Liquid Templating language
Liquid is an extraction from the e-commerce system Shopify. Shopify powers many thousands of e-commerce stores which all call for unique designs. For... more »
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Improving Performance via Eager Fetching in Hibernate
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My previous article started discussing Hibernate relationships, focusing on lazy versus non-lazy relationships. This article continues the theme by... more »
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Hibernate with Guice - Part II
This application uses Guice’s Dependency Injection to create the HibernateConnection-instance and the OrdersDAO-instance. You can see that... more »
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Hibernate with Guice - Part I
In this Blog you will see how to add Google-Guice functionality to a Hibernate-Application. In Part I i will introduce a simple Hibernate-Application.... more »
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Right Tool for the Job? Yeah, Right
villane via villane.wordpress.com
Frankly, I’m a bit tired of hearing the hammer and nails metaphor and “right tool for the job” from developers when they talk about programming... more »
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The Zen of GUI Programming
This article describes some important rules to follow when creating an application that contains a presentation layer.
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Gfx doodle #3
bloid via jroller.com
Back to Joshy's latest doodle, I managed to get something out after meddling with GraphicsBuilder's recent updates. So here goes
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Other languages key to Java's future
It is not the Java language that's important - it is the platform that has grown around it. That's according to one veteran of architecture, design... more »
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Erlang Musings
bloid via mykakotopia.blogspot.com
Completely bogged down buy our 2.0 release push at work, generally not a lot of time to blog these days. That combined with the Twitter micro-blog... more »
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Erlang Criticism Not Unwarranted
bloid via patricklogan.blogspot.com
Eric's post on the recent Erlang criticism and his take on the subsequent trail of mail list discussions is fairly accurate in my opinion. I posted a... more »
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Jeremy Martin: My Java 7 Wishlist
bloid via blog.jeremymartin.name
Well, the JDK7 Project is underway, and despite the fact that I am being moved into the .NET world for some new projects, I wanted to leave some... more »
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Psychology of Colour
Discussion on the use of colour in Web based user interfaces and it's impact with the audience
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Haskell: Bitesize Functional Programming: Comprehensive Comprehensions
bloid via blog.omega-prime.co.uk
As my final year undergraduate project I’ve implemented Philip Wadler’s and Simon Peyton Jones’ Comprehensive Comprehensions in the Glasgow Haskell... more »
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JavaFX Doodle #3: A Paper Cutout Demo
I just flew back from Australia where I spoke at the Sydney tech days and boy are my arms tired. Actually, it's more my legs than my arms, and... more »
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Developers to Vendors: Slow Down Already!
A common attitude among IT managers is technology exhaustion. Before they have time to discover the benefits of one product version--much less deploy... more »
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Importing an Excel Spreadsheet Using Typed DataSets and TableAdapters: Displaying the Uploaded Excel Spreadsheet
The contents of an Excel spreadsheet can be programmatically queried with code and syntax similar to that used when querying a "regular" database,... more »
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Realistic Fog/Smoke Effect
A fog and smoke effect for flash using actionscript 3
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Some Midgard roadmapping
There has been some discussion on how the different items in the Midgard roadmap fit together. Here is my company's view on how we see ourselves... more »
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ECMAScript 4 Edition Progress Spreadsheet
bloid via blogs.adobe.com
John Resig, Mozilla's JavaScript Evangelist and creator of jQuery, has created a spreadsheet to track the progress of the various implementations of... more »
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Factor: The new HTTP server, part 1
bloid via factor-language.blogspot.com
The old HTTP server served us well. It has powered and still powers several web sites which receive a lot of hits, and the API was good enough for... more »
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Superlanguages: Syntactic and Semantic Supersets of other Languages
bloid via artima.com
I propose the term "superlanguages" to describe languages with extensible syntax, designed for the implementation of domain specific embedded... more »
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Occam's Razor and UI Innovation
Our illustrious editor, Chris Adamson's blog on this years Java Posse Roundup gave me pause for thought recently. Chris outlined a session discussing... more »
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CVM JIT Constant Pool Dumps
Hello World! It's been a long time ... ummm ... like 6 months since I last wrote an entry. What can I say? That's the problem with having a day job,... more »
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fixnums in the VM
bloid via blogs.sun.com
The JVM can support fixnums and other headerless objects for the sake of these languages, and even for Java. The idea is to make ordinary object... more »
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Tiny projects keep it new
bloid via 37signals.com
When do we do our best work? When we’re excited about something. Excitement morphs into motivation. We do our best work when we’re motivated. A great... more »
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