If you’re one of those hipster programmers who loves Clojure, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, or whatever,… [read]

The line between development and architecture is tricky. Some say it's fake,… [read]

Over the last month, I’ve been learning more and more about Vaadin.… [read]

The classic Java build tool, Apache Ant, just reached its next GA version update.  Ant 1.8 has improved directory scanning performance and better symbolic link cycle handling.… [read]

The line between software development and software architecture is a tricky one.… [read]

First of all I wanted to make the title of this post "HTML5 and Flash", but I know it's going to bait more readers if I say versus.… [read]

Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher talk about the new features in Groovy 1.7 and Grails 1.2, how Groovy and Grails are related to each other,… [read]

So you want Distributed, Scalable and Highly Available Cache? If yes, then this is the right place for you. The Terracotta Ehcache release has these features inbuilt.… [read]

If you know you think you know your objects from your arrays and your null from your undefined, here's a quiz for you from Perfection Kills.… [read]

The latest version of the JavaFX SDK is out and available from the usual JavaFX.com downloads page.… [read]

Sometimes in a Clojure file you just want some helper functions that shouldn’t be exposed outside the namespace. You can create a private function using the special defn- macro instead of defn.… [read]

The line between development and architecture is tricky. Some say it's fake,… [read]

We were looking for a small, inexpensive, and eco-friendly headless Linux server that would support some low traffic services like providing a Maven Repository (Nexus),… [read]

Last week I was searching examples while working in integrating OpenID in a Java Web Applications and I found a very recent article (January 27th) on the IBM developerWorks.… [read]

Google Buzz is yet another way to share photos, status updates, videos, news and more with friends and family. The best part is that it lets you start with your existing Gmail contacts...… [read]

We are very pleased to announce three new additions to the Relevance team: Chris Redinger: An Extreme, Test-Driven Software Developer, Christopher has been programming since the mid-90s,… [read]

Scrum Certification is one debate that refuses to die down. First, it was about the hollow nature of certification for which there was a comment “Pay the tuition, sit through a couple days of class,… [read]

This is a quick one. I had a map in Clojure and I needed a sorted version of it. Most commonly I’ve created maps in Clojure using the literal syntax: { }.… [read]