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With forecasts of April snow, our 2Paths contingent of two headed off at the crack of dawn one Friday for Bellevue, WA to attend the No Fluff Just Stuff – Pacific Northwest Software Symposium (NFJS). Having only spent 10 minutes at the border (whew!), we arrived early enough in the Seattle area to fit [...]
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One of our recent projects has a .NET backend (with a JavaScript frontend). As we use macs for our dev platform, this means dual booting or using parallels in order to fire up Visual Studio to work on and debug the backend using the embedded ASP.NET server … until now. The other day, out of curiosity, [...]
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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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“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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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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