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A comprehensive listing of must-have books, sites, blogs, events, and more was compiled by Ted Neward. He is a consultant with ThoughtWorks, a worldwide consultancy, and the principal of Neward & Associates, where he consults, mentors, teaches, and pres…
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The new EPF Composer 1.5 is out since some time. The publishing process now got an option to publish sites for processes as .war files. This is quite a big step forward. Before this, you had to publish html pages and copy them to your target webserver. EPF b…
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The public review period of the JEE6 specification ( JSR-316 ) started on january 23. It will be open for comments up to the 23 of february. Java EE 6 is the Enterprise Edition of version 6 of the Java platform, and thus will be built on Java SE 6. The mai…
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My department chief Rainer Singvogel is going to give a speech at the SE 2009 in march. His speech has the title "Effective and efficient: Software development processes based on Eclipse EPF" . He is going to talk about msg's own software deve…
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Smashing Magazine has published a list of 45 jQuery tips and techniques for improving the user experience on your site. This includes things like login screens, navigable menus, text size slider, and many more. If you are using jQuery or thinking about it, …
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Aide-mémoire: Psychology of why reuse fails - courtesy of GeekAndPoke This interesting post of Kate Carruthers outlines a more or less big problem in modern software companies. After all it's not only a matter of "can do" but a matter of "w…
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Perf4J was announced yesterday. It is a new open-source performance logging, monitoring and analysis library for enterprise Java applications. For developers who are familiar with common Java logging frameworks like log4j, the team likes to describe Perf4J w…
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Back in 2008 I wrote an article about connecting PHP and Java/JEE. This was published yesterday for free on the new heise channel " developer ". Go and read it . Unfortunatualy this was written in german. In Detail I am talking about: PHP Java Exte…
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Found an article about performance comparison for the most well known Java Persistence API (JPA) implementations: Toplink Essentials, EclipseLink, Hibernate and OpenJPA. Summarized conclusions: (taken from the articel) There is not an implementation that clea…
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I got the change to take a deeper look at the new GlassFish v3 Prelude. Nazrul Islam published a personal top 10 of the biggest features in v3. One among others is the "Support for dynamic languages such as Ruby and Groovy". Have a look at the off…
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A new book about the Apache Geronimo Server is available. In december the german dpunkt verlag published it. Apache Geronimo, m. CD-ROM. Server-Handbuch für Java-EE-Entwickler und -Administratoren It is written by Frank Pientka and covers nearly completely al…
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artists can color the sky red , originally uploaded by myfear . Did this recently. It's a true artwork. A combination of two images. One taken with my famous N73 (which I still love, even if I now have to use this cam-sick blackberry) and one ta…
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On January 12, 2009 the SANS Institute released a combined list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors . Experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list. The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Danger…
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Yesterday I found this post from Tim O'Reilly . He is talking about "work on stuff that matters". To me the most important part in his posting is the break where he points out how to find "stuff that matters" for your self. Some of yo…
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According to Ingo Rockel the TDA in version 2.1 is just a bugfixing release. Especially concerning the VisualVM Plugin. Read more on his blog Download TDA here
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I just found this today on someones bookmarks. Kevin Hoyt writes about sales engineers and technology evangelists. Quite interesting, that he points out, that "[technology evangelists] have some degree of ego [...]" to stay on stage and fulfil the p…
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There were some questions recently reguarding the Weblogic Apache plugin. I just want to show you in this quick example, how to configure and test the plugin in some easy steps: 1) Download the Apache plugins for WLS from the Oracle OTN website 2) Identify th…
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Now it is official :) The burton group analyst Anne Thomas Manes anounces on her blog, what everybody already knew ;) SOA is Dead! My favorite quote: It’s time to accept reality. SOA fatigue has turned into SOA disillusionment. SOA met its demise on January 1…
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Friday morning. In fact it is a bit too early for waking up during my holidays but that is quite normal for me. Befor I jump into the topic of this post I wish you all a wonderfull start into the new year and hope, you had a wonderfull christmas time with you…
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