RubyMine 2.0 Shines with Refactoring
JetBrains gained a lot of attention when they released an open source version of thier IntelliJ IDEA development platform. For Ruby and Ruby on Rails... more »
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Spring DM 2.0 moves to Eclipse.org as part of the OSGi gemini project
As part of the Eclipse Gemini project, Spring Dynamic Modules will be moving to Eclipse.org where it will continue to be developed and to track... more »
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jQuery for Beginners: Making Your Website Cool
To complement the new jQuery lesson series I thought I’d just write an article on what exactly jQuery is, and how it can really help your website... more »
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More Procedures in Software Configuration Management
A recent polls shows that people are not using more tools for software configuration management, but have stricter procedures. Continuous integration... more »
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How to easily create advanced html tables using TableGear
Tables are a very important part of HTML, but they can also be a pain to deal with. Using TableGear, we can create dynamic tables that you can edit... more »
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Performance Counters help pinpoint significant performance improvement in db4o Deep Prefetching
db4o Deep Prefetching for C/S mode is examined via runtime statistics (a facility that allow you to track db4o behavior). (Even if you don't use db4o... more »
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Charts in JSF using Primefaces
This article specifies the steps to create the commonly used charts in a JSF application with the use of Primefaces.
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Database Connections in Java
Before giving structures, we need to notice a little detail about making database connections in Java. All database connections must be stated in try... more »
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Book Review: Debug It! (Paul Butcher, Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Paul asked me to review this, his first book, and my comment to him was that he had a pretty high bar to match; being of the same "series" as Release... more »
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The Development Team in Scrum - Team Spirit
This article describes the role of the development team in Scrum. Neither the budget nor the strategies or techniques are responsible for successful... more »
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Jigsaw Versioning is Ridiculous
There was some activity on the JSR 294 mailing list this morning. The Jigsaw team came down from the mountains and has informed us that…
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Writing a internal DSL in Scala
I implemented a small part of SQL to see how close I could match it within Scala.
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F# Discoveries This Week 11/22/2009
This edition of Discoveries This Week includes both the very best of what I saw at PDC 2009 and the most outstanding things I’ve glimpsed going on in... more »
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NIO server with continuation in Java
Java VM embodies continuations now (not in production, in a hacking mode :), This post shows how to write a non-blocking server with continuations.
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Cloud Computing Patterns
I have attended a presentation by Simon Guest from Microsoft on their cloud computing architecture. Although there was no new concept or idea... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/23
Nexan unveils a "Beast" of a storage system and Microsoft opens it's Surface SDK to everyone. SAP and Microsoft also form a marketing alliance that... more »
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db4o is now Maven-ized
db4o Maven snapshot repository is now available. Responding to a frequent request from the community, the db4o team now supplies Maven snapshots of... more »
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Java’s missing features
The following is a list of the language features I miss most when programming Java, the list includes descriptions about Closures, Modules, and so on.
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30 Must Have WebDesign Books In Your Christmas Wishlist
In this article you'll find books teaching you how to create great websites, get ideas, learn CSS,HTML, usability, typography, be aware about user... more »
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The market has rejected Linux desktops. Get over it
Linux has failed to win either mind share or market share on the desktop. Google’s Chrome OS will do little to change that. Learn why.
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In Search of Free File Hosting Services: 25 of the bests
In this post you can find 25 of the best Free File Hosting Services.
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jQuery Selector Testing Tool
This is a really cool jQuery selector tester that let's you try selectors and automatically highlights them in the html. Lots of fun to play with and... more »
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Open Source Revolution
Reflections on how the nature of programming and development have changed over the last 10 years.
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Performance Analysis of dynamic JavaScript Menus
In my previous post I talked about the impact of jQuery Selectors on a page that I analyzed. The page took 4.8 seconds in the onLoad event handler. 2... more »
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