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Scratch Where It's Itching | Java | Wednesday February 15, 2012 | By ethdsy

Thanks to Alexis Lopez and his blog , I discovered a new method that appeared in the Exception class in Java 7: getSuppressed() . According to the JavaDoc, this method was added because of the new try-with-resource feature. A common trap of using Java IO can...

In corridge groovy | Java | Wednesday February 15, 2012 | By thnagy

Just finished porting some java source file generation (we generate Rowmappers as part of our custom ORM framework) to Groovy. A few higlights: Defined a simple generic JavaSourceBuilder using groovy's built-in BuilderSupport So code that...

Rob Williams' Blog | Java | Tuesday February 14, 2012 | By robwilliams

@Rules are no doubt a good idea. But let me first be my usual critical self. The way they were rolled out as part of the 4.x train makes The Herminator look like Master of Festivities as Buckingham Palace. First off, what on earth is the basis of that name??...

Jorgen Rapp's Weblog | unix | Monday February 13, 2012 | By jrapp

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Anylabs SEO & Social Blog Marketing | Java | Saturday February 11, 2012 | By evans

In the last 12 months or so I have been experimenting with videos to help promote my product sites and blogs. One of the reasons I jumped onto video bandwagon is that Google's recent changes and crawling patterns have increasingly been ranking pages with...

Rob Williams' Blog | Java | Wednesday February 08, 2012 | By robwilliams

Having succumbed quite often to the need to rant, it was with great pleasure that I plowed through this evisceration of maven as a build tool. For those of you who don't salivate at the prospect of a long slog through a field of nattering nabobs of...

Rob Williams' Blog | Java | Tuesday February 07, 2012 | By robwilliams

Ah the joys of dependency management. You see, Friend, what this all does for you is it, well, manages all your dependencies, because of course, you shouldn‘t want to have to do that yourself! As is so often the case, for the promise of a brief respite...

Anylabs SEO & Social Blog Marketing | Java | Sunday February 05, 2012 | By evans

Today’s leading SEO Book, SEO Made Simple: Search Engine Optimization Strategies for Dominating the World’s Leading Search Engine, 2nd Edition, is a tell-all search engine optimization guide for anyone trying to reach the highly coveted #1 ranking on Google...

JRoller Online Book Reviews | Java | Saturday February 04, 2012 | By evans

Beginning Android 4 Games Development offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You’ll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress toward creating your own basic game engine and...

Santhosh Kumar's Weblog jlibs | Java | Thursday February 02, 2012 | By santhosh

JLibs: Updates to XMLDog XMLDog now supports: - return DOM Nodes for XPath results - InstantResults: notify as nodes are hit (suitable for heavy xml documents) - Command line utility to play

Rob Williams' Blog | Technology | Thursday February 02, 2012 | By robwilliams

It‘s totally crazy that in 2012 there are so few good choices for modeling tools. I got encouraged for a minute today when I found a thread on Stack Overflow that included a bunch of products and I found out about SparxSystems‘ System Architect ....

Rob Williams' Blog | Technology | Wednesday February 01, 2012 | By robwilliams

A lot has been written about Lion Server. First there were a lot of people who came running into the room screaming about how the interface to it had been dumbed down to the point of useless cartoon. Then there were a bunch of reviews saying the idea of the...

JPPF Blog | Java | Wednesday February 01, 2012 | By lolocohen

What is possible? Simple master/worker topology In its initial design, JPPF is a distributed parallel processing framework based on a master/worker architecture. A JPPF grid is made of 3 sorts of components that communicate with each other: clients...

Santhosh Kumar's Weblog jlibs | Java | Tuesday January 31, 2012 | By santhosh

JLibs: Updates to DAOPattern DAOPattern now supports: - quoting identifiers (table/column names) - support for database specific sql types - validating database schema with pojo definitions at compile time

Weirdest Undreamt Use Case | Linux | Tuesday January 31, 2012 | By robertburrelldonkin

Thanks to great work by the communities over at FUSE and libimobiledevice , mounting your iPhone on Gentoo is smooth — provided your avoid a Doh! or two. Here's the recipe I use. Gentoo Prep The Gentoo box needs: ...

Santhosh Kumar's Weblog jlibs | Java | Monday January 30, 2012 | By santhosh

JLibs: Generating Sample XML from given XMLSchema File Generating Sample XML from given XMLSchema File

Sebastian Kübeck's Weblog | Developer | Sunday January 29, 2012 | By sebastianKuebeck

Michael Feathers keynote 'Code Blindness' from Rocky Mountain Ruby 2011: His own comment on this talk on twitter: I'm often v. critical of my talks, but I really like this one.

Cedric Champeau's Weblog compilation groovy programming static | Java | Sunday January 29, 2012 | By melix

Static compilation or no static compilation? In my previous blog post , I published a link to the slides from my talk at the Paris Groovy and Grails User Group, where I presented the state of static type checking and compilation for Groovy 2.0. This talk...

Money, Blogging and Java | Java | Saturday January 28, 2012 | By evans

First impression: I can't believe this packaging! The box sure is fancy. Much more importantly, I got not one, but two very nice carrying cases for these earphones: one has a magnetic clasp, the other has a spring-loaded clasp. Not much cost-cutting here. ...

Hazem Ahmed Saleh Blog 7.5 bpm crimc1017e designer ibm integration websphere wid | Java | Thursday January 26, 2012 | By Hazem

I wrote this post in my new wordpress blog here: http://www.technicaladvices.com/2012/01/27/crimc1017e-failed-to-locate-0-resolution/

< ejblog /> spring | Java | Thursday January 26, 2012 | By ejboy

H2 is bundled with a built-in connection pool implementation. The following XML provides an example of using it as a Datasource bean without a need to introduce additional dependencies on DBCP or C3P0:     <bean id="dataSource"...

Rob Williams' Blog | Technology | Wednesday January 25, 2012 | By robwilliams

I put a Sonos system in our office 3 years ago. I‘ve had some gripes, but overall it has been really good. It‘s still better than iTunes, and mostly for stupid reasons, like Apple not adding a queue and the fact that doing multiple rooms with Apple...

Rob Williams' Blog | Technology | Wednesday January 25, 2012 | By robwilliams

To say that Apple‘s foes have misread it is the understatement, perhaps of all time, not just the technology era. The weasely geek narrative has been that Apple is a walled garden and will be easy kill as soon as the open source/free guys run it down....

Una tazza di caffé | Java | Monday January 23, 2012 | By neugens

On the road, again and again :) I finally decided to accept a great opportunity at Red Hat and signed with them! I will join the Java Team with Andrew[s] and Deepak and all the other great hackers in a really cool team. I'm not the only new joiner, and it's...