First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC
Today, the news broke that the HTC Dream, the first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents... more »
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36 Font Resources You Should’ve in Your Bookmarks
One of the hardest thing in designing is looking for that perfect font. A good font can really make or break a great concept. Here i’ve listed 36 Font... more »
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Google's unhappy Android developers
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Controversy around its SDK, rumors of a Symbian tie-up, and the iPhone's star power call the mobile OS into question
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IntelliJ IDEA 7.0.4 is out!
For all of us, happy users of the best Java IDE, today is the good day - JetBrains released another version of IDEA 7. "In this release you will find... more »
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Python Never bites
who uses python and why should i use python ?
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Why Open Source Succeeds Where Offshore Fails
Many people consider keeping the "whole team together" an essential part of any software development effort. But if this practice is so critical, how... more »
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Harder Than it Should be - Hibernate Maven POM Dependencies
One of the things I wanted to add to the 'Enterprise JPA' session was to show some reuse of JPA persistent objects with other frameworks,... more »
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The End Of Dependency Injection
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Dependency Injection is a common technique in Java applications. I have a long history of Java development in a Test Driven Development environment... more »
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Eight Reasons to Migrate to NetBeans 6.5
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NetBeans is also enjoying part of the "8" fortune. NetBeans 6.5 Beta is almost ready for release, and more and more users are choosing NetBeans as... more »
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Design Patterns - State Pattern
It's been a while again, but it's time for another pattern. Today we'll look at the State Pattern. First of all, the definition: "Allow an object... more »
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Cargo Cult Methodology: How Agile Can Go Terribly, Terribly Wrong
Agile methodologies seemed like a good idea to this software development team. But when the company doesn't sincerely accept the change in work style,... more »
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Involvement: Why I Love Open Source
Kirill Grouchnikov via community.joomla.org
What is really satisfying is getting sufficiently involved in a project to be able to have a direct influence on it, as I am with "Joomla!". It's... more »
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Factors influencing Cache Design
This post talks about the various dimensions that should be carefully examined before deciding upon the caching strategy. I would like to argue that... more »
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Top Screencast Sites for Open-Source Developers
While I appreciate (and read) many books and blogs, and even listen to several podcasts having to do with my favorite open-source technologies, I have... more »
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The 'Anti-Java' Professor and the Jobless Programmers
Actually, this top computer science professor isn’t exactly ‘anti-Java’ – but he deplores its effect on CS studies. And he sees dark clouds ahead if... more »
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Don't Be Afraid to Comment Thy Code
Why it's okay to use comments, even though the man will tell you it's wrong.
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Groovy Eclipse plugin updated to Groovy 1.5.6 and Eclipse 3.4
The Groovy Eclipse team released an updated version of the Groovy Eclipse plugin.
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Slap your Java code hard with Maven and PMD
A quick and dirty guide on troubleshooting your code with Maven and PMD.
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Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture
Domain driven design can be most readily applied to stable domains in which the key activity is for developers to capture and model what is in users'... more »
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Java is not Object Oriented
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The Java programming language is one of the most taught, learned, written about, and programmed in programming languages today. Beginning its life in... more »
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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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Martin Fowler on Syntactic Noise
A common phrase that's bandied about when talking about DomainSpecificLanguages (or indeed any computer language) is that of noisy syntax. People may... more »
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Visual SourceSafe: A Public Service Announcement
Sure it was slow, but we could wait. And it only worked on Windows, but we were all running NT 4.0 anyway. And sometimes the repository would get... more »
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Criticisms of Spring
The Spring Framework is popular. It has also met with a disturbing lack of criticism. The following remarks are based on Spring 2.0. Spring is huge,... more »
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Book Excerpt and Interview: Effective Java, Second Edition
Effective Java, Second Edition by Joshua Bloch is an updated version of the classic first edition. Addison-Wesley, made an excerpt available to InfoQ... more »
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