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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Making the A.I. Fortify Bottlenecks
Thierry.Lefort 
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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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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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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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The Use of Java in Real Time and Mission Critical Application to Support the Warfighter and the IC
Hello, my name is Sam Ceccola, I have been involved with use of Java technologies in the industry and the government communities since 1998. For me... more »
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Distributing Air Applications in a clean, easy way
Tutorial on how to distribute AIR Applications to people that never heard of it. How to avoid to force user to install two things (AIR Runtime and the... more »
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User Stories: Three Steps to Better Presentations
As a Scrum Coach, I often take on the role of Evangelist. Monday afternoon, I explained Scrum to the Swiss Java User Group[1]. Although not my first... more »
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EJB 3.0 and Spring 2.5
Why is it that developers from these two communities don't like to see eye to eye? I have been using both Spring from its inception, and EJB's from... more »
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Running an ANT script in a .bat/.cmd file under Windows
This article explains how to run an ANT script in a .bat or a .cmd file under Windows.
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Getting and Setting Environment variables in C#
Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can... more »
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Wrapping (evil)checked exceptions in Java
There are various reasons when we have to wrap java exceptions. Often those reasons are called: Checked Exceptions. According to the definition there... more »
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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage
There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is... more »
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Data filtering using PHP's filter functions
Using PHP's filter_* functions, we can validate and sanitize data types, URLs, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, strip bad characters, and more, all... more »
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Getting Starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
A short screencast on getting starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
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Java run-time monitoring, Part 2: Postcompilation instrumentation and performance monitoring
Abhay Bakshi via ibm.com
"Here in Part 2, I focus on methods of instrumenting Java classes and resources without modifying the original source code."
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Getting Started with JCODER
Today Java is used widely across the internet but it is also an invisible force behind many of the applications and devises that power our day-to-day... more »
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Creativity as the Root of Software Development
The basic idea of writing software is to produce code that has not been produced before. Techniques like object-orientation, component-based design,... more »
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Using Amazon S3 to backup Media Temple’s Grid (gs)
Thierry.Lefort via christinawarren.com
Proper backups are like eating your vegetables -- we all say we'll do it and that it is a good idea, but it is so much easier NOT to do it and eat... more »
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Java & Netbeans: Overriding paint to customize GUI components
I found that it’s somewhat tricky to override GUI components methods with Netbeans, because the IDE automatically generates the code needed for the... more »
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Java run-time monitoring, Part 3: Monitoring performance and availability of an application's ecosystem
Abhay Bakshi via ibm.com
"In this final installment, I widen the focus to present techniques for gathering performance and availability data from the application's... more »
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How to install and configure a Glassfish cluster
bloid via random-byte.blogspot.com
In the last days I tried to install and configure a Glassfish and a Liferay cluster for a client. From what I see in Internet is a lot of "old"... more »
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Database Algorithm: Sequencing Dependencies
Some database applications require you to perform a series of actions where you know only that some actions must be performed before others. Before... more »
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Converting Ext Javascript to jQuery
Provides examples of how to convert code that uses the Ext-JS library to jQuery.
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