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Why Grails?
November 4th, 2010
Overview of benefits of using Grails and Groovy on web development projects.
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Performance tuning-when, how and who
October 29th, 2010
Taking care performance requirements for applications and planning for those are as important as managing other functional requirements of an application. If not done properly, it can break your application even after building a functional application (but not performing one). In this posting I try to outline a practical approach of handling performance requirements.
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FireFox Development Tools that Actually Get Used
October 22nd, 2010
A list of FireFox extensions that I use (daily, weekly, or monthly) to streamline web application development.
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Grails Plumbing: Spring AOP Interceptors
October 19th, 2010
Overview of how to use Spring AOP Interceptors and DailyRollingFileAppender in your Grails Project
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Keep Your Code Clean
October 14th, 2010
Theres no excuse for not cleaning up when making code changes. A simple rule to follow is that there should be no compiler warnings in your code!
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Update: Fast path switching between projects
October 12th, 2010
Yesterday I overheard a couple co-workers talking about this cool script they found for quickly switching between development projects. Turns out they were talking about my old post so I thought I’d share the latest version of the script. Back in…
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How to write a Technical Resume
September 24th, 2010
Writing a resume can be challenging, and you probably get tons of varying advice from lots of different people. There really isnt one way to write a resume, but there are a lot of ways to write an incorrect one. Take bits and pieces of the advice you get, and mold that advice into your own style and resume. Ill cover the basics (cover letter, summary, technical skills section, professional experience, education, and font/formatting), but dont be afraid to add your own touch beyond the basics.
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Communicating with external devices from the iPhone and iPad
September 14th, 2010
Using the External Accessories Framework, added in iOS 3.0, iPad and iPhone developers can build apps that communicate with external devices.
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Remotely Back-up Subversion Repository
September 2nd, 2010
It happens from time-to-time and for a variety of reasons that one might want to have a back-up of a Subversion repository.
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Embracing Mylyn
August 26th, 2010
Using the powerful task-focused interface provided in Eclipse, project and application lifecycle management can be eased.
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Gaining Access to the Spring Context in Non Spring Managed Classes
August 23rd, 2010
There are times where it’s not practical (or possible) to wire up your entire application into the Spring framework, but you still need a Spring loaded bean in order to perform a task. JSP tags and legacy code are two such examples. Here is a…
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Mimicking External Actions With EasyMock
August 19th, 2010
Validate the information contained in a local object when passing through a mocked method, and afffect it as an external system would be expected to.
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Integrating OpenSSO/OpenAM with Liferay Portal on Tomcat
August 16th, 2010
Integrate OpenSSO/OpenAM with Liferay Portal on Tomcat to achieve single-signon.
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Spring @PathVariable Head-slapper
August 12th, 2010
A simple oversight in the documentation and potentially unnecessary default in the Spring @PathVariable annotation can cause runtime trouble.
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Developer Bits on Sustainable Computing
August 9th, 2010
Thoughts on what software developers can do to advance the concept of sustainable computing.
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How Do Annotations Work?
August 6th, 2010
A quick trip through some examples of how to define, find, and ultimately use annotations to get work done on diverse classes.
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Packaging your Java application for the Mac
August 3rd, 2010
The Mac has some nice tools to turn your jar file into a first class Mac application. This is most useful if the application has a GUI interface; Swing, SWT, etc. There are three parts to this process: Package your application as a jar file Create an…
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Sun Java 1.6.0_21 Not Detected By Eclipse
July 30th, 2010
A quick-fix to get Eclipse running again after an automatic update makes the Sun JVM again undetectable.
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The Complete Team
July 27th, 2010
In a team environment, the better a developer is at collaborating and working with others, the better the project will turn out.
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Highlights of HTML5
July 20th, 2010
The HTML5 specification has been in the works for several years and is getting close to reaching completion. This article gives a quick overview of what to look forward to when HTML5 is officially completed.
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Spring Release v3.0.3
July 9th, 2010
Spring released version 3.0.3 of the Spring Framework
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Ten Minutes With Eclipse Helios
July 6th, 2010
On June 23rd, Eclipse launched their new release (v3.6), named Helios. Heres (good) impressions after playing with it for about ten minutes.
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Usage Patterns for Gaelyk
June 29th, 2010
pre { border: solid 1px black; font-size: 1.3 em; color: black; margin: 10px; padding:10px; background: #CCCCCC; } Using Groovy on Google App Engine is relatively simple due to Groovy’s compatibility with Java. However, until recently, the…
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