DZone Sitemap: May 2012 Articles

"Why I Hate Unit Testing"
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 1: ThreadLocal
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 2: Task Timeout Cancellation
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 3: IDataFlowBlock
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 4: BatchedBlocks
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 5: Some More Interesting Blocks
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 6: ISourceBlock
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 7: Regular Expression Timeouts
.NET 4.5 Baby Steps, Part 8: AppDomain Wide Culture Settings
.NET Framework 4.5 Gets Built-In ZIP Support
.Net → C# – Get Windows Mobile Theme Color
10 Inventive 3D Website Designs
101 Leadership Rules To Live By
13 Ways to Improve the Performance of Your App
2-legged OAuth with OAuth 1.0 and 2.0
3 Reasons to Use FuseSource Docs for Apache Camel, ServiceMix, and Karaf
3 Types of Infrastructure Elasticity
5 Best Eclipse Plugins: #2 (AnyEdit Tools)
5 Best Eclipse Plugins: System and Desktop Search
5 Signs You Should Hire a Programmer on the Spot
5-Minute Beginner's Guide: Installing / Testing Redis and Node.js on OS X
6 Java Web Applications Hosting in the Cloud
6 Types of Monitoring
7 Application Deployment Best Practices
9 SSH Do’s and Don’ts
A Comprehensive Comparison of Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Part 2)
A Comprehensive List of Cloud Platforms (PaaS)
A crash course for the MongoDB console
A Developer's Perspective on IAAS vs. PAAS
A Full Overview of the CamelOne 2012 Conference
A Generic Text Comparison Tool Implementation with LCS Approach
A Look at Facebook's Open Graph
A Look At the CLR 4.5 Internals
A Look into Python Decorators
A Python Script I Used for Membase/Couchbase Stats Reports
A Quick Overview of JSTL
A Simple Search by Image Engine in F#
A Taste of GridFS, MongoDB's Filesystems
A Vague Error While Creating Azure Blob Storage Container
A XAML Guy Digs Into ASP.NET MVC4
Access WSO2 Registry Programatically
Adding "Filter as you type" Support to IndexedDB
Adding Storage Capability to your Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac Apps using Microsoft SkyDrive APIs
Adventures in Unhandled Exception Handling for XNA/Silverlight
Algorithm of the Week: Determine if a Number is Prime
Algorithm of the Week: Karatsuba Fast Multiplication
Algorithm of the Week: Minimum and Maximum
Amazon EC2: Apache, Git, Website Hosting with Cloud-Init
Amazon Web Services with PHP & nuSoap
An Apache Camel & ActiveMQ Performance Test
An Introduction to Cloud Computing Characteristics and Service/Deployment Models
An Open Letter to Klouchebag
Android Image Recognition with Neuroph & NetBeans
Android Special Effects: Alpha Animation
Android Tip – How to define Getter/Setter methods
Announcement: Node.js on Windows Azure Meetup in Reston, VA on 5/17
Announcing RavenHQ - RavenDB as a Service on the Cloud
Announcing WP.NET
Another Way to Decouple Your Server Components
Apache Camel Tutorial—EIP, Routes, Components, Testing, and More
Apache Commons Lang StringUtils
Apache Giraph: Distributed Graph Processing in the Cloud
App-UI - a New HTML5 Application Framework
Applying Back Pressure When Overloaded
Applying Config Transformation app.config in Windows Azure Worker Role
Arquillian on Legacy Servers
Artifactory 2.6 is released
Ask DZ: How do you compare two text classfiers?
Auditing Entities With JPA Events
Automated Build Systems with Puppet & Cobbler
Automated Web Page Profiling (Python)
Automatically Download and Install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Vagrant
Awake File: access remote files securely from Desktop Apps
Awake SQL: access remote SQL databases securely from Desktop Apps using JDBC
Azure Real World: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud
Bad Code: Too Many Object Conversions Between Application Layers And How to Avoid Them
Basic REST service in Apache CXF vs. Camel-CXF
Basic XML Processing With Scala
Beefed Up Code Navigation Tools in NetBeans IDE 7.2
Before Choosing, Know Your Cloud Dimensions
Beginners Guide: Improving Search Indexes for Better Performance
Binary Websockets with Play 2.0 and Scala
Bonus Algorithm: Run-Length Encoding
Book Excerpt: Griffon in Action
Building an API: Test Harness UI
Categorize tests to reduce build time.
CERTivity KeyStores Manager on NetBeans
Challenges in Requirements Analysis: Finding and Understanding the Correct Terms
Choosing a Web Development Framework: Options and Criteria
Clojure: Conditionally Importing
Cloud PaaS Deathmatch
Cloud Success Begins with IT
CloudDevelop 2012 Conference to be Held in Columbus, OH on August 3
Cocoon - An Easier Way To Develop Windows 8 Applications
Code Aesthetics
Codifying DevOps
ColdFusion 10 Released Today: New Features
Common try-with-resources Idiom Won't Clean Up Properly
Comparing MongoDB with MySQL Cluster as a Key-Value Store
Comparing the Flavors of Config Managment: Chef, Puppet, etc.
Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB - a Summary
Computer Algorithms: Karatsuba Fast Multiplication
Configure Azure Storage Emulator SQL Server Instance
Connection Pooling in a Java Web Application with Tomcat and NetBeans IDE
Continuous Delivery vs. Traditional Agile
Convert C# Struct To Java Using CodePorting Engine
Converting a dynamic web site to a PhoneGap application
Cool headings with pseudo-elements
Core Points of the Thought Process Behind RavenDB
Core Python Development: How to Submit a Patch
Create A Moving Background In A XNA Game on Windows Phone
Creating A Custom Camel Component
Creating a Custom Spring 3 XML Namespace
Creating a NetBeans 7.1 Custom Hint
Creating a RESTful Web Service: XML Metadata
Creating a Windows Metro Style Application in C++
Creating an IntelliSense Compatible Enum-Based Dependency Property
Creating QR Codes with Python
Creating watermarked images in PhoneGap
Creating Watermarked Images in PhoneGap
Creating Windows Phone, iPhone and Android Apps with iFactr in Visual Studio 2010
CSS Filter Effects in Action
CSS media queries in JavaScript
CSS2LESS - An Online Tool To Quickly Convert Your Old CSS Files To Fresh New LESS Files
CXF JAX-RS on Apache TomEE
Data Visualization with Web Standards
DbWrench Database Design & Synchronization v2.3
DCI in Ruby (Part 1)
Dealing with Stuck Threads on WebLogic
Debugging a Windows Service Project
Debugging Vaadin Client Widgets
Defining an Agile Methodology for Orthodox Environments
Dependency Injection in PHP
Deploying Django Staticfiles to Heroku via Hudson/Jenkins
Deploying Graphite on Mongrel2
Deploying Play Framework 2 apps, with Java AND Scala, to Openshift
Design Case Study of Morphing a HTML5 Page Into a Windows 8 Metro App
Design Case Study of Morphing a HTML5 Page Into a Windows 8 Metro App
Developing a Sample Todo Desktop Application Using JavaFX and MongoDB
Developing Your Own Solr Filter
Devops: What it is and Why you Should be Doing it
DexGuard 5.0 released
Django Performance: Latency Kills
Django, Nginx, WSGI and encoded slashes
Django/NewRelic Quickstart (gunicorn.d + Django 1.3 hack)
Djangocon Videos Continued
docx4j 2.8.0 released
Don't Store All Your Eggs in One Basket: An Idiom for the Cloud
dotCMS 2.0 Raises the Bar in Java-based Web Content Management
Ease into Cloud with JBoss
Easily parallelize jobs using web workers and a threadpool with HTML5
Easy Unit and Integration Code Coverage
EasyNetQ, a simple .NET API for RabbitMQ
eBook Review – Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python
Eclipse Global Preferences
Eclipse Working Sets Explained
ECMAScript.next: Arrow Functions and Method Definitions
EF Code First/MVC NotNullAttribute
Effective Testing Strategies for MapReduce Applications
Ehcache Size Configuration
EJB3 façade over Spring services
Embedding Ops Members in Dev teams – My Recent Experience
Emulating Multiple Inheritance with Extension Methods
ES.next Needs You!
Europython 2012 announced!
Example of Intents with PhoneGap
Executing an Elastic MapReduce Hive Workflow from the AWS Management Console
Extend The Array Class with Extension Methods
Extending JAXB - Representing Metadata as JSON
Extract to User Control in Visual Studio 11
FarCry Solr Pro CMS Plugin
Filtering FindBugs Reports by Rank
Find, Forgive and Forget Your Coding Indiscretions With NDepend
First Impression: So.cl by Microsoft
First Smoke Test: NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 & Oracle JDK 7u4 for Mac OS X
Fixed odd runtime error with Spring and LogFactory
Free Tech Webinar on 7 Myths about Agile
Full-fidelity history and data migration are mutually exclusive
Functional Programming on the JVM
Get CloudNinja for Help Developing Java Apps on Windows Azure
Get Familiar with MongoDB Replica Set Internals: Syncing
Get Last N Records Using Linq-to-SQL
Get Remote IP Address in PHP
Get URL Parameters
Getting MapReduce Working on MongoDB
Getting Started With RESTEasy and NetBeans IDE 7.1
Getting Started with Socket.IO and Node.js
Getting Started With Vert.x and Java on OS X
Getting Started with Windows 8 Development
Getting Started with Windows Azure for Java
Github for Windows Now Available
Google BigQuery: An Append-only Cloud SQL Service (for your 'Big Data')
Google Not Guilty in Case of Patent Infringement
Google Play’s minimal tabs with CSS3 & jQuery
Grails Dynamic Dropdown
Granite Data Services 2.3.2 GA Released with several Enhancements and New Features
Guess What? Relational Searching Sucks
GUI for Cassandra: Make Things a Little Easier
Hacking Maven
Have You Heard Something Called “Smoked by Windows Phone”??
High Availability Plugin for Jenkins Enterprise
High CPU Troubleshooting Guide
How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes
How Does Twitter Use Scribe, Hadoop/Pig, HBase, Cassandra, and FlockDB for Data Analytics?
How to Change Pages in a Web Application in the Age of HTML5
How to create an API for users who don’t want to depend on your code?
How to Create an Incremental SQL Azure Data Source for U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delays Dataset
How to Debug a Windows 8 Metro Secondary Tile
How To Fix the WCF Cache of Dynamic WSDLs
How to Install WSO2 WSF/PHP on Ubuntu
How to pick an ESB - Comparison Criteria
How to Print from Various Cloud Storage Platforms
How to Query HTTP:BL for Spamming IP Addresses
How to Send Text Messages Using Your Windows Azure Service
How to Store Log4Net Logs in MongoDB
How to: Reset the Idle Detection Countdown in WinPhone7
How-To: Get Mobile Operator details in Windows Phone
HTML5 Canvas Twirl Sphere
HTML5 Image Effects – HDR Simulation
HTML5: Combining Physics Engine (box2dWeb) With DeviceOrientation
HTML5: Remotely vibrate a phone with morse code using web sockets and the vibrate API
Hybrid Cloud Emerges as a Hot Topic at Interop
IIS Transform Manager 1.0 (RTW) Now Available
Image Cropping In Windows 8 Metro Applications
Implement Queue using LinkedList - C#
Implementing HTML5 Drag & Drop Based File Upload in ASP.NET MVC 3
Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest
IndexedDB in Action: Complete Sample App
Infrastructure Tooling Anti-Patterns: Accumulator
Installing and Configuring NetBeans IDE 7.1.2 and the Java JDK 1.7 on OS X
Institutional Knowledge is Gold
Integrating With reCAPTCHA Using Spring Integration
Internet Explorer Continues Its Reign Over Firefox, Chrome, and Safari According to 2012 Q1 Data
Internet’s First Spanish Review Site for Family-Friendly Windows Phone Apps
Intro to Visual Studio Asynchronous Programming
Introducing ElasticMQ: Scala SQS Alternative
Introducing Fog: A Library for Interacting with Azure from F#
Introducing the WPF Application Framework
Introduction to Opa
Invoke Interface Optimisations
Java App on MongoDB in 30 Minutes
Java Thread Deadlock: A Case Study
JavaFX 2 GameTutorial Part 3
JavaFX-Based SimpleDateFormat Demonstrator
JavaScript Study Guide
JayData - The unified data access library for JavaScript/HTML5
JCommander – Parsing Command Line Parameters With Ease
jQuery AJAX With Play 2
jQuery Find Function
Know a Difficult Solr Problem?
Lean tools: Making decisions
Lean tools: Options thinking
Lean tools: Pull systems
Lean Tools: the Last Responsible Moment
Learning in a Result Oriented Software Development environment
License4J 3.0 Released
Limitations of today’s Debuggers
LinkedList Implementation using C#
Linting Without a Plugin
Looking at Windows 8 Metro App Internals? The Path Has Changed In The Consumer Preview.
Lucene Setup on OracleDB in 5 Minutes
Major International Companies Say ‘Yes’ to Unit Testing
Make Web Forms Look Like Vintage 1960s Typed Forms
Making Menus With wxPython
Martin Fowler on ORM Hate
Maven Build Dependencies
Maven Build Progress With TeamCity Service Messages
Maven the Version Number Nazi
Metro Style App Development Useful Links
Metro UI Theme for JQuery Mobile Unveiled
Michael Crump — XAML Advocate, Telerik — Uncut & Unedited
Microsoft MVC Best Practices
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta SDK Now Available
Mixins in Python
Modify ls command colors
Monitoring Stats From Memcached or Membase (Python, RRDTool)
More Fun with the Windows Azure Service Bus
More Java Community songs
More SaaS Integration from MuleSoft
MS Office-Style CSS3 Multilevel Menu
Multi-Device Best Practices
Multi-Mechanize Script With HTTP Profiling Timers
My Brain Can’t Handle OOP Anymore
My Django Application Refresh: The Joys of Deleting Code
My First steps in Test Driven Development- A Win-Win Strategy
My Git Setup on Windows
Naked JavaScript - Function Basics
Naked JavaScript - Function Scopes, Hoisting And Other Quirks
NDepend v4 Has Finally Arrived!
NetBeans IDE 7.2 Beta - Built for Speed! Now Available for Download!
NetBeans Usability Tips
NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #535 - May 01, 2012)
NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #536 - May 09, 2012)
NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #537 - May 16, 2012)
NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #538 - May 21, 2012)
NetBeans Weekly News (Issue #539 - May 28, 2012)
NextReports 5.2 was released
On Machine Intelligence and Predictive Power
Opinion: C# / XAML vs. HTML5 for Windows 8 Development
OSGi vs. Jigsaw: Kirk Knoernschild on Modularity
Overheard: Agile Truths
PanoJS3 - An Interactive JavaScript Widget For Panning And Zooming A Panoramic Image
Parallel Provisioning For Speeding up Vagrant
Performance: Caching Per Request
PHP 5.4 by examples
Pie Menu: A Path-Like Menu Using jQuery And CSS3
Presentation: Entity Relationships in a Document Database
Private deployment of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2
Private deployment of SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP2
Pro Tip: Find Out How Long a Web Service Call Takes
Process Template Upgrade #7 – Overwrite Retaining History With Limited Migration
Processing JSON in Scala with Jerkson
Progress Report from CamelOne 2012 in Boston (Apache Camel, ActiveMQ, ServiceMix, CXF)
Progress Report from the Java EE Conference “Confess 2012″
Progressive Enhancement Tutorial: ASP.NET MVC 3 and jQuery
ProGuard 4.8 released
Protect a REST service using HMAC (Play 2.0)
Protect a REST Service Using HMAC (Play 2.0)
Puppet: A Beginners Concept Guide (Part 1)
Pure vs Practical REST
Pushing the Limits of the Windows Phone SDK and Sending Files via EmailComposeTask
Python - Search a Local or Remote Splunk Server
Python 3 on the desktop for Quantal Quetzal
Python from Scratch vs Battleship Written in Python
Python on Windows: Get Set Up to Help With Core Development
Python Weekly Link Roundup!
QF-Test version 3.4.7 released
Queue using 2 Stacks - C#
Quick Evaluation of Twitter Bootstrap
Quick Tip: Windows Phone Vibration With VibrateController
RabbitMQ Subscriptions with the DotNet Client
Rants On The Daily Grind of Building Software
Real Time HTML5 Application With Websocket and ActiveMQ/Camel
Real Time HTML5 application with Websocket and ActiveMQ/camel
Relationships and Relational Databases
ReleaseCandidateTracker Records Deployments in RavenDB
Remove Duplicate Characters - C# (Case Sensitive)
Responding to "Shell Apps" Anti-PhoneGap Article
RESTication of Openxava App and Vaadin Client
Reverse A String
Reverse a String C# - Efficient Way
Reviewing the Sessions from CamelOne 2012
Roo Add-On Development: Testing XML Configurations
Runtime Classpath vs Compile-Time Classpath
Saving the Values of a Dynamically Populated Dropdown on Back Button
Search Properties Within Files Using Ant
Serious About Your Software Career? Leave your job
Setting up a Vert.x Project to Work with Maven and NetBeans IDE 7.1 on OS X and Java 7
Setting up Console Debugging for PhoneGap and Android
Setting up JNDI with Jetty (Embedded)
Sharding Status for Failure Scenarios: API Design with RavenDB
Shared and External App.Config Settings
Should the CIO Know How to Code?
Simplify Syntax with Extension Methods
SOA Principles: An Example App
Software Development Metrics that Matter
Software Engineer
Solr Autcomplete, part 4 (Ngram and faceting)
Solving a Producer-Consumer Problem in Java
Specifying Appropriate NetBeans JDK Source Release
Spoofing the Host Entry in a HTTPWebRequest
Spring 3.1 Release and runtime exception with Logfactory
Spring Integration - Input Channel Definition
Spring Integration - Payload Storage via Claim-check
Spring Integration - Transforming a Header Object to a Payload
Spring Integration Gateways - Null Handling & Timeouts
Spring Integration: Splitter-Aggregator
Spring Testing Support with TestNG
Staffing the Cloud with Skilled Employees
Stringer Java Obfuscation Toolkit v.1.0.4 Released: Silver Bullet for Android and Java Malware
Synthetica V2.15 and SyntheticaAddons V1.7 released
Taking Browser Screenshots With No Display (Selenium/Xvfb)
Tapestry Grid & Hibernate Criteria
TeamCity Build Dependencies
Test Developed Apps in Both 512MB RAM and 256MB RAM Emulators in Windows Phone
Testing Multiple Properties With a Single Assertion
That Cool Parallax Scrolling Effect - in Pure CSS3!
The 5 Point Checklist Backup and Recovery in EC2
The Battle Continues: XAML vs. HTML5
The Battle of the Game Engines – Unity vs SunBurn
The Best Multi-Threading Debugging Tool in Microsoft Excel
The Biggest Misconception about Google Page Speed
The Book That Every Programmer Should Read
The Build Monkey Antipattern
The Cost of Performance, Part 1: CSS Selector Rewriting
The Developer/Non-Developer Impedance Mismatch
The Future of NoSQL with Java EE
The Great PaaS Lock-In
The HTML5 Connectivity Revolution
The Limited Usefulness of AsyncContext.start()
The Most Popular Language This Month Is....
The Mother of all Eclipse Shortcuts
The Pitfalls of Naming Classes
The Power of Apache Mina: Building Client Auth and Async Notifications
The Science of Community Management: DjangoCon Keynote
The Speed Race Is On: Vert.x and Node.js
The surgery metaphor
The Surprisingly Powerful Azure Plugin Library
The Task: Async and Await in a Windows Runtime World
The Task: Events, Asynchronous Calls, Async and Await
The Turing test
Thursday Code Puzzler: Dining Philosophers
Thursday Code Puzzler: Needles In the Haystack
Thursday Code Puzzler: Some String Manipulation
Thursday Code Puzzler: Two Generals
Transferring Large Amount of Data Over the Network: SCP, TAR; SSH, TAR; NC Compared
Trying Out the New Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket Excel Add-In
Two Months of U.S. Air Carrier Flight Delay Data Available on the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
Two More Videos From Djangocon
Two Way Communication in JMS
uDeploy Built-in Properties Run-Down
Unblock Files In Windows 8 Using PowerShell And Registry
Understanding How OSGI Bundles Get Resolved: Part I
Understanding How OSGI Bundles Get Resolved: Part II
Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories
Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories
Unit and Integration Tests With Maven and JUnit Categories
Unity: Passing Constructor Parameters to Resolve
Unleashing More Mayhem With More Mayhem Module Madness
Uptime Report for my Live OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project : April 2012
Use Mongosniff to Clarify what your MongoDB is Hearing and Saying
Useful SVN Commands
Using HTML5's FullScreen API
Using LINQ to Indexed DB
Using Mustache.java Templates With Struts 2
Using Pip and Requirements.txt to Install From the Head of Github Branch
Using PowerShell to Publish a NuGet Package
Using RenderAction: Is Breaking the MVC Pattern Worth It?
Using SPDY and HTTP Transparently Using Netty
Using the ShrinkWrap Maven Resolver for Arquillian Tests
Using XmlAdapter for Testing
Vaadin, Maven, and NetBeans
Video: Embracing Cloud Computing Power in Your Next Gen. Apps.
Video: Performance Management From A to Z'
Video: Pydata Workshop Tutorial
Virtualization in WPF with VirtualizingStackPanel
Virtues and Tenets of a Profession
Want Your App To Be Available In The Windows 8 Marketplace?
WCF.js Message Level Signature? Check.
Web Worker: Running JS Tasks in the Background
Web2py App Development Cookbook: A Review
Webinar: Agile Project Management with YouTrack 4.0
What are the Options for Managing Message State in Windows Azure?
What is global state?
What is Latency, Throughput and Degree of Concurrency?
What the Heck is a Utility Tree?
When Debug isn’t enough with your Windows 8 Metro Applications
Why Can't I Connect to my SQL Azure Database?
Why Developers Never Use State Machines
Why Eclipse WTP Doesn't Publish Libraries When Using m2e
Why Going Back to Previous Page in a Metro App Creates a new Instance of the Page
Why I'm Excited About Using Neo4j for a CMDB Backend
Why I’m Excited to Attend Camel One
Why Open Source Your Secrets
Why You Should Write a Blog Post Today
Windows 8 Consumer Preview Keyboard Shortcuts
Windows 8 on laptop in-depth analysis
Windows Phone A-Z Resources
Workaround the Lack of Full Atomic Transaction Support in NoSQL Databases
Working With Node.js and Redis
Working With The Dapper Micro-ORM In MVC
wxPython: How to use the Clipboard
Xamarin Designer for Android Now Avaiable for Visual Studio and MonoDevelop
Yet Another Podcast #65 – Windows 8 with Michael Crump
Yet More Spock Magic: Mocks
Yonik Seeley's Solr 4 Preview: SolrCloud, NoSQL, and More
YourKit Java Profiler 11
YouTrack 3.3 With Advanced Full-Text Search Is Out!