Rapid prototyping with Apache Derby and JRuby on Rails
Ruby on Rails has raised the bar in terms of rapid development of data-driven Web sites. The JRuby project is making Ruby faster and more scalable... more »
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Java SE Application Design With MVC
Umberto Zappia 
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What Is Model-View-Controller (MVC)? If you've programmed with graphical user interface (GUI) libraries in the past 10 years or so, you have likely... more »
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Next Generation Test Management System
Zephyr offers next-generation slick and affordable test management and collaboration capabilities that enable test teams to achieve enhanced levels of... more »
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Ten commandments for developers
In order that applications and operating system shall not drive users insane thou shall:
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An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented programming with JBoss AOP
This article will take a simple example, and use JBoss AOP to add to its behaviour, while explaining some of the core functionality of JBoss AOP. We... more »
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Nimbus UIManager UIDefaults
Nimbus is completely configured by properties in the UIManager defaults table. In my last blog I showed a simple example of how to skin a single... more »
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Can unit testing be a waste?
It is sometimes hard to start implementing new feature (or fix a bug) by writing an unit test even for a very agile and experienced developer, that's... more »
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Google Insights for Search: Competitive Intelligence Analysis
In the final post in this series we cover Google Insights from Search and go back to good old keywords and mining search behavior by our customers to... more »
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DJ Native Swing 0.9.6: Integrate Native Components from Other Libraries
DJ Native Swing is a great way to get a web browser, Flash player, multimedia player or an HTML editor in a Swing application. But until recently, it... more »
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Learn Adobe Air, Part 2: Build a Customer Management App
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In our previous tutorial, we created a personal notes storage database using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this tutorial, we’re going to explore the... more »
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PHP Bad Practice: Variable Reuse
Anyone who has worked with PHP knows that it is extremely permissive with variables and their types. There's no need to declare variables, not even at... more »
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Erlang is like Ruby in ‘02?
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"Erlang reminds me of Ruby during its early days”.I’ve heard this comment several times in the past few months from several of my friends and... more »
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Software Estimation is hard (right)?
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Martin Woodward has a great article on software estimation, why it is hard and what Agile brings to the table. The approach I have seen the most in... more »
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Making the A.I. Fortify Bottlenecks
Notice that purple has moved his line of towers forward. The A.I. dynamically adjusts its defensive frontier as conditions change in the game, and has... more »
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Flash and Silverlight: 3D Text Space
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This is one of the most stunning effect I experienced many years ago. The code is very simple, but yet astonishing. Both of the applications are made... more »
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Joomla on Glassfish
I'll show you in this article how to setup the CMS Joomla on Glassfish. We won't need Apache for this one. There are few ways to do PHP on a J2EE... more »
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Java Reflection: Annotations
This is text no. 7 in a series on Java Reflection. This text covers how to access annotations of classes, methods, parameters and fields at runtime... more »
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Handy SQL with IntelliJ IDEA
If a project you are working on requires referring to an SQL database, you can, actually, use one of the numerous SQL clients, or type commands in the... more »
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Can JavaFX make a play for rich Internet apps?
With its new JavaFX technology for rich Internet applications, Sun Microsystems hopes to leverage the strength of the Java development base and Java's... more »
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An open-source Spore Creature Creator-like game content creation framework?
Imagine if all game developers had access to a free set of tools like the Spore creature creator.
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A Better Applet Experience, Part 2: Poster Frames
In part one of this series I showed you how to set up a loading image, including an animated spinner gif. In this part I'll show you how use a... more »
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Free Text Messaging (SMS) API from Zeep Mobile - just launched
The Zeep Mobile SMS API allows any website to send and receive text messages (SMS) to and from it's users. There are no volume restrictions and the... more »
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IE8 & backward compatibility. What can I do?
In this blog entry Samiq writes about some of the new features of the just released IE8 Beta 2 and also explains how to deal with compatibility issues... more »
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Meta-Programming with Scala Part III: Partial function application
In my previous post about Meta-Programming with Scala I suspected that there was no way to express partial function application in Scala’s type... more »
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