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Persistence
Any developers working on projects involving databases will need to be aware of persistence strategies, and take these into consideration at design time. Persistence strategies are tailored to specific projects depending on a variety of circumstances such as if they are read-only or read/write, how important the timeliness of data is within the application, and [...]
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Agile CMMI
“Are we a CMMI certified company?”
I was speaking with a business associate the other day. We were learning a bit about each other’s companies and he asked me this question. I answered as well as I could, trying to balance the art of diplomacy with frankness. I confessed that we were not, and that while [...]
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Solstice fireplace
It happened again, I got tangled in the eddy of the winding years
Just a moment ago, I stood in a thicket of pale green buds, yearning up toward the waxing light
There was no horizon there, just branches hung with sparkling drips, the first spring warmth, a gentle gurgle from the melted snow
I was down on [...]
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Highly cohesive, loosely coupled
With great vigor and a sense of wonder we headed into the great wide open that is Whistler Mountain. It’s not often that one can enjoy a day (or weekend even) on the slopes thanks to one’s workplace yet that is indeed what we were able to do as our work Christmas do.
Most of us [...]
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The many “eyes” in “team”
In every team, there is a dynamic energy that brings it together. We recognize that the individuals in our team are not only critical to our success, but are also motivated by it: the key is simply to enable each of us to most effectively play our part.
As a small shop, we must all play [...]
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Webapp Configuration - the Spring Way
Most Java applications will need some context specific configuration when deploying to a certain environment. This configuration could be username, password and JDBC URL for a specific database configuration or the details of an SMTP server for java mail deployments amongst others.
There are many ways to to provide runtime configurations for Java applications. For web [...]
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gMail IMAP
Finally google have implemented IMAP for GMail. I set it up and it works quite nicely. Your ‘labels’, if you have any, are top level folders in IMAP and the google list of categories (All Mail, Drafts, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred, Trash) are all listed as folders within the [GMail] folder. Nice.
There are however a [...]
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Tricking Continuum : Self-Dependencies and the Antrun Plugin
A project I’m working on was recently added to continuum to track build success. Unfortunately, we had to include the maven antrun plugin to handle two self-dependencies that the project has. I say unfortunate, because it made life hell to get the project to build when we changed version numbers. But, I have a solution.
The [...]
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Eclipse update, fix for home and end keys
2Paths Eclipse Distro v2
I’ve put together a new disto of the latest Eclipse wtp with some added plugin goodness. I’ve found this version to be much more stable than v1, and it even works on Lorill’s machine without too much trouble. Among the new features is a regex tester plugin, and a filter plugin that [...]
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Seriously, No BullFluff
Last week’s No Fluff Just Stuff symposium was undoubtedly the best Java event I’ve attended thus far, and the icing on the cake was Brian Sletten’s talk on “Beyond Cute-sy Mashups”. It was worth showing up for that alone. It’s not very often that it happens, but I’m stoked.
Below is my newly updated ‘Bleeding Edge [...]
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