Killing Ontologies - OWL In The Semantic Web?
Friday, I wrote a piece about my belief that we need to rename and reposition the Semantic Web as The Graph Web. My position is that the Semantic Web... more »
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Solving 5 Common CSS Headaches
"CSS is a relatively simple language to learn. Mastering it, on the other, can prove a little more difficult. Compensating for various browser... more »
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Java Riddle: Static Members in Inner Classes?
Here's something that can annoy the most experienced Java developers and is guaranteed to make people to mumble in job interviews (if that's your... more »
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The problem with #define
Why C's #define directive can be dangerous
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An Introduction to Real-Time Java Technology: Part 2, Garbage Collection and the Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS)
Umberto Zappia 
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There are several different approaches to scheduling GC within a real-time environment, each with benefits and weaknesses. These include work-based... more »
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From OSGi to GlassFish in 5 Steps
Creating an OSGi bundle and deploying it to GlassFish.
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Open Source Support: Important but Lagging
Is the availability and usefulness of open source support lagging behind its desirability? That's one of the messages that it's possible to get from a... more »
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TechCrunch Wants a Tablet
A recent blog entry by Michael Arrington has stirred up some discussion around the web. Basically, it's a plea that someone design and build a $200... more »
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Tutorials | PureMVC Roundup
Today i bring you some cool tutorials, tips and examples about PureMVC. If you don’t know what this framework is, we can describe it in a simple way... more »
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Optimising Computer Programs for Performance
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I’ve recently been working on a small Java simulation program that is going to take a long time to execute each time it runs. Basically, it does the... more »
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Cog Closures Part II - the Bytecodes
In the post before last we saw the closure design in Cog and its prototype implementation above an unmodified VM. This post looks at the opcodes used... more »
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Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know
The future of software development is about good craftsmen. With infrastructure like Amazon Web Services and an abundance of basic libraries, it no... more »
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Google Collections to the rescue
A few days ago, I was writing a piece of code that turned a line at a time into an Object. And it was using iterators. I had a RecordStream, which... more »
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Sometimes You Have to Say No to Your Users
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The customer is not always right. The truth is you have to sort out who’s right and who’s wrong for your app,” advises 37signals in their book Getting... more »
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Is Anyone Using the Google Web Toolkit?
After seeing some applications from Google and participating in the Google Codejam (which seems to be built using the GWT), I kind of expected to see... more »
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Build a Web 2.0 Voting Widget with Flex: Part I
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There are few things that people like to do more than give their opinion about a subject of interest to them—especially on the Web. This can be very... more »
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JavaScript Event Delegation is Easier than You Think
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If you’re into adding a little JavaScript interactivity to your web pages you may have heard of JavaScript event delegation and thought it was one of... more »
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Semantic Web: What Is The Killer App?
The Semantic Web has been in the making for some time and people think it is nearing maturity. We have written about this trend extensively, with our... more »
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OFX4J: Java Web Service APIs for Interfacing with Financial Institutions
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OFX4J is a Java implementation of Open Financial Exchange, which defines web service APIs for interfacing with financial institutions. The OFX4J... more »
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Software Development: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back.
At the office, we, the Web Services team form a team of four people who handle the core data storage and communications centre for the companies main... more »
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Pivot: A Practical Example, Part 4 - Data Binding
This is the fourth in a series of five articles that walk through the implementation of a simple but practical Pivot application called Stock Tracker.... more »
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Silverlight and Multi Touch Tablets
Web & Multi-Touch Tablets are getting a lot of buzz recently. This article is about how Silverlight fits into the upcoming re-launch of the Web... more »
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Code Access Guide to Eclipse 3.4
This article describes how to access the Eclipse source code, how to use the Plug-in Spy to identify a plug-in which is responsible for a certain part... more »
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Unit Test Boundaries
One principle to follow when writing a unit test is that a unit test should ideally not cross boundaries.
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BDD with ease with Easyb
[...] Enter Easyb. Easyb is a BDD framework for Java. Basically, you describe your class's intended behaviour in a simple domain-specific language,... more »
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