Micro Framework Plugin Architecture with Guice Multibindings

January 03, 2012 by R.J.

Google Guice (my favorite DI framework for Java) has a neat extension called "Multibindings" that allows you to auto-magically inject a collection of objects that implement a particular interface. This allows you to model SPI-style interfaces with ease.

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Google Guava and Multimaps

December 22, 2011 by R.J.

Multimaps are one of the many collections in Google Guava. I describe why you might want to use them.

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RealJenius.com - Now With Less PHP

December 04, 2011 by R.J.

The new RealJenius.com runs Play! Framework and has no database on the back-end.

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3 Weeks with CloudFlare

August 29, 2011 by R.J.

A few weeks ago I posted that I had just moved to CloudFlare for my Media Temple hosted site. Here are my experiences 3 weeks later.

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CloudFlare and Media Temple: Free Goodies

August 09, 2011 by R.J.

Media Temple is offering free integration with Media Temple-hosted sites with the CloudFlare CDN performance accelerator.

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Spark: Sinatra Goes Verbose

August 02, 2011 by R.J.

Spark is a new micro-application-server for Java that models itself after Ruby's Sinatra library. While it's still Java, it shows that minimalism is possible with this crufty old language.

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