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The Cost of High Availability

Now that you are able to setup session replication in Jelastic for Tomcat, GlassFish and Jetty web servers, you might be interested in how this great feature affects resource usage.

0 replies - 4809 views - 01/31/12 by Judah Johns in Articles

What is Functional Programming? Part 2, Currying

In my last post, I provided a list of concepts that I found to be characteristic of functional languages. We’ve talked bout the first three so far.  

1 replies - 3892 views - 10/30/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

What is Functional Programming? Part 3, Recursion

In the first post in this series, I provided a list of concepts that I found to be characteristic of functional languages. We’ve talked bout the first four so far.  

1 replies - 2424 views - 10/30/11 by Christopher Bennage in News

SlickEdit Released SlickEdit® 2011

SlickEdit 2011 is the premier cross-platform, multi-language code editor that gives programmers the ability to code in over 40 languages on 9 platforms including Windows®, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X®. New features and enhancements available in SlickEdit...

0 replies - 1583 views - 05/18/11 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Announcements

Maven Love and Hate

You get away from the large, complex build.xml scenario when you move from Ant to Maven, but depending on the software you're writing, you don't save on verbosity! Right?I'm a big fan of Maven, and I'm excited about Maven 3. To be fair I've not been using it...

18 replies - 7233 views - 09/24/10 by Alex Collins in Articles

Agile Intifada

This blog post was inspired by a link my friend sent me titled “Agile Ruined My Life” as well as a conversation with my friends/co-workers and just wanting to clear up a few things about my previous “Agile Dilemma” post. Some of this is taken...

15 replies - 4689 views - 09/19/10 by Ilya Sterin in Articles

The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way - Book Review

Clojure is a LISP implementation running on the JVM. Joy of Clojure by Michael Fogus and Chris Houser gives a thorough introduction into this wonderful language and offers a solid paradigm for...

2 replies - 4841 views - 09/01/10 by Andrzej Grzesik in Book Reviews

5 Java powered open source tools for your team

If you're a Java shop and want to ensure you can support your team's toolset, here are some pointers for the must-have tools we modern developers use day-to-day.Wikis

1 replies - 13344 views - 08/27/10 by Alex Collins in Articles

The key to being a good programmer

One blog topic that never seems to get old is what makes a good programmer, or how to be a good programmer, or what you can do to be a better programmer. The same activities are often listed as being the path to successful codesmithing, when really it is...

5 replies - 12567 views - 07/30/10 by Andy Gibson in News

Socket Communication in Client/Server Relationship

When writing java code for a Client or Server, using Sockets are the most efficient way to communicate between the client and server.  Sockets are flexible, sufficient, easy to implement, and they do not use a lot of network traffic. There are many reasons...

3 replies - 7247 views - 05/21/10 by Joseph Randolph in Articles

New Ways in Programming

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you could start implementing a programming and application execution environment from scratch? Challenge everything you know and all the ways things are done today?Are grammars actually a good basis...

1 replies - 6329 views - 05/13/10 by Niklas Mehner in Articles

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Flex 3 in Action

DZone and Manning Publications have partnered to bring you an exclusive chapter from 'Flex 3 in Action' (by Tariq Ahmed). This chapter covers ActionScript's core concepts. It discusses comments, variable types, operators, loops, conditions, arrays, and...

2 replies - 7081 views - 11/16/09 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Articles

Essential JavaFX

Essential JavaFX is a well written introduction to JavaFX. It is written in a conversational style and there's lots of diagrams and screen shots to break up the text and show you the results of...

5 replies - 10382 views - 09/25/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews

Programming Complexity - Art, Engineering or Monkey Work?

Aside from the fact that Oracle's Java Problem contains all kinds of factual and other errors (see the comments on the post) this sentence caught my eye in particular when referring to Java being "quite hard to work with" - "Then, as now, you...

6 replies - 7610 views - 05/01/09 by Scott Leberknight in News

Win Your Copy: Practical API Design: Confessions of a Java Framework Architect

“Practical API Design” is divided into three parts:In part one, Jaroslav describes the theories underlying his approach to API design and his reasons for writing “another design book.” This...

18 replies - 6540 views - 03/28/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Book Reviews