Testing and constructors
One of the pillars of design for testability, which is listed also in the Google guide for code reviewers, is to have constructors that do not contain... more »
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UML Tutorial
Learning UML in simple and easy steps : A beginner's tutorial containing complete knowledge of UML architecture, diagrams, notations examples with... more »
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SOA needs manifestation….not manifesto
I’ll bet that it felt like a momentous achievement to get a group of very well-known bloggers, analysts and technologists to agree on a “manifesto”... more »
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Writing Portable Data - The Why's and How's
There are many reasons for designing and implementing data base schemas that are portable. This post outlines the reasons why you should be writing... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/5
Mitch Pronschinske
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Oracle's defiance on the issue of MySQL could lead to a formal statement of objections by the EU. In other news, the W3C is meeting this week to... more »
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Everything you wanted to know about Encoding, charsets and File formats
Here you will find a lot of information about charsets unicode character blocks and many more information
Java SE: “Is That For Here Or To Go?”
Bundle a light version Java SE 6 runtime with your app to avoid dependency on public JRE while maintaining compatibility and keeping the download size... more »
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Key web development skills
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out... more »
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Trend Spotting: The Beauty of Using Two Colors, Black and White in Graphic Design
In the 90s, many areas of design- including fashion, home interiors, garden, and furniture, have evidenced a paring down to simple workable solutions.... more »
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Anti-patterns
Nothing prevents a programmer from implementing a coupled and ineffective solution, maybe without even knowing it, and just like with the more famous... more »
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Java Generics Tutorial
10 texts explaining Java generics. For instance how to create typed lists, sets and maps. The texts also explain how to use the new for-loop, and... more »
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MVVM with Prism 101 – Part 5b: ServiceLocator vs Dependency Injection
The latest post in a series on implementing MVVM architecture with the Prism framework. How to implement the Service Locator and Dependency Injection... more »
Technologies That Will Change The Web
Some years ago, the mp3 format was invented. It was a market killer invention since there was a whole bunch of new products and hardware that came out... more »
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Anatomy of Colors in Web Design: Green and Environmental Concept
Everyone has a favorite color that they like and they tend to choose their preferable color when it comes to their work or personal life, e.g. like... more »
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Java Portal Update November 2009 and Java Buzz
After a long summer break, this post summarizes the current Java Portal market as well as other important on goings in the Java space.
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Are You a Software Developer or a Dabbler?
I compiled a simple list of things you really really should do, when doing softwaredevelopment. Those are basic practices. If you don’t even adhere to... more »
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Having Fun with JDK's tools.jar
This week I had to trace a bug in a legacy application, I'm maintaining at the moment, which drove me up the wall. The application uses a class from... more »
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Grady Booch on Design Patterns, OOP, and Coffee
Larry O'Brien talks to Grady Booch about the 15th anniversary of Design Patterns, the wicked problems of developing in the multicore era, what... more »
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Top 10 programming fonts
Which one is your favorite?
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Custom Server Controls with C#
Today we will be looking at something that all programers would love to know, but few can master. In this tutorial i will go over some basic parts of... more »
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DZone Daily Dose - 2009/10/29
Mitch Pronschinske
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The US Dept. of Defence says it's now ok to use open source software, an update on HTML5, and trouble with Windows 7.
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What we can learn from some UGLY sites!
5 ugly websites and the techniques behind their ugliness.
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Readable Code vs. Comments
Many of the beginner (well, and not beginner) developers as well are sometimes wondering - what is more important - readable code or comments? Now, I... more »
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How to grab a right opportunity to grow fastly in your organization?
To grow and survive, all companies need to keep creating or finding new opportunities. While grabbing the right opportunity is no cakewalk..........
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The Repository pattern
A Repository is a Domain-Driven Design concept but it is also a standalone pattern. Repositories are an important part of the domain layer and deal... more »
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