Author Archives: Kon

Java EE, Spring, and why I care

Finally a post that seems to be sticking up for the Spring framework. (nice change) Java EE, Spring, and why I care « techscouting through the news. Sure EJB 3.1 does make things easier, but it has taken a lot … Continue reading

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Serialization under the magnifying glass

The Java serialization algorithm revealed | JavaWorld’s Daily Brew. A good post about what happens when Java takes your class and serializes it, including its fields, parents and collaborators and the class definitions of the object and the parents and collaborators involved.

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The Seven Wastes of Software Development | Agile Zone

The Seven Wastes of Software Development – Introduction Waste #1 – Partially Done Work Waste #2 – Extra Features Waste #3 – Relearning Waste #4 – Handoffs Waste #5 – Delays Waste #6 – Task Switching Waste #7 – Defects … Continue reading

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Deploying grails 1.3.x war to glassfish

This was a recent bug bear which may be a regression from 1.2.x line When you deploy to Glassfish you get an error message An error has occurred There is no installed container capable of handling this application com.sun.enterprise.deploy.shared.FileArchive@1e46947 The … Continue reading

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Junit Kungfu

A great presentation with audio that talks about Junit 4, test naming and other things.  I liked this presentation because it starts expression Behaviour Driven Development concepts without actually using a Behaviour Driven Development Framework.  Additionally its one of the … Continue reading

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HTML 5 Intro

Of all the recent HTML 5 noise of late, and some pretty flashy webapps to be demoed from them, I got a little concerned that the HTML we know and love was going to turn into some RIA scripting beast.  … Continue reading

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Testing Presentations

Their has been a presentation I watched last year that absolutely changed my opinion on how I tested and how I designed.  It was one of those presentations that just made sense and I cant believe I haven’t blogged about … Continue reading

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Procrastinators Workflow

or workflow to help procrastinators.

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Seven Groovy usage patterns for Java developers

A colleague at my work recently added a Groovy console into one of our applications and it was this that reminded me of the ‘keyhole surgery’ pattern that I watched in a presentation last year by Groovy In Action author … Continue reading

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How to Start Getting Professional about Software Development

A great blog that simply states management philosophy and the flak that you may experience trying to apply, sometimes simple, dev practices.  It relates to keeping yourself grounded, and patient, and trying out new practices where you can.  The final point in … Continue reading

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