Changing Spring configuration without restarts
Beta release of JavaRebel Spring plugin lets you skip redeploy even when changing Spring configuration files or using the new annotation based... 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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The 8 ball problem - the test most CS people fail...
Is your mind like every one else in computer science?? or are you able to solve this small logic puzzle?? most people in computer science gets this... more »
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First milestone of the JavaRebel 1.2 development branch available
The new release includes a reworked SDK that allows creating plugins for easier integration with third-party frameworks or containers. We have also... more »
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JavaRebel for Open Source Development
JavaRebel for Open Source Development
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Dependency Hell reaching new heights?
The problem with Maven ... and the opportunity with OSGi
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Concise Embedded DSL Closures in Java
This trick was pointed to me (without the ThreadLocal part) by Rein Raudjärv, who saw it used in jMock. The problem with Java “closures” aka... more »
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JavaRebel and the Scala Interpreter (Can your interpreter do this?)
A week ago I went to the Scala Liftoff Unconference, which was a pretty fun time. At some point I'll write about a conversation I had with Greg... more »
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Scala to get binary compatibility
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I sat down with Martin Odersky yesterday and talked about the issues that bothered me in Scala. Turns out that the main reason for the lack of binary... more »
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What to See at JavaOne 2008?
JavaOne is a week away. Time to come up with a set of recommendations for "must see" talks on specific tools and technologies that will be presented... more »
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Functional programming might be the next big shift in general purpose development paradigms.
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The other day I realized a trend that may be decisive for the evolution of our development environment in general: Functional Programming! It is... more »
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An embedded Java DSL for manipulating hierarchical JavaBeans
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Just yesterday I was thinking on how to improve the DSLs I’m working on at the moment and got an idea, which wasn’t too useful in the context of SQL,... more »
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Mixed feelings adding Groovy support
How good is Groovy? How good was for me? IWebMvc has preliminary Groovy support (compiled scripts) and I learned some things adding it.
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Oh Scala, why can't I like you?
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Scala needs a celebrity, both human and digital. Ruby hooked me because it was just so danged easy to put together fancy data driven websites in Rails... more »
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I switched from Linux to Windows Server 2008
Wait, did I say that right? I thought it was supposed to be the other way around?
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You’re Fat and I Hate You
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So this has happened to me a few times recently (mentioning no names) — I read up on some neat trick or other that somebody’s figured out in... more »
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Dependency Injection Without Frameworks
The servlet has a map of requestHandlers, mapped against their urls. When it loads (init method), it makes an ApplicationAssembler and asks it to... more »
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IWebMvc receives a JavaRebel free OSS development license
ZeroTurnaround has offered IWebMvc a free OSS license of JavaRebel. Something worth a blog post. If you are a developerof an OSS project request yours... more »
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JavaRebel 1.1-M3 Released
The latest development version of JavaRebel features two most requested improvements:
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Why is Delphi Ignored?
This question has been asked repeatedly over the years. And yet, the phenomenon continues. For eight years, Delphi was vastly superior to Visual... more »
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Java job posting trends: Aug 2006 to Present
Did a jog around the internets today and found the trend graphs on SimplyHired to be, well, simply interesting in themselves.
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April 1, 2008: Recap of Big Day for Tech News
When it rains, it pours! Yesterday was a HUGE day for tech news, especially news relevant to the Java audience. It was such a huge news day, in fact,... more »
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My Bill of Rights as a Programmer
When I get hired by a new company, I want the company to know. These are my rights, Do you choose to accept them before I start working for you?
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The case against passion
Programming is not all about passion. Passion is the antithesis of good programming. To claim (or even worse, to imply) that good programmers are... more »
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