IBM claims world’s fastest processor with 5.2GHz z196
Consider when a 1.4GHz processor was deeming the worlds fastest? Man that was ages ago. Newly, IBM has lain declare to that very record,... more »
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Clients writing Cucumber stories?
Here is why I don't use cucumber stories. This way the client gets an overview of the features we’re building, which ones we’re currently... more »
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YUI 3.2.0 Released: SimpleYUI, Touch Event Support, Gestures, Transitions, CSS Grids, ScrollView, Uploader, and More
The YUI team is pleased to announce the GA release of YUI 3.2.0, a significant update to YUI’s JavaScript and CSS components. This... more »
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Workaround to Multi Threaded Testing
Since it has been introduced in JDK 1.5, I have loved the Executor abstraction over multi threaded execution. Basically you define tasks,... more »
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Oracle "Leaning Heavily" Towards JDK 7/JDK 8 Feature Split
We've all known for some time that the JDK 7 development schedule was a bit too ambitious given the sudden addition of closures and the... more »
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JPA Compound Primary Keys Explained
JPA Compound Primary Keys Explained with code snippet
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Limiting Concurrency in Node.js
Lets also say, your new Node.js web application does non-trivial things, and hits a limited backend resource. You can’t rewrite this... more »
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Adobe AIR, Flex and Flash in the Cloud
Learn about the tremendous benefits that cloud computing offers to enterprise and consumer-facing RIAs, and see how Adobe AIR, Flex, and... more »
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Practical Project and Risk Management
This video introduces risk management in projects and how to mitigate it.
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Beans Should Be Deprecated - The Future of Object Architecture With Properties
In my previous post I discussed the case for Properties and the basics of how they work. In this post I will dive into the specific... more »
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Slaying dragons with git, bash, and ruby
An often over-looked feature when using git are the various hooks you have available. They cover pre-applypatch, post-update, and... more »
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Multilingual database design approaches
Useful comparison of popular approaches used for creating database supporting multiple languages.
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Re-thinking JDK 7
"It’s been clear for some time that the most recent JDK 7 development schedule is, to put it mildly, unrealistic." So: "Plan A: JDK 7... more »
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21 Extremely Beautiful Infographic Inspirations
A picture is worth a thousand words. Most of the time, I found that a complex idea can be conveyed easily with a single still image.... more »
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The Difference Between Good Design and Great Design
What’s the difference between a good design and a great design? When you sit down and start a new project, that should be one of the... more »
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PostgreSQL 9.1 Alpha Arrives Ahead of 9.0 GA
With PostgreSQL 9.0 approaching its final release, work on the next incremental version has already begun. Today, PostgreSQL project... more »
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Inside C# Data Structs
C# data structures are aggregates of any other data type you care to think of. Usually you can just ignore the details of using them but... more »
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Unit testing your UI with Selenium
Selenium is an open source, robust set of tools that supports rapid development of test automation for web-based applications. In this... more »
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JSF 2.0 hello world example
A JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0 hello world example, build with Maven, developed in Eclipse 3.6, Helios, JDK 1.6 and tested in Tomcat 6.0.26...
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Waste #4: Handoffs
Welcome to episode four of our series "The Seven Wastes of Software Development." In this episode, I'd like to focus on "Handoffs."
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Build dynamic user interfaces with Android and XML
A number of websites cater to non-profits that provide easily set-up and used forms for taking polls and collecting data. This tutorial... more »
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Build RESTful web services with the Spring 3 MVC HttpMessageConverter feature
Spring, the well-known framework for building Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications, now supports Representational... more »
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HTML5 Status Update
Where is HTML5 today? What new features are now broadly supported, what features are on the horizon, and what features are on the... more »
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Developer / Architect interviews, looking at it from both sides. Part 2
Looking at interviews from both sides of the table, Part 2 is focused on being the interviewer and just some views on what I think is... more »
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Python’s Innards: for my wife
The other day the best wife I ever had had trouble sleeping and asked me to tell her something to put her to sleep. Since she’s not quite... more »
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