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Opera 9.5 Now Available for Download
What an exciting day for the web and web developers everywhere. The latest version of the Opera browser Opera 9.5 has been released and as of 9:00 AM... more »
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Book Review: The ThoughtWorks Anthology
This book well justifies its addition to the prestigious ranks of Pragmatic Bookshelf. It is well taken and timely, some of the material covered is... more »
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What's Your Favorite java.net Project?
java.net seems to be a little bit underestimated. It is actually great platform for open source projects—and very easy to set up. You get SVN or CVS... more »
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Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 2
Before we begin, a quick Groovy primer. We start with the fact that Groovy is Java and Java is Groovy. If you have written Java code, you have written... more »
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Functional Web Services Testing Made Easy with SoapUI - Part 1
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and web services are becoming more and more popular in many development projects. In Java or .NET, exposing your... more »
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How to Plan Software like a Pro
Potential clients come to us every day concerned about planning their software and how to get their vision across.
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An introduction to LINQ for db4o
An article that explains and demonstrates the new LINQ implementation that comes with the open source object database "db4o".
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Spring into Seam, Part 2: When stateless and stateful collide
In the first article in this series ("Spring into Seam, Part 1: Build a Seam-Spring hybrid component"), you saw some of the details of how two popular... more »
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Programmers Don't Read Books - But You Should
If programmers don't learn from books today, how do they learn to program? They do it the old-fashioned way: by rolling up their sleeves and writing... more »
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Masters of the Void Rev. 4!
I recently revised my Masters of the Void C tutorial for Mac users. It now uses Xcode from the start, but is still the same incremental,... more »
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Groovy or JRuby?
Recently, it has become the fad to weigh in on the Groovy vs JRuby debate, usually along the lines of "Which is X?", where X is one of "better",... more »
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Ruby in Ruby--Seriously
All the attention that the various Ruby implementations are getting these days is a wonderful thing. Competition and lots of people trying out... more »
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The Cardinal Rule of Automated Testing
I’ve had numerous conversations over the past year or so with people who aren’t that familiar with writing automated tests (be they unit tests,... more »
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Doug McCune: Why I don’t read books
I’ve never read a programming book. I realized this when I got sent a promo copy of the Flex 2 with Actionscript 3 book from Friends of ED. [Side... more »
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Handy online regex tool for PHP, Perl, JS and Python
A coworker of mine has been working on a ajax enabled regex tool which lets you evaluate regex expressions in several languages (including PHP PCRE... more »
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A Great Visual Studio Add-on You Must Have
Recently I found out this great add-on for Visual Studio 2008 called PowerCommands. PowerCommands Extends the functionality of Visual Studio 2008 by... more »
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How to Start Learning Wicket with Maven & NetBeans IDE
The Wicket project's Quick Start is, conveniently, based on Maven. Why convenient? Because NetBeans IDE has great support for it. Here I show you how... more »
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Groovy Interchange Format?
Is Groovy a good way to pass complex data from one server to another (instead of JSON or XML)? If you're already using Groovy, you can use it very... more »
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Alan Cooper: Open-Source is a Sign of Failure
In the keynote where Alan Cooper proclaimed that Agile processes are bad for developing quality software, he made another provoking statement: that... more »
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On Beauty in Code
I was thinking about the topic of beautiful code this morning. There’s a lot of disagreement about what constitutes beauty in code. I’ve watched... more »
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Bigger And Better: Trends in Mobile Screen Sizes
An interesting couple of posts in the past week by Morten Hjerde, in which he compiles Norwegian usage data (mobile phones with color screens, support... more »
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Supporting OSGi Bundles in the Java Module System
A draft specification for supporting OSGi bundles in the Java Module System is put together based on the past EG discussion in particular the... more »
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ddcli: An Objective-C Command Line Application Framework
Writing GUI applications in Objective-C is easy thanks to Cocoa. It takes care of a lot of mundane things like setting up the standard main function,... more »
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Garlic Programmers for Silver Code?
I just read Larry O'Brien's article about there being no silver programmers. He makes the case that although there may be great variance in programmer... more »
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Who's driving the bus?
Here at DTS, we're very focused on consulting-type software development. As such, we have very direct access to our end users and customers. Our work... more »
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