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Track every Build Number with Maven
Read postNeed to differentiate between build numbers? Let Maven do the work for you.
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.Net Data Provider Overview
Posted 2010 Aug 5 with tags data provider, databaseRead postvar dzone_style=”2″;
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Strange Loop 2010 – Early Bird Registration
Posted 2010 Jul 30 with tags conference, strange loopRead postvar dzone_style=”2″;
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NHibernate 2 Beginner’s Guide – Book Review
Posted 2010 Jun 9 with tags book review, NHibernateRead postvar dzone_style=”2″;
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Managing Unmapped Tables with Hibernate
Posted 2010 Feb 3 with tags HibernateRead postIt’s very handy to have all your extra SQL managed by Hibernate. All you have to do is point Hibernate at a database, tell it to create your schema, and all your tables, views, stored procedures, etc. will appear.
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If You Want to Have Cities You’ve Got to Build Roads
Read postI wrote this for consideration for the upcoming 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know book. I particularly like to apply this phrase in every-day software development and could easily apply it to entrepreneurship.
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Outliers – A non technical book every freelancer/developer should read
Posted 2009 Dec 3 with tags book review, freelanceRead postReview of the book Outliers “The Story of Success” by Malcolm Gladwell. The book is NOT a 12 steps to success type book. Gladwell presents the theory that success is not a trait or a gene that only some people have. Also comments about how these ideas relate to software development.
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Software Review: ForeUI Prototyping Tool
Read postI was looking for a good prototyping tool the other day and I came across ForeUI. This little gem packs quite a punch. Whether you want to create mockups of a desktop application or a web application, ForeUI has everything you need. A six minute demo of the application can be found here. ForeUI is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, or Solaris.
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Strange Loop 2009 – Day 1
Read postBelow are my overall topics/themes I took away from the conference and some interesting points from each talk I witnessed along with links to the speaker’s site and slide show if availabe.
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NHibernate in Action – Book Review
Read postReview of the book “NHibernate In Action”. Pros & cons along with suggestions for who this book would benefit.
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Book Review: xUnit Test Patterns
Posted 2009 Aug 22Read postIf you write software, this book is an absolute must-read. If you’ve never written an automated test, it will convince you why you should. If you’re test-infected, it will give you advice and principles to follow that guide you toward more effective testing and, ultimately, more effective software.
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Configuring NHibernate in a Multiple Project Layout
Posted 2009 Aug 20 with tags .Net, NHibernateRead postI recently had to setup NHibernate in a multiple project c#, asp.net MVC solution. Since most of the tutorials and books only show a basic single project layout I thought I would post an example of how to configure NHiberate with a multi-project solution.
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Spring Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Book Review
Read postThis is a book review of Pro Java™ EE Spring Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies Implementing Java EE Patterns with the Spring Framework by Dhrubojyoti Kayal.
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ASP.Net MVC Book Review and musings
Read postMy thoughts on ASP.Net MVC followed by a review of the Apress book Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework by Steve Sanderson.
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Read HTML with Java – Then 7 Fun Things to do to It
Read postThere are several ways to get the HTML content of a URL from Java. There are even more ways to get the HTML using open source java libraries. (read html in java) (java get html source)
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Getting friendly with Spring, JUnit and EasyMock.
Read postHere are some steps that can get you using Spring, JUnit and EasyMock all together in some Test Driven Development hotness.
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New and Unknown Java Libraries
Posted 2009 Jul 30 with tags java, open sourceRead postI like finding new useful java libraries. I usually find them from posts like this one. Other times I find them because I have a problem needing a solution. Here are some of my favorite unknown java libraries that I have found over the past year.
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Load Multiple Contexts into Spring
Posted 2009 Jul 26 with tags applicationContext, springRead postHow do you load more than one Spring application context? There are a couple of ways to do this.
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Choose many Spring contexts over a single context
Read postThis is a short introduction to splitting up your bean definitions from one single Spring application context, to many application contexts. That is, from one XML file to many XML files. The general idea is to have one single primary application context, usually titled applicationContext.xml, and then many other application contexts with are named what they contain.
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List of Version Control Web Sites
Read postI recently needed to find a web site that offered version control services. I was having server issues and needed to find a reliable place to keep my code. Below is a list of sites that I found and some info about each one.
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PHP Framework Comparison
Read postYes this is yet another PHP Framework comparison. A few months back I was trying to decide which PHP framework to use on a project. I wanted to use a currently popular framework because that way I would get the best support from the devoted contributors and users. Choosing a popular or active project is important when dealing with open source tools.
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PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer with Default Values
Read postMy current project relies heavily on Spring. We use the PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer so that our application contexts can pull values from the properties files and inject them into our beans. This is all very common. This means when the beans are being created and a value like ${someproperty} shows up, the BeanFactory visits the configred properties files to find the value for someproperty and injects that value into the bean.
The problem arises when a bean is configured using such a placeholder but the requested property is not found. This causes our application to fail to start.
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Greatest Barriers to Open-Source Adoption
Posted 2009 Jul 23 with tags open sourceRead postIn May of 2008 CIO.com asked 328 information technology business executives and managers if they use open source applications in their organizations. The good news is that 53% answered that they are already using open source tools. The survey also uncovered why the other 47% are not using open source tools.
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- If You Want to Have Cities You’ve Got to Build Roads
- Outliers – A non technical book every freelancer/developer should read
- Software Review: ForeUI Prototyping Tool
- Strange Loop 2009 – Day 2
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