Pimping Builds
Cool ways to tweak your Ant and Maven builds from the "Pimp My Build" session at JavaOne.
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Why are you still not using Hudson?
This week Hudson was awarded the Duke’s Choice Award in the Developer Solutions category at JavaOne. In the space of a couple of years, Hudson has... more »
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PHP Has No Culture of Testing
Charles Nutter, a Sun engineer who has worked on the JRuby project, commented on PHP in a panel discussion at Sun's CommunityOne conference. I will... more »
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Javascript String Performance: an Analysis
Recently I was writing a “tips and tricks” blog post that was going to focus on the idea that it is better to use an object as a “string buffer”; the... more »
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Desktop integration with Java 6
Java 6 tries hard to make Java applications easier to integrate in the desktop environment of various platforms. One of such welcome attempts is the... more »
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Delphi Jumps Ship: Welcome Embarcadero
As you probably know by now, Delphi has a new owner. After 25 years of Borland Turbo Pascal and later Borland Delphi, after the Inprise fiasco and... more »
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The NetBeans Ruby IDE: You Thought Rails Development Was Fun Before
One of the powerful features added to the NetBeans IDE 6 was support for Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails. The Ruby programming language has become... more »
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Scripting Hadoop Jobs in Groovy
A tool for those groups that need to expose Hadoop to the 'casual' user who needs to get and manipulate valuable data on a Hadoop cluster, but doesn't... more »
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JavaOne: Ari Zilka on cluster visualization
Just saw Ari Zilka’s talk on Cluster Visualization at JavaOne. It leans heavily on Terracotta of course. It was a great presentation because it gave a... more »
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Netbeans Maven Intragation 3.1 Released !
Netbeans Maven Intragation 3.1 Released !
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So long Borland.. it has been a true rollercoaster ride with lots of fun on the way!
What does the future bring for the sell of CodeGear to Embarcadero? My take on it.
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JavaOne: Bill Pugh on Defective Java Code
Bill did a fun talk on some common defective Java and how to fix it. Bill is the driving force behind FindBugs so it should not be surprising that he... more »
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JavaOne: Eugene Kuleshov, Misko Hevery on practical byte code
This BOF was “Practical applications of static bytecode based analysis”. Eugene did the first half of the presentation and went over the basic... more »
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Day-to-day with Subversion
How many times have you said "What version is in production?" or "Can we rebuild production to fix a bug and release an update?" Better yet my... more »
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Opera Dragonfly Architecture
This article covers the architecture of Opera Dragonfly in detail, showing what the different components in the architecture are, and how they... more »
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line-height: abnormal
Here’s the punchline: the effects of declaring line-height: normal not only vary from browser to browser, which I had expected—in fact, quantifying... more »
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Embarcadero Buys CodeGear for $23M: New Life for JBuilder?
Embarcadero Technologies, a privately held database tools vendor, today announced a definitive agreement to purchase Borland's CodeGear division for... more »
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JavaOne 2008 - Subversion 1.5 is coming!
This morning, I went to a talk by some of the CollabNet guys on the now-imminent release of Subversion 1.5. I've talked about some of the main new... more »
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Python Call Graph
pycallgraph is a Python library that creates call graphs for Python programs.
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Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 1
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services are becoming more and more popular in many development projects. In Java or .NET, exposing your... more »
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Opera Releases Firebug Alternative: Dragonfly
For web developers, and especially front-end coders, the Firefox extension Firebug by Facebook’s Joe Hewitt is a killer app and major time saver. It... more »
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JFrets: Learning to Play Guitar with Java
Matt Warman, who created and open sourced JFrets, the Java-based guitar-teaching tool, is at JavaOne! He'll be delivering a technical session and BOF.... more »
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Conversations about the Spring Application Platform
Lots of conversation about the Spring Application Platform ... some reasonable, some crazy, some personal, some all of the above. This post summarizes... more »
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Introduction to Opera Dragonfly
Opera Dragonfly is Opera's all-new set of developer tools, designed to give developers a lightweight-but-powerful application that provides effective... more »
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One problem that Lisp can solve
So everybody these days, if have done a clever thing; the thing is a reimplementation of a bit of Lisp: LINQ, Ruby blocks, lambdas everywhere these... more »
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