The State of Java Build Systems « Unmaintainable
Most people eventually get it that building release artifacts using their IDEs is not the way to nirvana. Builds have to stay stable and reproducible... more »
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Unsigned comparison in Java/Scala
Java (and consequently Scala) lack unsigned integer types. Most of the time this isn’t an issue - the majority of the operations you’re likely to care... more »
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Grails and Facebook Part 2 - The App
Writing Facebook applications in grails.
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Top 10 Things I do on Every Project
Here is a list of things I do on every project these days and I highly recommend that you do the same. The result is that: (1) It is very easy for new... more »
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50 Firefox 3 Add-ons That Will Change the Way You Surf the Web
Out of the box, Firefox 3 is already an incredible web browser. But when you consider all of the power tools that can be added to it, it's even... more »
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Groovy vs. F# Showdown - Side by Side Comparison
A side by side comparison of a solution to a problem using Groovy (in a functional style) and F# (the functional OCaml derivative for .NET). A fair... more »
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Ethan Nicholas's Blog: Introducing Java CSS
A new CSS engine for Java which makes it simple to apply styles to your Swing (and eventually JavaFX) programs. With advanced features like... more »
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John Resig - Firebuggin'
I've got a mini-announcement. Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla... more »
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Javascript Tutorial - Radial Menus Part 1
Sometimes, user interfaces can be really constraining. A whole lot of stuff to do, and not nearly enough pixels to do it in. In regular desktop... more »
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Get a free JavaRebel license
We will give away 50 personal JavaRebel licenses to those who register first. Also personal licenses will be discounted to $49 until the end of... more »
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State Observation: The Good (JXI), Bad (JMX), Ugly (JMX)
One of the most common usages of JMX is to make instances of a particular object and its associated state visible from a remote machine for... more »
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Top 10 Java Performance Troubleshooting Tools
Here are 10 tools useful for Java application performance troubleshooting!
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JavaScript Micro-Templating
I've had a little utility that I've been kicking around for some time now that I've found to be quite useful in my JavaScript application-building... more »
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A Simple CSS Layout Explained
I wanted to use simple CSS layout: header, body, footer, with the footer at the bottom even if the body is short. I found a clean, straightforward way... more »
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Wikipedia: Unusual Software Bug
Heisenbugs, Bohrbug, Mandelbugs, Schroedinbugs, Stotle, Phase of the moon bugs, Statistical bugs, Ghost in the code !
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Lightweight SQL Interfaces for Java Development
I previously blogged about the shortcomings of JDBC and its way of passing SQL statements as strings without any compile-time checking or type safety.... more »
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Gmail Architecture Part 1
Gmail is the best web application I have ever seen. Simple implementation, Ajax, Chat, Status Messages, Fast Mail retrieval, live updating and its... more »
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Gears 0.3 Released, and Google I/O videos on Ajax related content available
Some good stuff came out from my employer. First, we have the Gears 0.3 release which includes support for Firefox 3! I have been using it for awhile,... more »
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List of Free Java Decompilers
List of all free downloadable decompilers for Java. They will convert class files back to readable initial Java source code.
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Google I/O Conference Videos available: GWT Extreme!
In this presentation, I demo GwtQuery (jQuery clone in GWT), High Performance graphics including Chronoscope rendering a chart of 1+million plus... more »
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Mascara: Putting lipstick on JavaScript?
Mascara is the latest in a “Write code in X and translate it to JavaScript” system to be launched. Mascara calls out systems like GWT, Script#, and... more »
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JJTree Tutorial for Advanced Java Parsing
JJTree is magically powerful, but it is as complex. This by-example tutorial gets you to building complex grammars quickly.
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Google's GWT continues to amaze and delight
Javascript as a language misses a lot of the constructs that modern day object orientated languages have. Defining a class in Javascript is not an... more »
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Working with the GWT shell
The GWT shell is one of the most important components GWT provides, and one you’ll use every day when developing GWT applications.The shell is... more »
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JSuggest: The open source auto-complete solution for java and GWT
The complete suggestions framework for java, supporting single and multi field suggest, java suggest box, client/server with hessian or json-rpc, and... more »
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