Blog entry describing how to activate the new look and feel in Eclipse e4. [read]

We found this great blog post about the top 10 myths surrounding Maven.  The article offers in depth analysis of these Maven myths, a thorough debunking of each one,… [read]

This weekend I spent some time playing around with the Google Chrome Extensions API (aka plugin API). I've been kicking some ideas around for a browser plugin,… [read]

The Maven team has gone to the ends of the earth to ensure backward compatibility, improve usability, increase performance, allow safe embedding,… [read]

It’s only been a few days since the Mockito 1.8.3 release and I have to say that for a minor release there’s a lot I like about it!… [read]

Today I had a new coworker tell me that I really couldn’t comment on his method of organizing source code because I hadn’t used it.… [read]

Introduction When it came time for me to tackle my first web service implementation I ran into a lot of problems.… [read]

Over the past 3 weeks, I built a cluster running Eucalyptus + Terracotta. Today,… [read]

The .NET Framework has scored many points with developers over its eight years of existence,… [read]

In Spring framework, the JdbcTemplate and JdbcDaoSupport classes are used to simplify the overall database operation processes. The last tutorial,… [read]

The final release of JBoss Tools 3.1 is here! [Embedded Image] 3.… [read]

Welcome to wonderful world of Rock n Roll. Rock bands, a lot of times, are frowned upon by most traditional people. Other times they are revered by young rebels. Doesn't matter. The best bands,… [read]

One source had confirmed that Twitter was working with the NoSQL data store, Cassandra, late last year.… [read]

A common problem with typecasting a lazy loaded Hibernate entity to its child is a ClassCastException.… [read]

Mark Wilden pointed me to a post he's written about his experience pair programming at Pivotal Labs where he makes some interesting although not uncommon observations. When you pair program,… [read]

Good old Kangax has been playing with HTML minification and has shared his new tool in an early stage. What does it do?… [read]

Simon Phipps' Last Day at Sun���� [read]

John has written a blog entry (1st part) relating our programming experience of using Vaadin for developing BlackBeltFactory. [read]

How to send large files that are too big for email. [read]

Recently, I work on a warehouse optimization project. On interesting problem is to select an optimal pick tour for the pick agent,… [read]

From Java EE to Google App Engine to GigaSpaces, the idea of developing against a middleware or "infrastructure" API is well established in the Java world.… [read]

As I previously mentioned in “Free lunches, mousetraps and the Actor model“, Edward A.… [read]

I wonder how feasible it is for Google since they have not been sued to launch a Search for Prior Art on Apple’s Patents campaign?… [read]

As web developers, we live in an arranged marriage with JavaScript. What is a Rubyist to do? Use JavaScript as a compile target? Abstract it away on the server? With JRuby,… [read]

Here in the Spring team, we are currently preparing for a busy next week: We have a three-day team meeting coming up from March 15th to 17th,… [read]

So why am I trashing my own app UI design? Well, with the ad space of 100px I get this: As you can see the ad space size does not play well as far as taking up too much space.… [read]

Entry posted to my new blog. [read]

During the iPad presentation,… [read]

This is a presentation I and my colleague Anders Schau Knatten held at an internal software seminar this February. It was meant to cover both some introductory material,… [read]

Atlassian currently is in the process of migrating their employees from Zimbra to Google Apps to reflect their recent move to integrate JIRA Studio, their hosed SDL package,… [read]

I [Luke Daley] released a new version of the Grails JMS plugin (0.5) over the weekend.… [read]

M. Tim Jones at developerWorks has written an articles on the building blocks for infrastructure as a service.… [read]

Last month, I wrote a tutorial that demonstrates how to integrate Terrcotta Ehcache and the Spring PetClinic application. Since then, Terracotta has released Terracotta 3.2.1 and Ehcache 2.0,… [read]

Today we are witnessing a great bit of excitement with the NoSQL movement. Call it NoSQL (~SQL) or NOSQL (Not Only SQL), the movement has a mission.… [read]

The top posts on CodeMonkeyism about startups and CTOs: Development Dream Teams 6 reasons why my VC funded startup did fail American vs.… [read]

Chris Riley presents security issues threatening service based systems which could be attacked on the transport or the message layer.… [read]

Recently, we've been working hard on a solution to improve the testability of Java EE, and particularly JBoss AS. I'm pleased to say that a critical piece of puzzle, Arqullian, is now available.… [read]

Apple today released the iPad/iPhone OS 3.2 Beta 4 SDK.  The build 10M2144 is 2.5GB and can be downloaded from developer.apple.com/iphone.… [read]

What's your hiring experience like?  How many "hoops" do you make candidates go through?  Why do you make them go through them?… [read]

This article shows you step by step how to cache your entire tomcat web application with Squid reverse Proxy without writing any Java code. James Sugrue [read]

Weld Extensions is set of portable services and utility classes for CDI which make up a good base layer for extension and application development.… [read]

The patent office just ended a reexamination of Amazon’s one click patent up holding it’s claim.… [read]

Harmony is a new drawing tool, a HTML5/Canvas experiment with great potential. It provides some unique brush styles, and can produce some great-looking charcoal pencil style sketches,… [read]

dir /s /b>FileList.txt Thanks – http://txt.binnyva.com/2007/09/listing-all-files-recursively-in-windows/ [read]

I'm happy to announce the first alpha release of Arquillian, a framework for running tests in the container. If you want to read more about Arquillian's mission,… [read]

Best Jobs in America -------------------------------- twitter.com/rajneeshgarg rgarg.blogspot.com -------------------------------- [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://rgarg.… [read]

Welcome to the roundup of blog posts and pages that mentioned Sonar last month… Measuring code quality with Sonar By Allard Buijze, 26 February 2010 “At JTeam,… [read]

I want to spend a moment introducing you to a new initiative we're undertaking for the Seam and Weld projects.… [read]

In the very near future, SpringSource tc Server 2.0™ will be released including a new Spring Edition,… [read]

According to this story, several cable providers are already making plans to help contribute towards this goal. [read]

After working in software development for a number of years, one tends to build up a repository of useful code examples and utilities.… [read]

This video demonstrates how easy it is to add dependencies using m2eclipse.    Because m2eclipse understands how to interact with a repository index,… [read]

GroovyServ makes startup time quicker, by pre-invoking groovy as a TCP/IP server. (If you know gnuserv/gnuclient, this is like that.) In the case of scripting in dynamic-type languages,… [read]

Today's entry in the Android multi-touch series is a short one. In order to move and zoom the image we’ll use a neat little feature on the ImageView class called matrix transformation.… [read]

Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal have created a fun example of various CSS tweaks that you can make, and see the results instantly. CSS3, Please!… [read]

A new MITRE whitepaper documents a variety of best practices and key characteristics for a successful SOA implementation. By Boris Lublinsky [read]

Today SpringSource announced their plans to release a new version of the popular SpringSource tc Server™ product, this time with a special Spring Edition.… [read]

Top 5 Reasons to Attend the New Ehcache Webinar: 1. You want to watch Greg walk through the Spring Pet Clinic as an application example and show us how to tune it for maximum performance,… [read]

The above gives you an idea of what 100px ad space takes up in a UI as my free version of Gallerie will be carrying ads.… [read]

Memory barriers, or fences, are a set of processor instructions used to apply ordering limitations on memory operations.… [read]

Common Complaint: "This was the nth time that someone was up in arms that [X] was broken ... PL/SQL that ... has one function that is over 1,500 lines of [code].… [read]

VMware ESX server: This is a popular virtualization solution from VMware. Installs on a ‘bare metal’, allows multiple OSs and their applications to run in VMs.… [read]

Few days ago Apple filed 4 patents about methods of cooling its devices.… [read]

Today an important update of the Grails Neo4j plugin has been released. Neo4j is a graph database, it’s main concepts are described in brevity in a previous post.… [read]

9to5mac found several interesting facts from Apple’s iPad commercial.The first one is about iBookstore pricing. They to be below hardcover books, audiobook,… [read]

SpringSource has announced an updated TC Server Spring Edition. TC Server is SpringSource's Tomcat-based offering with enhanced monitoring and cloud provisioning capabilities.… [read]

I [Tomás Lin] will outline some of the lessons learned and share tips and ideas about enabling the Grails stack within large Spring Applications.… [read]

Over the Reloading Java Classes (RJC) article series, we’ve examined how class reloading happens, from objects and classloaders to application servers and solutions that reduce Turnaround.… [read]

SpringSource have just announced tcServer Spring Edition, giving develpers and operators better visibility into their Spring applications deployed into cloud environments. tcServer,… [read]

Chinese companies are producing iPad clones that will have Windows 7 OS pre-installed on it.… [read]

A small think appeared to me today, regarding Netbeans. I noticed that when I run a test for a single file (Right-click on the file, then Test): The first time the test was running ok,… [read]

New to XAP.NET 7.1 is the service grid admin API. This API is very vast and provides capabilities for managing the entire GigaSpaces environment in a simple fashion.… [read]

see http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/ [read]

This talk investigates technical issues encountered when moving to an Agile process. How will your codebase react to an increasing level of change?… [read]

Gradle Inc, die Firma hinter dem gleichnamigen Open-Source-Buildsystem und JFrog, Anbieter des Artifactory Repository Managers, wollen k�nftig enger zusammenarbeiten.… [read]

Entry posted to my new blog. [read]

Cache your entire Java website as static HTML files stored in memory or disk without writing additional Java code by using free and open source tool Squid.… [read]

James Gosling sent out a reminder asking people to Submit your JavaOne abstracts! Yes, JavaOne is indeed happening, and if you want to participate via presenting a session,… [read]

This post briefly describes the script language support in Firebase. Now you can easily write multiplayer games in Ruby, Groovy, Python and other script languages! [read]

Business Process Management (BPM) has been around in one guise or another for quite a while now and most people have had some exposure to its many facets.  With so much promised,… [read]

How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It by Patricia Love, Steven Stosny (61)Buy new: $14.99 $10.19 40 used & new from $7.65(Ranking is updated hourly.… [read]

The top posts on CodeMonkeyism about startups and CTOs: Development Dream Teams 6 reasons why my VC funded startup did fail American vs.… [read]

When you are familar with the Oracle Database and Middleware stack, chances are that you came across the Enterprise Manager.… [read]

In 2009 I attended the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Enterprise-Level Research Informatics in the Health Sciences Symposium at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).… [read]

First, let me state that I don't typically write this sort of reviews. This time however, I had to create a shout-out because Steve Garfield nails web video with Get Seen.… [read]

One of the areas I'm keen to improve in the next version of JAX-RS is link creation. JAX-RS already offers UriBuilder but I think an annotation driven approach could save a lot of repetitive coding.… [read]

James Gosling sent out a reminder asking people to Submit your JavaOne abstracts! Yes, JavaOne is indeed happening, and if you want to participate via presenting a session,… [read]

SpringSource have just announced tcServer Spring Edition, giving develpers and operators better visibility into their Spring applications deployed into cloud environments. tcServer,… [read]

Here we have aN exciting sms servises as an bukl sms GLOBALBULKSMS (http://www.globalbulksms.com) [read]

SpringSource has announced an updated TC Server Spring Edition. TC Server is SpringSource's Tomcat-based offering with enhanced monitoring and cloud provisioning capabilities.… [read]

Peter Lubbers and Frank Greco's article HTML5 Web Sockets: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web has been published in SOA World Magazine. Check it out: http://soa.sys-con.com/node/1315473 [read]

Here we have aN exciting sms servises as an bukl sms GLOBALBULKSMS (http://www.globalbulksms.com) [read]

One of the areas I'm keen to improve in the next version of JAX-RS is link creation. JAX-RS already offers UriBuilder but I think an annotation driven approach could save a lot of repetitive coding.… [read]

HP confirmed that their slate PC can run Adobe flash and Air applications and emphasized it with a little bit provocative notes in their new ads:“Complete Internet -- including … [read]

I never find it very easy to try to capture the atmosphere during a conference, the presenting part, the presentations or the discussions, for example, you could have with the presenters.… [read]

Apple recently released iPad/iPhone OS 3.2 Beta 4 to developers. Let’s see what’s new:1. Application “Photos” has been improved.… [read]

I don't have the time I used to for reading stacks of magazines and journals. However, thanks to the UCLA kitchen magazine pile, I happened to pick up an issue of the IBM Systems Journal,… [read]

The patent office just ended a reexamination of Amazon’s one click patent up holding it’s claim.… [read]

After a long hiatus from UCLA, Duke returned in the form of the UCLA Java User Group. I'm not sure how long it has really been since a Java User Group haunted the halls of UCLA.… [read]

Now that the Layar Augmented Reality Browser has been released on the iPhone, I'd appreciate your help in finding Frosty the augmented-reality snowman (or would that be iPhrosty)?… [read]

I don't have the time I used to for reading stacks of magazines and journals. However, thanks to the UCLA kitchen magazine pile, I happened to pick up an issue of the IBM Systems Journal,… [read]

After a long hiatus from UCLA, Duke returned in the form of the UCLA Java User Group. I'm not sure how long it has really been since a Java User Group haunted the halls of UCLA.… [read]

In the Overview and Frequently Asked Questions for the Developer Community located on the Oracle website, there rests the following statement (as of Feb. 23, 2010): "Yes,… [read]

UCLA's Visualization Portal is truly remarkable. Equally remarkable is one of its primary developers and managers, Kejian Jin. Among his projects are vrNav, a 3D VR simulation program,… [read]

In the intervening years since that expression prompted a ‘verdict’ that Scala was too difficult for us regular folks, a lot of us have written a heck of a lot of Scala. We had to make implicit.… [read]

It is almost Spring so time for a quick special for everybody that registers before Spring starts March 20, 2010!… [read]

Over the past few months I've blogged on various monitoring and alerting topics for Sun Storage 7000 Appliances. Besides my favorite of the blogs (Tweeting your Sun Storage 7000 Appliance Alerts),… [read]

In the Overview and Frequently Asked Questions for the Developer Community located on the Oracle website, there rests the following statement (as of Feb. 23, 2010): "Yes,… [read]

The release of 2010.Q1 for Sun Storage 7000 Appliances brings a wide variety of new features to the appliance family,… [read]

  Episodio 5 Temporada 1 Les hacemos entrega de una nueva edición de este su podcast favorito de Groovy & Grails. En esta ocasión hablamos de la sintaxis de Groovy y algunas..… [read]

Register now! Save $100! Space is limited! http://us.gr8conf.org/registration/index GR8 in the US is a one day conference dedicated to the software language Groovy, software development fram..… [read]

UCLA's Visualization Portal is truly remarkable. Equally remarkable is one of its primary developers and managers, Kejian Jin. Among his projects are vrNav, a 3D VR simulation program,… [read]

Con motivo del lanzamiento de Griffon 0.3,… [read]

eXo Platform, the company being eXo Portal and eXo CMS, has brought in $6 million in a first round of funding. As per the press release, the objective is to strengthen sales and marketing in US.… [read]

Johnathan Schwartz, the former CEO of Sun recently said what he couldn't say about Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when he was with the company.  "I feel for Google," said Schwartz,… [read]

In a day-to-day life the emails are occupied our life.If we can send our mails by using our java code without help of browser how we feel?This article do this.… [read]

Hi all, Our next meeting is Wednesday March 24 at 6 p.m.  We meet at the usual location: the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.… [read]

In 2009 I attended the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) Enterprise-Level Research Informatics in the Health Sciences Symposium at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).… [read]