Monthly Archives: June 2010

Over-reactor

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Kon

This is Ezekial Ox’s new band.  I’ve gotta admit to exercising some caution before jumping into following a new band he fronts given that Mammal and Full Scale both imploded or exploded… but like a partner in a bad relationship, … Continue reading →

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An introduction to jQuery

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Kon

Everybody loves jQuery – well except for me, I wasn’t much of a web person myself until recently – but recent teaching in Grails have shown how jQuery can up the ante on interactive elements in your webapps.  Its been … Continue reading →

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Groovy for Java Devs

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Kon

http://live.eclipse.org/node/888 This presentation talks about Groovy in general and goes thru the general Groovy constructs.  It also talks about the Groovy plugin for STS / Eclipse (though I’ll keep my IntelliJ thanks).  But its a great intro for anyone who … Continue reading →

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CouchDB

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Kon

Much like Neo4J I blogged about recently, there is also CouchDB from Apache.  CouchDB is a document database which isn’t a graph database like Neo4J, but what that exactly means I’m not sure yet – the purpose seem to overlap … Continue reading →

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Hyperic HQU Monitoring

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Kon

As a software dev who worked with an ISP, I learnt monitoring is a big thing.  Customers have availability metrics we need to meet, and more importantly customers are paying for a service.  When it goes down, they shouldnt have … Continue reading →

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Not done at the end of Sprints?

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Kon

This may be handy in the not too distant future http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/06/not-done Thought: If No means no, why doesn’t Done mean done?

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QtJambi – Qt for Java

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Kon

My recent interest in Signals and Slots led me to a few other more detailed docs on the subject Signals and Slots – TrollTech Docs v4.6 QtJambi Docs – the Java spin of Qt Meet QtJambi QtJambi reference docs Qt … Continue reading →

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Go back to REST

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Kon

I like REST.  It seemed to gel with me more than SOAP did.  I think the overall simplicity of it, reduced the barrier to entry.  Whilst I love well defined schemas and protocols, SOAP got some of my most respected … Continue reading →

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Lambdas are not closures

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Kon

A λ (lambda) is an anonymous function. In addition to Closures, Oracle are looking at including lambdas in JDK 7, which would bring more functional goodness to the feature stagnant Java. This InfoQ article sums up the situation nicely.  It … Continue reading →

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Graph Databases

Posted on June 6, 2010 by Kon

A great article on the NoSQL movement, focusing on Graph Databases and the Neo4J implementation appeared on InfoQ. Graph databases store a Node (aka vertex), that has properties (aka attributes), that is then linked to another node.  The relationship (aka … Continue reading →

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