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javaone 2008 summary/reflection
JavaOne 2008 is over. I’m still processing everything I’ve seen, but so far I didn’t see to much I didn’t know about before; certainly nothing... more »
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Nesting ActiveRecord transactions
A look a solutions to nest transactions is ActiveRecord; mainly to allow for unittesting transactions.
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Closures and the return of the return
Joshua Bloch showed a couple of slides to demonstrate the problems with the return keyword in context of closures at JavaPolis. It kept me thinking. I... more »
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how elvis showed me a neat way of using operators in ruby
In one of the recent releases of Groovy the Elvis operator was added to the Groovy language. It made me discover how to do similar stuff in Ruby.
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SOA & ESB Stencil for Omnigraffle
I decided to loosely ‘port’ the excellent Sonic Icon and Sonic Diagram Library for drawing SOA and ESB diagrams to an Omnigraffle stencil. It's free... more »
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The virtues of HPricot: scraping DZone
A simple how-to on using HPricot to scrape HTML pages.
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Using Rails without a database
I had some problems to get my unittests to work in a database-less rails environment; this is how I managed to get it to work
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Using propertyMissing to enhance Date (in Groovy)
I ventured into the groovy metaclass to enhance the default Date object. With a couple of lines to implement missingProperty I managed to get stuff... more »
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Extending LDAP in Java with JLDAP
Writing you own controls and messages is a kind of under documented thing. In addition, not all LDAP libraries support all kinds of messages. In this... more »
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CPD with maven2 and PMD
Detecting copy/pasted code is a useful technique to find potential buggy code. Here is a how-to on configuring PMD for CPD in maven2.
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multiproject maven2: getting the site to work
When generating a project site for a multiproject setup as described in my previous post many people run into the same problem. The links to the... more »
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Getting started with multiproject maven2
A fairly basic howto on setting up a multiproject maven2 enviroment using the default archetypes.
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Getting started with JBoss Seam (using seam-gen)
Two years ago I did a project using MyFaces. I didn't really like it and started using SpringMVC. Now, with an upcoming Seam project I decided to give... more »
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Starting with JBoss Seam (using seam-gen)
Two years ago I did a project using MyFaces. I didn't really like it and started using SpringMVC. Now, with an upcoming Seam project I decided to give... more »
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Howto: package level annotations
While working with JAXB2 I was looking for a way to specify behavior using an annotation on package level. I didn't really know how to actually put an... more »
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How to start doing behaviour driven development using RSpec
After checking out the way testing/TDD works in Grails I just had to see if my initial interest in RSpec would stand ground; here are the results of... more »
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Testing a Grails taglib using XmlSlurper
In this post I show how write a test for a dynamic Grails taglib using the excellent XmlSlurper.
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LazyList implementation for Googles' Collection Library
I wrote a LazyList counterpart for Googles' Collection Library using the Forwarding decorators. Full source included.
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Quick look at the Google Collection Library
A first impression of the Google Collection Library.
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Getting started with TDD in Grails
Grails offers excellent support for doing Test Driven Development. This blogpost takes you through the bare basics.
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ActiveForm plugin released
This plugin provides a base class for making forms with ActiveRecord validations without having a corresponding database table. You can use ActiveForm... more »
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Quick take on Wicket Web Beans
A quick look at the recently released wicket web beans framework
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Unittesting e-mail sending in Spring
A simple howto on using Wiser as a dummy SMTP for unittesting in Spring
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Exposing services to SOAP in Grails
A simple example showing how to expose a service to SOAP using Grails' XFire plugin.
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