Distributing Air Applications in a clean, easy way
Tutorial on how to distribute AIR Applications to people that never heard of it. How to avoid to force user to install two things (AIR Runtime and the... more »
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User Stories: Three Steps to Better Presentations
As a Scrum Coach, I often take on the role of Evangelist. Monday afternoon, I explained Scrum to the Swiss Java User Group[1]. Although not my first... more »
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EJB 3.0 and Spring 2.5
Why is it that developers from these two communities don't like to see eye to eye? I have been using both Spring from its inception, and EJB's from... more »
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Running an ANT script in a .bat/.cmd file under Windows
This article explains how to run an ANT script in a .bat or a .cmd file under Windows.
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Getting and Setting Environment variables in C#
Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can... more »
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Wrapping (evil)checked exceptions in Java
There are various reasons when we have to wrap java exceptions. Often those reasons are called: Checked Exceptions. According to the definition there... more »
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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage
There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is... more »
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Data filtering using PHP's filter functions
aphpguy 
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Using PHP's filter_* functions, we can validate and sanitize data types, URLs, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, strip bad characters, and more, all... more »
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Getting Starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
A short screencast on getting starting with StructureMap -- Simple Setup Scenarios (v2.5)
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Java run-time monitoring, Part 2: Postcompilation instrumentation and performance monitoring
"Here in Part 2, I focus on methods of instrumenting Java classes and resources without modifying the original source code."
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Getting Started with JCODER
Today Java is used widely across the internet but it is also an invisible force behind many of the applications and devises that power our day-to-day... more »
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Creativity as the Root of Software Development
The basic idea of writing software is to produce code that has not been produced before. Techniques like object-orientation, component-based design,... more »
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Using Amazon S3 to backup Media Temple’s Grid (gs)
Proper backups are like eating your vegetables -- we all say we'll do it and that it is a good idea, but it is so much easier NOT to do it and eat... more »
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Java & Netbeans: Overriding paint to customize GUI components
I found that it’s somewhat tricky to override GUI components methods with Netbeans, because the IDE automatically generates the code needed for the... more »
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Java run-time monitoring, Part 3: Monitoring performance and availability of an application's ecosystem
"In this final installment, I widen the focus to present techniques for gathering performance and availability data from the application's... more »
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How to install and configure a Glassfish cluster
In the last days I tried to install and configure a Glassfish and a Liferay cluster for a client. From what I see in Internet is a lot of "old"... more »
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Database Algorithm: Sequencing Dependencies
Some database applications require you to perform a series of actions where you know only that some actions must be performed before others. Before... more »
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Converting Ext Javascript to jQuery
Provides examples of how to convert code that uses the Ext-JS library to jQuery.
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Implementing Persistent Vectors in Scala
The topic of persistent vectors is one of those odd backwaters of functional programming that few dare to approach. The basic idea behind it all is... more »
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Building an SVN Repository First Step: Unboxing the FW800 Drobo.
My home office has just about everything needed for a productive development environment. Its stocked with the essentials (test server, quality... more »
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Enterprise Libraries and OSGI
I will try here to explain why some enterprise libraries don't work with the OSGi concept. For this reason, I will create a simple Java library and... more »
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Spring-DM Getting Started
There are many different way and approaches on how to work with OSGi and Spring-DM projects. This tutorial targets developers who want to learn the... more »
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32-bit Pointers in a 64-bit World
64 bit is wonderful - no longer we are limited to a just 2GB (per Win32 process) - you can now address a full 8TB of memory (per Win64 process)...... more »
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Bad Ass Development Rig
dvanderboom via dvanderboom.wordpress.com
Follow the illustrated step-by-step assembly of a liquid-cooled, 8-core development machine based on the Intel SkullTrail motherboard, blazing fast... more »
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