Case study: Is PHP embarrasingly slower than Java?
IP2C is a small library that provides IP to country resolution. It uses the free ip-to-country database. There is a PHP and Java frontends to query... more »
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MOAR Rabbits! Dwemthy's Array in Java Refactored
Dwemthy's Array is an uber-geeky text based adventure game with a specific coding challenge built in, and is particularly suited to implementation... more »
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Animated Progress Bars Using MooTools: dwProgressBar
I love progress bars. It's important that I know roughly what percentage of a task is complete. I've created a highly customizable MooTools progress... more »
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A week of symfony #79 (30 june -> 6 july 2008)
After months of development, symfony published its long-awaited 1.1.0 version during this week. Furthermore, symfony project achieves its maturity... more »
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HashMap.get() can cause an infinite loop!
Yes, it is true. HashMap.get() can cause an infinite loop. Everyone I’ve talked to didn’t believe it either, but yet there it is — right in front of... more »
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MySQL 6.0.5-alpha Released
MySQL 6.0.5-alpha, a new version of the MySQL database system including the Falcon transactional storage engine, has been released.
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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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Java XML Libraries Quick Reference
Recently i have been involved in a project that uses heavy XML which game me opportunity to look into many Java and XML related... more »
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Screencast: Developing Swing with JavaRebel
We prepared a short screencast that demonstrates how easy it is to develop Swing applications with JavaRebel. We used the simple Metalworks example (a... more »
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Re: Which is the hottest Java framework?
The "Break it Down" Blog has a lengthy post on Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java? Comparing Java Web Frameworks is hard... more »
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Scala Goes Dynamic with JavaRebel
We decided that we can facilitate the Scala adoption by putting its productivity on par with the dynamic languages. To do that we have created a... more »
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Consice EDSL Closures in Java
The problem with Java “closures” aka anonymous inner classes being a tad too ugly is a well known one, but this semi-solution seems to be quite... more »
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JavaRebel 1.1 Released
ZeroTurnaround has announced the final release of JavaRebel 1.1. JavaRebel is a JVM plugin (-javaagent) that enables reloading changes made to Java... 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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Scala LiftOFF Unconference Announcement
The Scala lift off is be a great place for members of the Scala and lift communities to get together, learn about Scala, learn about lift and get... more »
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JavaRebel and Jersey
This entry explains how to dynamically reload the Jersey deployed web application in response to callbacks from JavaRebel when in detects changes 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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Google AppEngine - Lolcat and COBOL support
So we have a cloud, we have python and we have DB access. People want MORE!
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How-to: Zero turnaround with unexploded development
The latest release of JavaRebel introduced two new approaches for achieving zero turnaround. Even if you have deployed your EAR/WAR/JAR as archives... more »
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HsqlDB DOS attack
I was just fiddling around and for some strange reason I happened to telnet to the running database. I issued two commands and BOOOM!
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JavaRebel 1.1-M3 Released
The latest development version of JavaRebel features two most requested improvements:
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If a programming language was a boat…
This one is inspired by a recent forum post, that still leaves me in amazement. Hi, Im wondering how i can create a boat in turing and if... more »
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Poorly formatted code costs you money
Why coding standards are more than a question of aesthetics, and not following them can be an expensive exercise.
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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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