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February 08, 2010
category: Developers
This is a quick blog to outline my upcoming job change and how it
affects JSR-310.
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February 08, 2010
category: Developers
We would love your input and suggestions to help us prioritize the development of existing and new features to best suit your tooling needs. Please help by filling out this five-minute survey!
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February 08, 2010
category: Java Technology
Yesterday I made my proposal submissions for Jazoon 2010 - as usual at the last minute, as now the call for paper is closed. Young speakers (under 26) wishing to make their first experience should recall they have got still time until April 4. ...
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February 07, 2010
category: Java Technology
Progressive Enhancement is a philosophy of web design - start with simple pages, and build them up based on the capabilities of the browser viewing the page. It’s related to (and in some ways, the opposite of) the idea of Graceful Degradation, ...
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February 06, 2010
category: Java Technology
For many years I am using XSLT now for a lot of tasks in both, development and runtime environments: Source generation, creating HTML from XML data, or even rendering SVG vector graphics...
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February 05, 2010
category: Java Technology
Erasure is a part of the way Java 5 implements generics, so the bytecode loses all the information about the generified types, only generating the proper type casts where appropriated. It's the thing that you scream against when you try to write...
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February 05, 2010
category: Java Technology
Content available at: http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/totd_120_deployment_descriptor_free
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February 05, 2010
category: Java Technology
This week's new java.net poll asks Does your company use an enterprise repository manager for development? A month ago we published John Ferguson Smart's article, Maven Repository Managers for the Enterprise. The larger the developer team,...
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February 05, 2010
category: Developers
For a fun Friday hack, this blog entry describes a program to generate a regular expression to recognize all the valid strings of integers in a given base, that is, a regular expression (regex) which accepts all in-range strings but rejects string...
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February 04, 2010
category: Java Technology
In this post I am going to sum up things I have learned while creating a fluent API (or internal DSL) in Java. I'll talk about the search API I created for my current position: it's not a toy problem, it's a real problem, which has ...
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February 04, 2010
category: Java Technology
Lots of people have opined on Apple's iPad, many deriding it's closed nature and lack of features. The thing is, those problems don't matter to most people. The iPad isn't for you or me. It's for everyone else. I'v...
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February 04, 2010
category: Java Technology
I will be in London next week, talking about "Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Bringing Developers and Testers Together" at Skills Matter.
"Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) are powerful techniques,...
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February 04, 2010
category: Java Technology
Louis Botterill attended the European RoadShow 2010 event in London this past Tuesday, and posted a very detailed set of notes titled GlassFish v3 and Java EE 6 Sun-Oracle roadshow - key notes. Thanks to Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine for pointing this o...
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