Mitch Pronschinske04/08/10
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Lift 2.0 Revving Up

It's been over a year since the release of Lift 1.0. For those of you who've never heard of Lift, it's a powerful web framework for Scala and Java developers. There are only a handful of web frameworks for Scala and Lift is probably the most well-known. ...

Alex Tkachman04/08/10
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Groovy++ v0.2 Small version number but huge milestone

Today is very big day for Groovy++ team and me personally. Version 0.2 of Groovy++ is available now for download. Please go to http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/ and give it a try.Only (or already) 17 weeks ago we opened very first preview of Groovy++. It...

Lyndsey Clevesy04/08/10
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What Makes Peer Code Review an Agile Process?

We recently had the chance to catch up with Gregg Sporar, Senior Product Manager at Smart Bear Software, about peer code review as an Agile process.DZone: Can you give us a quick intro to yourself and your background?

Luca Garulli04/08/10
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Bucket/Key/Value Paradigm as a Replacement For Relational DBMS

This example demonstrates that it's possible and easy to use the Bucket/Key/Value approach to build a complex application. In this example we're going to compare this new approach with the classic Relational DBMS way. In this article we use Orient ...

Eric Hagan04/08/10
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Flex Expert on the Past, Present, and Future of RIA

Flex is being used in many important places you might not know about, like hospitals. Michael Labriola says that's because Flex has a thin client that brings a...

Jesse Davis04/08/10
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Has JDBC Kept up with Enterprise Requirements?

Part of the Java Standard Edition since the release of the Java Development Kit 1.1, the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API has become the industry standard for providing standards-based data access from Java. It allows you to have a single API into a...

Pete Brown04/08/10
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Creating Awesome Applications When You're Clueless

On a fairly regular basis, I get email or blog comments where someone will ask me how to create something they have zero experience with. Invariably, it's a project that is enormously complex. Poking a little fun (good naturedly, I'll add) the requests...

Peter Friese04/08/10
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OSGi & Servlets: A Happy Marriage

In this post, I'll show you how to create a simple OSGI-based servlet. Later, we will deploy this servlet to an Amazon EC 2 instance - this should be fun! First of all, some preliminary steps. We need to create a new OSGi project and add some dependencies:

Scott Lewis04/08/10
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OSGi Remote Services from ECF - Discovery

Released in Feb, ECF 3.2 has full support for the OSGi 4.2 remote services specification. As with any general technology, there are potentially many use cases for remoting OSGi services, and any given implementation won't support all those use cases. It's...

Misko Hevery04/08/10
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Move Over Java, I Have Fallen in Love With JavaScript

I spent the past year developing <angular/> in JavaScript (client) and Ruby on the server, and I have totally changed my opinion of dynamic languages, and I wanted to share some thought with you.

Eric Hagan04/07/10
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Scaling CI and Improving Build Management

Erin Curtis is the Director of Product Management at Electric Cloud, a company that provides build automation and management software. Before...

Mitch Pronschinske04/07/10
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VC Funding Down in 2009 for OSS, But There's Good News Too

The 451 Group released its data today regarding venture capital funding for open source software in 2009. As a result of the struggling world economy, open source VC funding took a hit last year with a drop in the number of deals and in the average size of...

Nitin Bharti04/07/10
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Taking Web Apps to the Desktop with AIR

AIR is a runtime that enables web developers to build and deploy desktop applications on Mac, Windows and Linux operating systems. In this presentation,...

Julian Simpson04/07/10
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Supporting Multiple Environments – Part 3

(part one and two) In this installment, I’m going to cover the configuration storage mechanism for this separate configuration jar approach.

James Sugrue04/07/10
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Converting PDF to HTML Using PDFBox

Over the past few days, while working on another project, I needed to covert PDF documents into HTML. I did the usual searches for tools, but as I'm sure you'll have noticed, the tools available don't get great results. But then, seeing as I'm a software...