Writing Goolge App Engine in Java
Explains how is it possible to write Application to Google App Engine in Java Programming Language
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Okay, Grails, That Was Cute: Taglibs
Grails just had its time — taglibs. Now, because of the pain of JSP tag libraries, I’ve avoided anything that sounded anything like UI taglibs. But, I... more »
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Gant with Hudson in 5 steps
Gant is a Groovy-based build system that uses Ant’s extensive collection of flower power tasks without all of the nasty XML– this enables you to... more »
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Stop picking on Groovy Eclipse
... or better yet, help it out. Let's recap a bit on the state of Groovy support in the 3 mayor IDEs.
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Refactoring Ugly Groovy Code
A few weeks ago I was writing a method in Groovy that needed to return three different results, two strings and one array. As I was writing it, I said... more »
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Greet - A Groovy Twitter Client
The demo application from the Groovy SwingBuilder Tech Session at JavaOne 2008 is now runnable via WebStart. (note to self, link to SDN site when the... more »
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Are There Too Many Women in IT?
The various efforts to boost the number of women in IT are well intentioned but doomed to failure.
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Open Source Troubleshooting for Java
VisualVM is an OpenJDK project from Sun to create an all-in-one troubleshooting tool for Java applications. The tool is a combination of several... more »
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Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped
I talked about how I thought Sun was drowning back when Chet Haase left Sun and joined the Flex team at Adobe. It wasn’t that without Chet Sun was... more »
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Terracotta: 1, Grails Searchable Plugin+Me: 0
I’m on a quest to figure out how to cluster the Grails Searchable plugin that’s based on Lucene/Compass across multiple nodes with as little intrusion... more »
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Introducing Database Security
For a database application, all security in the end becomes a question of who can read and write to what tables. While this is obvious to veteran... more »
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Writing a Simple Issue Tracker in Grails, Part 2
This is the long overdue follow up to my Writing a Simple Issue Tracker in Grails post. In this post I'll be detailing how to add security with the... more »
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Why are you still not using Hudson?
This week Hudson was awarded the Duke’s Choice Award in the Developer Solutions category at JavaOne. In the space of a couple of years, Hudson has... more »
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What is Java good at
Java was the language designed for us to figure out what was going wrong at compile time not run time. We were supposed to be able to not have to... more »
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Practice Of Writing Excellent Code By Pete Goodlife
Tries to hightlight Code Monkeys chapter in this book.
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The JVM is Great, But...
Much of the interest in dynamic languages like Groovy, JRuby, and Scala comes from running on the JVM. That lets them leverage the tremendous R&D... more »
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Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Scala: Who Wins the Script Bowl?
Wednesday's Script Bowl was indeed what the caption promised, a rapid-fire comparison of scripting languages. Four developers took on the... more »
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JavaOne: Geert Bevin on Java as API
Actually Geert’s talk was called “Boldly Go Where Java Has Never Gone Before” but to me it was really centered on the idea of Java-the-language as... more »
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SpringSource Application Platform + Bundle Repository
Viewpoint on Spring S2AP and OBR announcements from OSGi Alliance's senior architect
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JavaFX Showcase: Should you care to see it?
JavaFX.com is up and running! The problem is that it doesn’t work well on most browsers. The small fonts are unreadable when viewed in FireFox or... more »
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Scripting Hadoop Jobs in Groovy
via A tool for those groups that need to expose Hadoop to the 'casual' user who needs to get and manipulate valuable data on a Hadoop cluster, but doesn't... more »
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CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications
CommunityEngine is a free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. Drop it into your new or existing application, and you’ll... more »
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Looking Forward to JPA 2.0
The Java Persistence API (JPA), version 1.0, released in May 2006 as part of the Java EE 5 platform, represented a significant leap forward for... more »
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3 Golden Rules For Working From Home
One of the great things about working from your own home is freedom. Freedom to start work when you want, wear what you want and work the hours that... more »
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Updates on Modularity in the Java platform
An update on the JSR 294 (superpackages) and JSR 277 (modularity) direction for Java 7
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