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Continuous integration is a lovely thing. Automated testing is also lovely as you can see where things work or not almost instantly in different environments and scenarios. Over the years I have used a few CI servers and tools – most notably, CruiseControl (Java and .NET) and Continuum (from the Maven crew). These systems, whilst useful, [...]
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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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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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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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The day started curiously as I was waiting for the 57, where I came across a quaint wannabe bus driver from Somalia. Naturally, I asked him why he had opted for life over here in Canada. “Here the supermarkets don’t sell bullets side by side with the vegetables”, was his honest reply. I never did [...]
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