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Connecting Flex to Java with BlazeDS
BlazeDS offers a great mechanism to attach your flex application to backend services. In this brief overview we’ll configure flex to call a Java Class and return results.
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Spring 3 – New Java Class based Configuration
So I’m looking at Spring again. Apparently in the new 3.0 version there is a “simpler” way to load your application context. Rather than loading things from an applicationContext.xml, you can now load...
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Adding Maven into Eclipse Projects
I try to keep my examples simple and as close to core Java as possible. Typically I don’t require plugins or extended frameworks as they complicate the discussion. There ARE some core tools I do like...
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The future of Video – GoogleTV AppleTV
This week at CES, Visio showed off an android based smart phone and tablet, that happen to work with the android based Google TV they’re pushing. This is clearly to compete with Apple poised similarly...
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Unit Testing Real Code
Quality code is important, we all know that. In some way or another developers work to ensure their is tested. We code something then try it out. Maybe check the database, or look at the UI what ever...
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My Development Spikes – Now on Google Code
A Spike is a term used in agile methodologies for time boxed periods of research and development. Development spikes are a great way for developers to work out core ideas before implementing them in...
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Spike: Prototyping with HSQLDB
I like doing quick prototypes but often when I come back to the code after awhle I forget about the database. Maybe I’m on anew system that dones’t have the right Database locally or maybe I forgot to...
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Coffee Notes: Art of Development – Refactoring
“Entropy always wins. Eventually, chaos turns your beautifully imagined and well-designed code into a big mess of spaghetti. At least, that’s the way it used to be, before refactoring.” -James Shore...
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Coffe Notes: Eight important books for software developers
Here’s a short list of must have books. Personally I have all the Engineering ones but process / psychology ones are new to me. At any rate this is a good list for any programmer. The list includes:...
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Coffee Notes: Seven Wastes of Software Development
Here’s an interesting article on the Seven Wastes of Software Development In the article, Matt Stine, discusses the concepts of eliminating waste, first as it was presented in the Toyota Production...
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