Paying The Price for JavaFX
They say every silver lining has a cloud. We all got quite excited about JavaFX finally giving us Java across an array of devices and great video... more »
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Party Of One: Surviving A Hobby Open-Source Project
Last week’s JavaOne had a separate track on open source, and there’s been a substantial number of very interesting panels, discussions and... more »
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Avoid getting taken Hostage by your Developer
Perhaps I'm asking for trouble by posting this at Dzone, but I don't think so. I see too many unscrupulous developers who hold their clients hostage... more »
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Sun is bleeding; More engineers leave as JavaFX is pimped
I talked about how I thought Sun was drowning back when Chet Haase left Sun and joined the Flex team at Adobe. It wasn’t that without Chet Sun was... more »
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Facebook Drops Java Support - Loses Another $1B of Fantasy Valuation
This just in from the Facebook-PR-flacks-writing-pure-dross department: "We appreciate all of the effort and time that you've (Java developers, that... more »
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Dynamic Languages Strike Back
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Some guys at Stanford invited me to speak at their EE Computer Systems Colloquium last week. Pretty cool, eh? It was quite an honor. I wound up giving... more »
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Easy Scroll: Accessible Content Scroller
t has been a while since I presented some unobtrusive (hopefully useful) JavaScript function. Recently I have been working on a project that demanded... more »
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Creating a playing bot in Java
Learn to create a playing bot for online casinos...use at your own risk!
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Reading Microsoft Word Document in JAVA
When it comes to reading Microsoft Office Word document Java does not have any in build classes to handle this but Apache POI Package developed by... more »
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Bending Java: More readable code with methods that do nothing?
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From the category “Bending Java near it’s Breaking Point” or “What a stupid but interesting idea”. I like to explore ideas in Java that are inside the... more »
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Measuring Programmer Job Satisfaction
Are you satisfied with your job? How can hackers become more satisfied with what they do? The article breaks down the main indicators of job... more »
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It's Your Bug. But It's Not Your Job Anymore.
If a previous employer called to ask you about a bug in the code you'd written for them, how much time and energy would you be comfortable investing... more »
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An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We Program
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I was talking to a colleague from another part of the company a couple of weeks ago, and I mentioned the famous ten-to-one productivity variation... more »
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Java: Beautiful enums
Whatever complaints you may have against java, I think you have to grant that at least enums are a thing of beauty.
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Never, never, never use String in Java (or at least less often :-)
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Never, never, never use (unwrapped) String or long or int. Why? Those primitive types have no semantic meaning. They are hard to understand, hard to... more »
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How Hard To Develop Applications For Grid?
Not hard, not at all. If you know how to do thread programming in Java – you already know pretty much everything about how to program for the grid... more »
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Javascript Wolfenstein 3D
An implementation of Wolfenstein 3D using Javascript and Canvas.
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Java 6 on Mac. Worst release ever.
Java 6 on Mac is flawed. Read on why.
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Architecture astronauts take over (Joel on Software)
That's one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian... more »
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Subversion’s Future?
According to Google Analytics, one of the most heavily trafficked posts on my blog is the one I wrote years ago, the Risks of Distributed Version... more »
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Why I’m a better software developer than you
What makes one developer better than another? Shouldn’t we all be performing at the same level? Of course not, we’re not sewing buttons on an assembly... more »
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Java 6 (finally) for Mac... now what?
Available via to Software Update, Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This version of Java is only for Mac OS... more »
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45 Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop
A collection of 45 of the best tutorials you'll find for editing images and creating effects with photos.
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Incompetent American Programmers
Larry O'Brien sounds off on how common it is that he encounters people who have no respect for the activity (software development) that he loves. ... more »
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Websites you shouldn’t have missed in April 2008
Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics and articles we have found in April that is worth your time.
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