Android losing its mojo fast
Android started off being a great idea, from a great company, with lots of support from carriers and manufacturers, and an awesome $10million contest... more »
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Java going bigger, bigger, bigger
During last week's The Server Side Java Symposium in Prague, it looks like scaling is the biggest issue. I've collected some pointers from... more »
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The secret of Bill Gates' success
As Bill Gates prepares to end his full-time work at Microsoft, he tells the BBC in an interview that it wasn't just what Microsoft did, but what his... more »
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RAM is the new disk...
Jim Gray, a man who has contributed greatly to technology over the past 40 years, is credited with saying that memory is the new disk and disk is the... more »
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New Grails Mail Plugin
The new Grails Mail Plugin is really slick stuff. Very little effort has gone in to the thing so far and there is more to come but even in its current... more »
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Querying associations in Grails with HQL, Criteria and HibernateCriteriaBuilder
A thing I was playing with today was many-to-many relationships in Grails to create a Tag Cloud. To create a Tag Cloud, I must have a set of key/value... more »
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Easy Flex Applications with FlairBuilder
FlairBuilder is a simple to use online application that allows you to easily create a Flex application from scratch. You can interact with the... more »
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Grails, favicon, and urls
I’ve just spent a little too much time trying to get my favicon working properly on a new grails application.
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Laid off? The one thing you absolutely need to do if you’re rich or stupid
I like people who have no understanding of the average Joe, but preach to him anyway. They’re cute and their naivety is endearing in a certain way.
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The $100,000 Customer
Before I left the store, and the additional $200 worth of merchandise I was going to buy, I informed him, and half the store that they had just lost a... more »
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Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?
Ask any up and coming developer what they would like to do in the next year or so and you'll invariably hear: I'd like to become a Development Team... more »
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Effective Java: An Interview with Joshua Bloch
The most anticipated book among Java developers over the past few years has been the second edition of Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. The book was... more »
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[Groovy] Maven Pom to Ivy Dependencies
Last night I needed a way to quickly convert a large amount of pom dependency syntax into Ivy dependency syntax. A quick google search didn't reveal... more »
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Grails.org now powered by Grails
We've just launched a re-write of the Grails.org site in Grails. Previously the site was powered by Confluence (the Atlassian wiki), now in the spirit... more »
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Jetty Continuations
With most web applications today, the number of simultaneous users can greatly exceed the number of connections to the server. This is because... more »
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Dynamic Languages: Guide you, the Force should
Steve Yegge posted the transcript from a talk on dynamic languages that he gave at Stanford. Cedric Beust posted a response to Steve's talk,... more »
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Headius: The Road to Babel
I'm publicly announcing that we at Sun are hosting a JVM Language Summit. It's long overdue in my opinion...we should have been having these events... more »
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Response to Bile Blog's "Java haters gtfo"
A response, too long for the comments section. I think it's warranted.
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Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) + VMWare Fusion + Mono = Bliss
Want to do cross-platform development just for fun? Get a Mac!
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The advantage of Grails
This week Spring Source have released, Spring Web Flow 2, I've read release notes and this make me think about the advantage of Grails...
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BLOB vs File System Storage
Images can be stored as a database blob or in the file system. How do you decide what to choose? What are the performance impacts of each one?
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JVM Dynamic Language Shootout
The JVM's ability to support multiple languages is a facet that has only relatively recently received much emphasis from Sun. The change reflects the... more »
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No Java for iPhone
There's been a depressing amount of 'news' over the last couple of days covering a Sun Marketing Droid thinking it would be a good idea to put Java on... more »
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Farewell to the 'J' in 'JVM'?
Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, recently said, "we're just going to take the 'J' off the 'JVM' and just make it a 'VM'." What does that mean? Here several... more »
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