WoW! A Very Huge List of Upcoming Ruby & Rails Books in 2008
I am happy to blog about the Upcoming Ruby, Rails, IronRuby, Merb and Other Ruby related books. You will be happy and surprised to see a huge list of... more »
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Argument List Too Long Message in Linux
So, you’ve filled up a directory with so many files that executing a rm -f * tells you Argument list too long. Now what? You can run this to remove... more »
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Java game library + JRuby + awesome DSL = Gemini
I’ve been working with JRuby to build high level systems on top of powerful Java libraries for about 2 years now. My most successful endeavor has... more »
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Secure Your OpenID
There are a lot of phishing vulnerabilities with OpenID, here is a solution.
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Object Oriented JavaScript book released and Sample chapter
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Packt publishing have recently released a new and interesting JavaScript book that teaches users how to create scalable and reusable JavaScript... more »
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JBoss Cache 3.0.0 Alpha Available
The first alpha of JBoss Cache 3.0.0 - codenamed Naga - is out and available for download. In a nutshell, it is a truly open source (LGPL) distributed... more »
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Grails development made even simpler using NetBeans IDE 6.5
After having read the book Beginning Groovy and Grails: From Novice to Professional, I was wondering if it was ever going to be as simple as a few... more »
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A Domain Specific Language for Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) in PHP
Back at the start of the year I started making early releases of PHPSpec a Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) library for PHP. Regular readers are... more »
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The Undercover Adventure (Part 2): I want to know what you mean. What you meant. What you will mean. Everytime.
I am a really strong believer in validating assumptions and clearly communicating your decisions with your team before you choose to take a path in... more »
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Maven and MyEclipse Webinar (free, of course)
This Wednesday, MyEclipse will host a FREE webinar that will explore the latest features of MyEclipse 6.5, specifically Maven4MyEclipse.
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Why aren't more books written like this?
Discussing the Socratic Method.
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Six Tools for Flex and AS3 Development
A list of tools that help with Flex and AS3 development.
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A Programming Job Interview Challenge #12 - Managed and Unmanaged
The twelfth post of the series of programming job interview challenge is out, 31 readers provided answers to job interview challenge #11.
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Full-Text Search on SQLite
Although some people may be aware that SQLite supports Full-Text Search (FTS) I would guess that not many have much experience with getting it setup... more »
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First Release of Nuxeo WebEngine
WebEngine relies on the Nuxeo content infrastructure (OSGi runtime, component architecture, document repository, ECM services, etc.) to provide a... more »
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Design Patterns - Abstract Factory Pattern
Time to continue from yesterday’s Factory Method Pattern by exploring the Abstract Factory Pattern. The definition and then some code to make... more »
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How I ended up selecting Python for my latest project
A bit of an insight into the thought process leading to selection of Python from a choice set of Java, Ruby, PHP and Python, for a particular project... more »
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Microsoft’s Latest Bad Idea? ARAX - Ruby-powered AJAX
Microsoft’s got plans for Ruby beyond the fine IronRuby project in the shape of “ARAX” (Asynchronous Ruby and XML), a Ruby-flavored variety of the... more »
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I just pretend I'm in a computer hacking movie... (cartoon)
Can listening to techno increase your productivity ten-fold?
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Groovy dynamic stateless mixins
Current status and some thoughts about the future of mixins in Groovy
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Book - OSGi in Practice
I am currently in the process of writing a book on OSGi entitled “OSGi in Practice”. This will be a free book, released as a PDF under a Creative... more »
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Common REST Design Pattern
Based on the same architectural pattern of the web, "REST" has a growing dominance of the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementation these... more »
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Groovy Recipes - book review
Review of Scott Davis' 'Groovy Recipes', part of the Pragmatic Bookshelf series.
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Richard Stallman, 1st Contact
My first editor on Unix (BSD4.1) was naturally vi, much better than ed that I used before. One day, I went to a senior engineer for his wisdom and was... more »
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Enterprise Architecture: A Joke, A Failure...or an Opportunity?
Interesting discussion erupting in the EA blogosphere about what Enterprise Architecture really is. Actually, this dialog has been going on for some... more »
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