Category Archives: Software Development

Hitting you over the head with the semicolon you left off the end of a C++ class declaration, comes the stumblings of a Developer and his pet sheep. Wooly.

Rick Wagner’s Blog: How to find which .jar a class is in (easily)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Kon

Holy heck, I needed this earlier today Rick Wagner’s Blog: How to find which .jar a class is in (easily). Makes mention of JBoss’ tattletale utility. The comments also mention the Java Class Finder plugin for Eclipse (I used the … Continue reading →

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Glassfish V3.0.1 and Update Tool

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Kon

When installing plugins for glassfish at work I would receive a Premature EOF just after accepting the license terms for the plugin. This would occur regardless of method used, updatetool cli, gui or web. Strangely it worked at home, but … Continue reading →

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Java EE, Spring, and why I care

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Kon

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

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Kon

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

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Kon

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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The interruptible programmer

Posted on October 17, 2010 by neversleepz

A read a good blog post about learning to work interrupted.  Work 2.0 – the interruptible programmer.  The blogger had to learn to switch from a conventional, anti-interruption, get in ‘the mode’ then stay there for as many hours as possible, … Continue reading →

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Google’s guava java: the easy parts

Posted on October 17, 2010 by neversleepz

More Guava goodness dzone.com – Google’s guava java: the easy parts.

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PHP and GlassFish

Posted on October 5, 2010 by neversleepz

The Aquarium: PHP and GlassFish – Links Update. Two free solutions PHP JavaBridge or LRWPInJava.

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Junit Kungfu

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Kon

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

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Kon

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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