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Posted Monday, June 18, 2007
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Posted Friday, June 15, 2007
Geography was always a let down for me in school. It was like history. It could be so interesting, but the teachers somehow managed to skirt the interesting topics, and instead have you learning ina
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Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007
I am finding that more and more little applications that I have use Google Spreadsheets to store some data that I use in an Ajax app. After using the core API, you find yourself looking at fun
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Posted Wednesday, June 13, 2007
I have been waiting for this for awhile. You can now create the list of sites for a custom search engine on the fly.
This search below should search through my blogroll on the left (which I never update but that is another issue to do w
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Posted Monday, June 11, 2007
This was an obvious step. Adobe has had to port WebKit to Windows for Apollo^H^H^H^H^H^H AIR. Apple had to port some of
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Posted Sunday, June 10, 2007
A 1.0 release is a major decision, and you can do it too soon, or too late.
I am glad that we a
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Posted Thursday, June 7, 2007
The good folks put together footage from around the world on Google Developer Day 2007.
They even put in a cameo with me in it. Bonus points to anyone
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Posted Wednesday, June 6, 2007
I am really torn on the iPhone. I do want one. It looks like they are changing their tune on an SDK (sounds like Flash) so we will see cool third party a
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Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2007
I disagree with Charlie on one point:
This is a good friend's belief, but he's won me over: we don't believe Microsoft would ever willingly allow IronRuby to get to the point of running Rails, since that would directly compete with their A
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Posted Tuesday, June 5, 2007
I got into another "chat" with someone who was mocking Rails due to the fact that he keeps seeing a cat when he tries to use Twitter.
"This app is slow, therefore Rails can't scale"
This is an old argument of course.
The problem is that
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Posted Monday, June 4, 2007
Ola Bini (JRuby and ThoughtWorks) has written about the importance of Iron Ruby and how he fears it is going to take forever unless Microsoft changes how they do open source:
For example, what is a compliant Ruby implementation? Since there
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Presentations
Our build systems have migrated from make to Ant. While Ant does a good job in many ways, is it the right tool for the job? This session talks about taking builds to the next level, looking at tools such as Maven to make your life easier.
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What? Another programming language? Are you kidding me?
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Java Data Objects offers a standard model for transparent persistence (or close to it). The 2.0 version of the specification has given us many new features.
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Rules engines are powerful beasts which allow you to program in a way in which you specific rules and facts, rather than a linear set of instructions.
Learn about how you can use Rules Engines in Java development to take care of complicated problems.
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Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) has become a hot topic for enterprise development, with recent news of support by IBM, JBoss, BEA, Oracle, Eclipse, and IntelliJ.
Behind the news headlines, however, are critical questions: How real is AOP for the enter
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What do we really mean by "performance" and "scalability"? This talk gets into the meat of problems which cause our applications to degrade. We will focus on issues such as problems caused by the database being a bottleneck for our application, and see ho
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Web applications have traditionally been a sort of Faustian bargain, yielding the high-quality user experience that desktop applications can deliver in exchange for incredibly easy deployment and lower support costs.
With Ajax we can get a lot of the bes
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TheServerSide.com has gone through many changes over the years. This case study talk goes over the technical problems that occured when management came in and told everyone that we would have to scale the community site across application servers from mul
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JUGCentral.com is a new user group community site, sponsored by No Fluff Just Stuff and Javalobby.
The site was built with the new 'Better, Faster, Lighter' technology stack: WebWork2 as the web framework, SiteMesh as the look and feel decorator, Spring
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Many web frameworks suffer from being tightly coupled to the Servlet spec when it is not necessary, especially Struts. This makes both unit testing your Actions and reusing them outside a web application very difficult or impossible. With WebWork 2.
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The Apache Beehive project came out of BEA, and is starting to thrive. The goals of Beehive are to make J2EE programming easier by building a simple object model on top of J2EE. Using the new JSR-175 and JSR-181 metadata annotations Beehive reduces the co
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