May 2007: Spring gets $10 million
CTO Rod Johnson one year ago: "I think the biggest change you will see is an increase in our investment in the Spring Portfolio. Looking from the... more »
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Open Source - A "Freemium Business Model"?
Give your service away for free, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc,... more »
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Understanding GPL: Users who change GPL code have absolutely no, zero, zippo, big bagel, goose egg obligation to give back to "the community".
I, as a developer and user of GPL source code only have an obligation to the people who receive the software, whom I have a distribution relationship... more »
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No Need to Constantly Learn New Programming Languages - Programming Language Popularity is Quite Stable
If we take a look at the top 10 programming languages, not much has happened the last five years. Only Python entered the top 10, replacing COBOL.... more »
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Architecture astronauts take over (Joel on Software)
That's one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian... more »
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SpringSource licenses its Application Platform under GPL V3
It's going to have two versions: a GPLed, open version, and a subscription-based version. Rod Johnson: "Creating an application platform that makes... more »
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My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job
This book isn’t about India. It’s about you. You’ve already lost your job. You may still be drawing a paycheck, but the job you were hired to do no... more »
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MySQL so busy becoming PostgreSQL it forgets its community
On the surface everything is looking smooth: MySQL distributes proprietary MySQL+InnoDB to those who wants to embed them in their proprietary... more »
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How SimpleDB Differs from a RDBMS
New databases like SimpleDB and BigTable are what's different. As a long time RDBMS user what can you expect of SimpleDB? Making a database scalable... more »
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Article: Programmatic DI with Abstract Factories
"Programmatic Dependency Injection with an Abstract Factory," by Danny Hui, discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI)... more »
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Dependency Injection Without Frameworks
The servlet has a map of requestHandlers, mapped against their urls. When it loads (init method), it makes an ApplicationAssembler and asks it to... more »
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Programmatic DI without IoC Containers
"Programmatic Dependency Injection with an Abstract Factory," by Danny Hui, discusses the strength and weakness of applying Dependency Injection (DI)... more »
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Revisiting Dogfood – Companies not using their own products
A long time ago, I blogged about Spring not eating its own dogfood, using Drupal for their website instead of a Java product, much less a Spring... more »
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WingS 3.2 Released
Wings is a web application framework based on Java Servlets, resembling the Swing API with its MVC paradigm and event oriented design principles. It... more »
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Relevance - A Serious Competitor for Spring
Relevance Inc., a leading provider of enterprise Ruby application development, today announced the closing of a $3.6 million Series A investment from... more »
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A Short History of Java
Java became a phenomenon that won hearts and minds and changed the rules of enterprise programming. The first decade of Java is a history of rapid... more »
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PHP on the Desktop: PHP-GTK 2 is Here!
After a long development and QA cycle, we are proud to release version 2.0 of PHP-GTK. This release, named leap day special, marks PHP-GTK 2 as stable... more »
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Software Development in the Mines of Moria
The one characteristic all the "Moria" projects have in common is that at the time of their development, they were always developed using the 'hot... more »
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The X++ Programming Language
X++ is Microsoft's object-oriented language with similarities to C++ and Java for MorphX, a platform for constructing complex accounting and business... more »
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Mozilla Prism - written by people who don’t hate the web
Ian Bicking: "To me Silverlight and AIR reek of a distaste for the web. So it is with great delight that I read the announcement of Mozilla Prism: a... more »
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