Deliver a Good Return of Investment Unit Testing Code
It has always been my belief that comprehensive integration/functional testing of code is far far more important/productive than to blindly try to... more »
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VisualVM, Java's own monitoring, profiling and performance analysis tool
VisualVM is better than Expensive commercial profiling and monitoring tools
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My testimonial about Hudson
I have tried some tools for Continuous Integration before, like Cruise Control and Continuum. At the time I have tested them, some years ago, the... more »
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Testing Is Overrated
Article about why user testing by itself is overrated. To produce high quality code, several quality review techniques are needed.
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Come On, Microsoft, Isn’t This a Little Ridiculous?
I started this blog last month with a series of posts on Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop, a new product released on Code Gallery and which can... more »
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JUnit vs TestNG a testing smackdown
Most developers know JUnit. Some know TestNG. You know you sjould write unit tests...but which should you choose? If you already have a suite of... more »
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Joys of JNA: Java Native Access
The Java Native Access library is a different way of accessing native code, where most of the heavy lifting is done for you. JNA almost didn't make it... more »
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Free Web Icons
Some good icons for web, most of them are good quality transparent PNG icons, so Enjoy!!!
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Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows
Mount FTP Or SFTP As A Drive In Windows. sshfs for Windows. Using mindTerm and NetDrive to mount a drive for a ssh/sftp connection.
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Why there are no networked Flash games
In short, it's near impossible to deploy one...
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Rails 10x more productive, Scala 2x. Really?
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Note that I’m not going to address the “Rails vs. Scala” debate, which would be better rephrased as “Ruby vs. Scala”, or “Rails vs. Lift or a... more »
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My Experience with Message Passing Concurrency
I'm working on a peer-to-peer file synchronization program. It's really concurrent and distributed, and it's forced me to learn a thing or two about... more »
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Ruby books, two years later (photo)
Remember Java vs. Ruby? :-P
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Your MOM Is The Future Of The Web: WebNext
Interesting article that discussed the possible next evolution of web apps.
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JSF Job trends in comparison with other web framework and ASP.net
Are you looking to know how does JSF job market compare with other frameworks like tapestry, wicket, flex, RoR and ASP.net? Then this entry is for you... more »
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Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kicks JavaServer Faces
Just for a bit of Friday fun I'd like to share the following variation on those Chuck Norris emails that I received - this time relating to Java.
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Disadvantages of Agile Software Development
Don't get me wrong. I'm a big fan of agile software development. If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll know that.But I'm not so pro-agile that... more »
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JSF 2.0 so far, in depth. A collection of links to JSF 2.0 resources
Ryan Lubke has been posting plenty of really useful content on his blog about JSF 2.0, including the series on new features in JSF 2.0. This entry... more »
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Install Ganymede on Ubuntu
Simple steps for getting the newest version of eclipse working on Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
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Introducing JavaServer Faces
In this article Babita provides a brief overview of JavaServer Faces (JSF), its components, life-cycle, and its advantages over so many frameworks and... more »
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Embedding Glassfish V3 in Unit Test - Two Jars, Three Lines Of Code And Five Seconds Start With Deployment
There is already a great blog entry about using Glassfish v3 in embedded mode (I "reused" some ideaas and even code from the post - this is how web... more »
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To JSF Or Not To JSF ...This Is The Question - or Why vi is Not Enough
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JSF programming with good tool support can be very productive (in my opinion - unbeatable). So it is absolutely possible to build from scratch a CRUD... more »
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BTrace == DTrace for Java
Last week, I was trying to nail down a bug in SunWikis that was triggered by some kind of race condition. These kinds of issues are pretty nasty,... more »
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