Is development of CRUD apps faster with Grails than with Swing?
To make my point clear immediately at the beginning. I am not claiming that creation of fat rich client is easier in some web framework than with Java... more »
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And the Winners Are... MyEclipse 6.5 License Winners
Well, after 2700 reads of the announcement and 18 comments, Genuitec and DZone are happy to announce the winners of the five licenses. And the winners... more »
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First Look: Google Test Framework Simplifies Testing
Software Testing is probably one of the most boring and tedious task to a lot of people, but there are still people like me who love writing unit... more »
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Top 5 Things to Verify About a Shared Host Before Buying
Shared hosts offer great features and prices for both new webmasters just starting out and seasoned webmasters. The best feature is typically the... more »
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MySQL with .NET using ODBC
How-to connect to MySQL in .NET using ODBC Drivers
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Performance improvements in J2SE 6
One of the principal design centers of J2SE 6(Mustang) was to yield improved performance and scalability. This has been brought about mostly by the... more »
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It's not the Gates, it's the bars
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of... more »
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Designing for Mobile Interfaces
Designing for mobile interfaces can be difficult for a variety of reasons. Here are few tips and hints to consider when designing for mobile... more »
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Pure Python Fibonacci Numbers
A while back, I came across this post, in which the author implements a couple of different algorithms to generate Fibonacci numbers in Python. What... more »
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Google gives away free Web application security scanner
Google has released for free one of its internal tools used for testing the security of Web-based applications. Ratproxy, released under an Apache 2.0... more »
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John Hicks Future of Web Apps Presentation
John Hicks of HicksDesign gave an excellent speech at the most recent Future of Web Design Conference. He titles the presentation “Design to... more »
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Recovering Innodb table Corruption
Assume you're running MySQL with Innodb tables and you've got crappy hardware, driver bug, kernel bug, unlucky power failure or some rare MySQL bug... more »
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Come On, Microsoft, Isn’t This a Little Ridiculous?
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I started this blog last month with a series of posts on Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop, a new product released on Code Gallery and which can... more »
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Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap
mswatcher via blog.mountaingoatsoftware.com
In the early days we promoted agile only for small teams because that was where it originated. We had plenty of experience to say that agile worked... more »
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30 Using Google Charts API
Are you building a web app or working on a blog or website and you need a beautiful way to display data? As usual, Google is here to help - for free. ... more »
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A Better Static Approach for Utility Classes
When writing utility classes it is very easy to go down on the path of writing code that can never be changed later on because of static functions... more »
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Web Services with Mule, CXF, and Spring
Since it seems like everything is going the way of SOA and Web Services these days, it's always nice to have some practical examples of how to quickly... more »
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ETL: Talend vs. Kettle (Pentaho PDI)
As ETL tools they take different approaches, Kettle is a meta data driven framework (which is in turn tightly integrated into an even larger BI... more »
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Why Can't Microsoft Ship Open Source Software?
In Codeplex wastes six months reinventing wheels, Ryan Davis has a bone to pick with Microsoft:
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Half a Year in Review - The Top Ten Ruby and Rails Happenings in '08
The top 10 happenings in the Ruby and Rails worlds for the first half of 2008. Post a comment if we missed anything.
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Using dictionaries rather than complex if-elif-else clauses
Lately, I’ve been using dictionaries as a dispatching mechanism. It seems especially elegant when I face some fairly elaborate switching logic.
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The Open Road: java.nio.file
Java is a cross-platform language and environment. However, the Java VM itself needs to communicate with the native processor, operating system, and... more »
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Kill Your Users Table
It's time to rethink how we store user information. You don't need as much as you think you do.
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Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google
Jeff Sutherland talks about his visit at Google to do an analysis of Google's first implementation of Scrum. He tells how Google started with no... more »
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