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  • JavaOne Sessions Schedule Completed - First Impression, Some Criticism
    published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:52:15 +0000
    Last week I managed to schedule sessions I would like to attend. The topics are interesting and technical - really looking forward to it. Product pitches are non existent - at least I didn't found any. From the t...
  • Some Hands on with JEE6/JSF2
    published on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 04:55:57 +0000
    I have been doing JSF since 2004. I blogged for a long time on here about some of the shortcomings of JSF 1.x, but overall, have always sustained that a flawed framework is better than a tinkertoy one that is not rea...
  • Spring v. RedHat v. Oracle
    published on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:46:30 +0000
    Remember when monster movies jumped the shark they did that battle of all monsters movie where Gamera came flying in on Godzilla vs. Baby Kong? Was like a monster version of a Vegas drag show. The Java world is rea...
  • ExtJS, Spring MVC 3 and Hibernate 3.5: CRUD DataGrid Example
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:49:24 +0000
    This tutorial will walk through how to implement a CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) DataGrid using ExtJS, Spring MVC 3 and Hibernate 3.5. What do we usually want to do with data? ...
  • First Quick Look at CDI (of JEE6)
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:46:37 +0000
    The good news is that you can have a parameterized constructor (one). The docs (at least the Weld docs) tell us that this allows us to have immutable objects. A builder (a la Bloch?s from EJ2) would have been better, but...
  • Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:19 +0000
    Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k new activations of iOS devices every day.  Jobs said that Apple ...
  • Daily Dose - Android Doesn't Count Upgrades as Activations Either
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:00:19 +0000
    Google responded to Steve Jobs' implications at the iPod/Apple TV/iOS presentation this week.   At the presentation he said that Apple estimates about 230k new activations of iOS devices every day.  Jobs said that Apple ...
  • So What Are You Waiting For? GO BANANAS!
    published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:26:13 +0000
    Welcome to the seventh and final episode of The Agile Guerilla series. The focus of this series of articles is to to help you introduce change, specifically moving to agility, into your organization from the grassroots l...
  • IDE 2.0: The Age of Intelligent IDEs
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:49:30 +0000
    The latest innovation in the Eclipse space that I'd like to share with you is Code Recommenders. Already available as a plugin for Eclipse, Code Recommenders provides intelligent code completion. Rather than giving you a...
  • Implementing a Tag-Cloud App on Google App Engine with JDO + Security + Groovy Server Pages
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:48:34 +0000
    This article introduces the steps involved in making a web application for Google App Engine platform that uses Google?s persistence and security infrastructure. The application for demonstration is a basic tag-cloud imp...
  • Context Matters When Discussing Frameworks
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:45:42 +0000
    As if web framework religious discussions weren?t annoying enough, one thing that I always think is missing from such debates is context regarding the type of application being developed. It?s like discussing the b...
  • Clojure: Mocking
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:40:56 +0000
    An introduction to clojure.test is easy, but it doesn't take long before you feel like you need a mocking framework. As far as I know, you have 3 options. James Sugrue...
  • Daily Dose - Release Candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:08 +0000
    After four months in beta, the first release candidate of the open source database, PostgreSQL, is ready for download.  PostgreSQL 9.0 includes some awesome features like Hot Standby and Steaming Replication.  The develo...
  • Daily Dose - Release Candidate for PostgreSQL 9.0
    published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:08 +0000
    After four months in beta, the first release candidate of the open source database, PostgreSQL, is ready for download.  PostgreSQL 9.0 includes some awesome features like Hot Standby and Steaming Replication.  The develo...
  • The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way - Book Review
    published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:42:29 +0000
    ISBN or ASIN:  1935182641 Book Author(s):  Michael Fogus ...