Squash those Clyces
What are cyclic dependencies? Why are they bad? When are they acceptable? How can you find them?
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Web app form design
In this 10 minute presentation a designer at 37Signals walks you through some useful steps on creating usable, intuitive forms in your web apps... more »
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Developing a Spring Framework MVC application step-by-step
This document is a step-by-step guide on how to develop a web application from scratch using the Spring Framework.
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Hudson plugin for WAR/EAR deployment
I recently wrote a plugin for Hudson that deploys a WAR/EAR to the application container. The typical intended use of this is that when you build a... more »
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SitePoint CSS Live Demos
The popular SitePoint CSS Reference today added an exciting feature to its already impressive list — live demos.
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Database versioning Part 1
Versioning databases is one of those ongoing problems that has no one-size-fits-all solution. There are 2 solutions I have developed and used... more »
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IntelliJ Type Renderers
They provide you the ability to customize how objects are displayed in the debugger, offering “logic-oriented” presentation of data vs.... more »
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More praise for Hudson
Over on the Maven2 Users list a recent poster asked what CI server was best, and Hudson was the only answer.
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Announcing New Release of JetGroovy Plugin
We’re glad to announce the general availability of the new release of JetGroovy Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
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Basics of Java EE and Web Development with IntelliJ IDEA
To get you started with Java EE and Web development in IntelliJ IDEA, we’ve created a short and simple tutorial, showing how to create a basic Java EE... more »
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Another "What is Architecture?" post
I want to share one my favorite “white papers.” I, for many years, didn’t know what people meant when they said architecture (actually, they probably... more »
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Annoucement: Maven 2.0.9 Released
The Apache Maven team would like to announce the release of Maven 2.0.9. See the release notes.
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A guide to Robots.txt usage
This guide has all the information, examples and explanation you need about Robots.txt files.
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Configuration Method Chaining
.. currently does not support method chaining ... we decided to investigate method chaining to determine if it should be introduced into this project... more »
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A Java Programmer’s Guide to Random Numbers, Part 1: Beyond java.util.Random
More than you ever wanted to know about randomness in Java programs. This is the first in a series of articles about random numbers in Java programs.
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IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.3: Maven Integration Improvements
Each new IntelliJ IDEA version brings lots of different enhancements. Maven integration is not exception to the rule, and I’d like to draw your... more »
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Architecture Rules 101
Brief intro to Architecture Rules. Assert Your Architecture! with this open source java library. Architecture Rules leverages an xml configuration... more »
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Maven Web Project Gotcha: Overlays
Turns out, if your web project depends on a WAR, the contents of that WAR will be overlaid over your web project, unless you explicitly tell it... more »
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Java job posting trends: Aug 2006 to Present
Did a jog around the internets today and found the trend graphs on SimplyHired to be, well, simply interesting in themselves.
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SpringSource Enterprise Delivers Enhanced Spring Support and Monitoring Capabilities
Today SpringSource announced the availability of SpringSource Enterprise, which includes a certified and indemnified version of the popular Spring... more »
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My favorite JavaDoc class
It's not always fun to read the JavaDoc you run into. Therefore I feel it's refreshing to read the documentation for the class ...
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Maven Android Plugins: Masa 1.0 Released
I just opened a google code project: Masa, which handles the building, packaging and installing of Android applications to the emulator.
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April Fools tech news round up
All the April Fools' news that's fit to print.
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What does the “Open Web” actually mean?
There isn’t a Wikipedia entry on it yet. When you start to think about it, you may be surprised to find out how hard it is to pin down.
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IE 8 strict mode doesn’t allow for CSS opacity?
Howard Rauscher tipped us off to this IE 8 ticket that talks about how opacity and IE 8 strict mode do not jive
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