Content Management Systems - a bad idea?
Discusses whether Content Management Systems area actually a good choice.
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Guy Steele on Programming Languages
Sun Fellow Guy Steele is interviewed by Floyd Marinescu, co-founder of InfoQ, and Bobby Norton of ThoughtWorks. Guy works for the Programming Language... more »
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JProbe Freeware - FREE memory analysis/profiling tool
JProbe Freeware is an Eclipse-based memory analysis tool that leverages JProbe’s superior data visualization and investigative tools to analyze and... more »
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Lazy Error Handling in Java, Part 1: The Thrower Functor
bloid 
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How many try/catch blocks have you written in your day? Hundreds? Thousands? How many of the catch blocks look exactly the same? Is try/catch... more »
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Static Members in Inner Classes? The Answer
I asked a question a few days ago, regarding static members in inner classes. I presented an example with two static members, one was integer the... more »
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Java 6 Plus Yahoo Toolbar
Java 6 Plus Yahoo Toolbar is this another crappy move by Sun?
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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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Personal Concerns About Maven
I am disappointed by the fact that Maven downloads some Jars from the Internet.
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JList + expandable = JExpandList
bloid via swing-fx.blogspot.com
An "expandable" list is a list which has a bigger selected item. A good example is the add-ons list in Firefox (Tools / Add-ons)
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Best Practices for Developing Scalable Web 2.0 Applications
This demo will show you the power of GigaSpaces' scaling, hot failover and self-healing capabilities. A sample Web application which uses Spring MVC... more »
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Goodbye Java Generics
bloid via prophipsi.blogspot.com
When generics first came out I was pretty excited. I had used templates quite extensively in C++, before I soured on C++. C++ templates are a great... more »
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Fluent Interfaces? What the .... ?!?!
A message to all you Java pundits and book authors out there: you didn't invent anything, and in fact ruined a whole lot.
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Doing it wrong: getters and setters
Every getter and setter in your code represents a failure to encapsulate and creates unnecessary coupling. A profusion of getters and setters (also... more »
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How (and why) to get started with Mercurial
Slide show that compares Mercurial (a DVCS) vs. Subversion as well as other DVCS systems like Git and Bazaar. It goes into some common usage commands... more »
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Swing links of the week: June 1, 2008
alruiz15 via pushing-pixels.org
Here are some Swing links that you might have missed during this week.
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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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Does Programming to Interfaces Buy Us Anything?
I need to butt heads with conventional coding wisdom for a minute. We've all heard that it's good to program to interfaces and not implementations,... more »
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Fixedformat4j released!
Fixedformat4j is an easy to use Java framework for working with fixed formatted text files. By annotating your code you can setup the offsets and... more »
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Spring Batch "Hello World" 1
This is an introductory tutorial to Spring Batch. It does not aim to provide a complete guide to the framework but rather to facilitate the first... more »
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A Short Primer on Java Enums - Part 2
bloid via java.dzone.com
In the first part of this article, we looked at the basics of how to use enums in Java 5. In this part, we look at some more advanced use cases,... more »
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Response to Bile Blog's "Java haters gtfo"
A response, too long for the comments section. I think it's warranted.
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JSR 308 Animosity
I’ve come across two blog posts that leave me perplexed: “When Should You Jump? JSR 308. That’s When.”, and “What Hath Java Wrought”. I don’t... more »
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Clean Shutdown of Tomcat without another JVM
bloid via groovygrails.de
I like to do things the right and clean way. And shutting down a service under Linux is done by calling the start-/stop-script under /etc/init.d with... more »
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The cost of modern software development
Geek.com is running an opinion piece on the extensive reliance of programmers today on languages like Java and .NET. The author lambastes the... more »
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