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Václav Pech06/25/10
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Memoize Groovy functions with GPars

Once again I looked over the fence into the Clojure garden for inspiration and came back attracted by the memoize function, which, simply put, enables caching of function's return values. You call a function once - it will do...

Mitch Pronschinske06/24/10
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Survey: Devs Favor Android in the Long-Term; iOS Now

A couple of interesting stats have come out of last quarter's Appcelerator survey, which was released today.  The makers of the Titanium framework polled its mobile developers and found that more of them favor Android's prosperity in the long term over the...

Mitch Pronschinske06/24/10
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Terracotta 3.3, Ehcache 2.2 Betas Go Live Tonight!

This news came down today through the Twitter stream with a few links and tidbits of info to share.  Terracotta and their Ehcache, Hibernate, and Quartz products are still on a roll with speedy releases coming almost on a monthly basis.  You can grab the...

Mitch Pronschinske06/24/10
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Open Source Community Gets To Taste Froyo

Android app developers were reminded again this week about why they like to write code for Google's platform rather than Apple's.  The Android developers at Google just released the source code for Android 2.2 "Froyo," and the coders who download...

Gojko Adzic06/24/10
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Domain driven design redefined

At the DDD Exchange 2010 mini-conference in London, Eric Evans spoke about emerging themes in the domain driven design community. Six years after the DDD book was published, Evans said that he can now define it more precisely than before.

Masoud Kalali06/24/10
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Introducing NIO.2 (JSR 203) Part 3: File System Attributes and Permissions support in NIO.2

In two previous entries I covered Introducing NIO.2 (JSR 203) Part 1: What are new features?  and Introducing NIO.2 (JSR 203) Part 2: The Basics  In this entry I will discuss Attributes introduced in NIO.2. Using attributes we can read platform specific...

James Sugrue06/24/10
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Eclipse Helios Release Leaves Java Developers Spoilt for Choice

Yesterday's release of Helios shows how Java developers are now truly spoilt for choice when it comes to IDEs. Following on the NetBeans 6.9 release last week, Eclipse 3.6 is the most complete release so far, incorporating 39 projects.

Mark Needham06/24/10
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Leadership and Software Teams: Some Thoughts

Roy Osherove wrote a post about a month ago describing the different maturity levels of software teams and the strategies that he uses when leading each of these which I found quite interesting. He describes the following states of maturity for a team:

Max Katz06/24/10
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The "Mobilization" of Enterprise Applications with Exadel Flamingo

Mobile technologies have taken markets by storm. Every day we hear news about new smartphones and gadgets, new features, operating systems, vendor alliances, and various mega-wars. The coming generation of smartphones promises a pack of new features, which...

Mitch Pronschinske06/24/10
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Tasktop Pro 1.7 Arrives with Helios

DZone recently spoke with Mylyn founder Mik Kirsten, who told us that today, while the Eclipse platform gets a whole bunch of updates (including updates for Mylyn) he'd be announcing a new version of Tasktop Pro and Tasktop Enterprise.  The new Tasktop Pro...

Mitch Pronschinske06/23/10
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Git in Eclipse

With today's release of Helios (Eclipse 3.6), the developers of EGit and JGit have finalized (a week early) version 0.8.4 for the Eclipse platform update.  The incubating Git support in Eclipse was ranked #2 among new 3.6 platform additions by developer Ian...

Eric Hagan06/23/10
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Video: Three Open Source Projects

Shawn Hartsock currently works on PNG-J, which is a pure Java re-implementation of the PNG libraries.  He is also working on a QR plugin for Grails, which is...

Ian Skerrett06/23/10
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Helios: The Train Has Arrived

The Eclipse Helios release is now available for download.  Each year I am amazed how the Eclipse community is release on such a predictable schedule.  Congratulations to all that help make it happen.

Eric Hagan06/23/10
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Video: Domain object "mangling" in Grails

In the Grails community, they're trying to figure out how to merge current view technologies (e.g. jQuery, jQueryUI, Google Widgets) with the Grails...

Julian Simpson06/23/10
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Should you move to Maven 2?

I’ve seen many a company try to migrate from Ant to Maven with varied success.  There is a change in mindset that has to come about when making the transition.  Here are some of the highlights.

"Starting from scratch" is seductive but disease ridden
-Pithy Advice for Programmers