Category " Development"

Eugene Ciurana’s talk was on the new hotness, the buzzword du jour Cloud Computing. One of the main goals as a presenter which I learned watching Eugene, is that your role is not just to teach and blather on, but to entertain. Eugene definitely has an air of confidence while he speaks, and it makes [...]

David Geary’s talk on Google Web Toolkit was one of the highlights of the day. Oddly enough they held it in the polar room and kept it at a brisk 30 below! Aside from feeling like we were stuck in the North Pole, the presentation was informative and engaging, and David’s dry humor left us [...]

The next talk I attended was presented by Kito Mann from Virtua and went over the new items that are expected in the next major release. JSF2.0 will be part of Java Enterprise Edition 6, and the official JSR is 314. Kito has a professional grasp of all the new aspects of JavaServer Faces 2.0, [...]

The conference was kicked off with a great keynote speech by Neal Ford. The presentation was “Productive Programmer: On the Lam from the Furniture Police” and was a subject near and dear to many developers who have ever worked in a cube farm, and wanted to squeeze more productivity out of your day. As “knowledge [...]

Here at Mystic, we do a lot of different types of development. It’s not all web development. I found myself writing a simple document parser that takes files uploaded by automated process, processes them by adding to a database, and finishes. One of the components we used to tie everything together, the Spring Framework, it’s great for that.

The writing has definitely been on the wall for some time now. All the “agile” frameworks out there picking on Java and its love affair with XML had an effect. More and more projects have sprung up that tout one of their prized features, no XML required. Wicket (currently undergoing incubation with Apache) is a [...]

With a little help from freenode folks in ##java and #awk .. I’ve got a one liner which will give you a word count for your resource bundle files: ?View Code BASH grep -vE ‘^#’ YourResourceBundle.properties | cut -d = -f 2 | wc -w whew.

Something that just struck me as handy, was Growl notifications for certain steps in the ant build process. If you’re doing something else, its always nice to see “Build completed”. I could go into a long process on how to create an ant plugin, integrate it with Growls’ Java bindings, and have a very tightly [...]

Thanks goes to Xgc in #mysql on freenode for showing me this little one-liner. We needed to add a unique key to one of our tables, and a duplicate was in our midst. Enter this handy one-liner: ?View Code SQL SELECT field1, count(*) FROM tbl1 GROUP BY field1 HAVING count(*) > 1; problem solved, a [...]