Top 10 reasons for moving away from dzone
I used to be a big fan of dzone.com both as a reader and active contributor posting a number of articles, but unfortunately over last few... more »
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Groovy 1.7 released
The Groovy development team and SpringSource are very pleased to announce the final release of Groovy 1.7, the most popular and... more »
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Groovy 1.8.0 released
The Groovy development team is really pleased and proud to announce the release of the final version of Groovy 1.8.0! After a lot of... more »
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Design Patterns Quick Reference
So every time I am designing something new I find myself either searching Google or opening up a gang of four (GoF) book to aid me. I... more »
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The * stupidest things I’ve done in my programming job
I’m not ashamed of those sins any more, so here you go :) 1. Building my own Object Relational Mapping framework. 2. Using an... more »
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James Gosling is Now a Googler
People have been asking the question for months - "Is Google the new Sun?" Well, you can still argue that the answer is "no," but it... more »
IntelliJ IDEA sources available
Go and grab the IntelliJ IDEA 9 sources! No kidding here! It's all official - check out the press release as well as the new... more »
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Dear Oracle, can we have our nice javadoc URLs back?
A bad thing happened a few days ago. Not a bad bad bad thing, just a tiny annoying change in the cool URLs that Sun used to publish the... more »
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Charles Nutter: My Thoughts on Oracle vs Google
As you've probably heard by now, Oracle has decided to file suit against Google, claiming multiple counts of infringement against Java or... more »
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Groovy 1.6 has been released!
This is with very great pleasure and honor that I'm [Guillaume Laforge] announcing the final release of Groovy 1.6, on behalf of the... more »
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What's new in Grails 2.0
Dynamic frameworks like Rails, Django and TurboGears helped pave the way to a more modern way of thinking about web applications. Grails... more »
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Google Collections 1.0 final released
"The Google Collections Library 1.0 is a set of new collection types, implementations and related goodness for Java 5 and higher, brought... more »
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Felipe Gaúcho - A Loss To The Java Community
I was very sad to read the news that Felipe Gaúcho had passed away this weekend. Felipe has been an active member of JavaLobby for many... more »
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Spring to Java EE – A Migration Experience
Spring to Java EE – A Migration Experience
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Scala Johanson in Java Forever: Hilarious movie trailer!
The very funny story of a young Java developer growing up in a .NET family.
Common Java Cookbook
This collection provides expert tips for using Java-based utilities from projects such as Apache Commons, Apache Lucene, and Apache... more »
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A Groovier Eclipse experience
For the last couple of months SpringSource has been actively involved in developing the next version of the Eclipse Groovy Tools. The... more »
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What has Maven ever done for us?
What has Maven ever done for us?!
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New language features in Java 7
Nice recap of the JDK 7 language changes with examples
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Is it time to fork Java?
This year's JavaOne conference let a lot of people down. Attendees I spoke to said they would not be back. Should we fork the conference?... more »
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Progress Buy a Bridge in Brooklyn (Savvion BRMS) and make Del Boy Trotter Proud
Earlier this year someone packaged up the open source Drools BRMS and added one of the more uninspiring industry BPM products and sold... more »
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Why doesn’t (JPA, JMA, JTA, EJB, JSF, CDI) work? JEE is “Too Complicated”
First, before reading this – you’re going to be upset with me. You’re going to disagree. I know — it’s OK. You may not even believe me,... more »
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Grails: It Just Makes Sense
Why do individuals and companies still say things like “We can't use Grails because we are a Java shop”? Do “Java shops” use Spring?... more »
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For the Love of Vaadin: Java RIAs Done Right
There are lots of Java web frameworks out there, but if you are coming from writing Swing or SWT desktop applications, they all seemed... more »
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