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James Sugrue06/16/10
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NetBeans 6.9: Essential for JavaFX Developers

The latest version of NetBean is now available for download. The big addition for this release is the JavaFX Composer, which provides a nice visual GUI builder for your GUI applications. Rapid UI development like this should really help with JavaFX adoption.

Charles Ditzel06/16/10
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NetBeans 6.9 IDE & Platform Released: 7 Videos

NetBeans IDE 6.9 is released and is now available. There is a video guided tour of NetBeans 6.9 which you can find here. Additionally, there are a number of new videos covering the new release -

Jakub Holý06/16/10
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Book: Real World Java EE Patterns – Rethinking Best Practices (Review & Digest)

I’d like to make you aware of the excellent book Real World Java EE Patterns – Rethinking Best Practices by Adam Bien (blog), a Java Champion and renowned consultant, software architect and Java EE standardization comitee member.

James Sugrue06/16/10
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Powering Mobile Applications With Exadel Flamingo

The mobile app industry is getting a lot of attention from software developers at the moment. I read that Exadel's Flamingo framework can be used for mobile applications recently, so I asked Max Katz from Exadel what it was all about. This could be just what...

Mitch Pronschinske06/15/10
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The 3 Things That Motivate Us

How do I motivate my developers? - is a question you hear all the time from managers who haven't been paying attention to the patterns found in many software development shops. Dan Pink has looked at much of the scientific research behind human...

kent tong06/15/10
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Applying Scala to solving real world problems: Making delegation super easy

In Java it is very common to write boring code like below to perform logging:public class Foo { private static Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Foo.class); public void m1() { logger.debug("..."); ... ...

Mitch Pronschinske06/15/10
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OpenCL 1.1 is Here

A release this week from the Khronos Group, a consortium responsible for maintaining open standards such as WebGL, OpenMAX, and OpenGL, marks another major step in parallel processing and GPU access over multiple platforms. OpenCL 1.1 (Open Computing...

James Sugrue06/15/10
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Design Patterns Uncovered: The Builder Pattern

Today's pattern is the Builder pattern,which allows for dynamic creation of objects based upon interchangable algorithms.

Giorgio Sironi06/15/10
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Testing web applications with Selenium

There is a common problem between many testing harnesses: they are different from the real client (in the case of web applications a browser). Zend_Test, HttpUnit and similar tools perform fake HTTP requests (that may go or not go over the TCP/IP stack), and...

Jean-Francois Arcand06/15/10
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Using Atmosphere's JQuery Plugin to Build Applications Supporting Both Websocket and Comet

Until all Browsers and WebServers properly support the Websocket protocol, it will be difficult to write portable applications. Not anymore, using the new JQuery Atmosphere Plugin which is able to auto-detect which transport (Websocket or Comet) to use...

Loiane Groner06/15/10
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Hibernate 3 Annotations Tutorial

This tutorial will walk through how to implement a hello world project using Hibernate Annotations and MySQL database.

Mitch Pronschinske06/14/10
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O/R Broker: A JDBC Framework for Scala (and Java)

With a minimalist API built for common everyday use cases, O/R Broker provides the functionality of a JDBC framework for Scala developers. Java developers can use the API for enforcing proper, optimal access (including stored procedure calls). The open...

Jared Richardson06/14/10
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Code Like Kudzu!

My technical brethren (and sistren) in the southern United States are probably more familiar with Kudzu than many of you, but it's a very fast growing type of vine. It's reputed to grow a foot a day when in perfect growing conditions. In the southern US, it...

Mitch Pronschinske06/14/10
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Apache Synapse Has New Config Model

An Apache Synapse committer and WSO2 software engineer Hiranya Jayathilaka has implemented a new configuration model for the latest Synapse build. Apache Synapse is a high-performance ESB and mediation engine that previously loaded entire mediation...

Lyndsey Clevesy06/14/10
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New Challenges in JDBC Usage Patterns

In this interview, Jesse Davis gives us an update on what's happening at the JDBC expert group in the JCP. Right now they're preparing for a maintenance...