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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: November 2006
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Wednesday, November 29, 2006. Dumbster : mock SMTP server. My pet project, a Human Resource tool, sends emails. To supervisors and employees when confirming vacations. However, I am working a lot in different locations (also the reason why I added this pet project to a Subversion repository) so most of the time I am developing without an internet connection or the configured SMTP server to reach. In my search for a SMTP server. That I could run on my localhost. After firs...
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: February 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Thursday, February 22, 2007. Unit Testing : Path coverage. Just crossed my eyes, discussing unit testing strategies and its relation with code coverage. In the article, the authors discuss problems with statement coverage. By using a simple example. Both techniques are well known and metric tools exist but apparently do provide a false sense of security, even when they are at 100%. Posted by Ward @ 17:21. Reduce your memory usage with Hibernates evict. Bus factor of Echo2.
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: June 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Wednesday, June 20, 2007. Selenium and Echo2 : No good! Is a test tool for web applications that runs directly in a browser. At my dayjob, they use it with some succes in combination with JSF, thus it seemed only fair to me to use it for testing the webinterface of my petproject (which is created using Echo2). Trying it is easy, simply download the Selenium IDE as a plugin in firefox and start recording. Posted by Ward @ 11:46. Sunday, June 17, 2007. What I would love to ...
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: January 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Thursday, January 18, 2007. I have a crush on Echo2. It was love at first sight when I saw its demo at the NextApp website. Since then, I have gradually integrated it into my pet project and experienced a major development boost. I replaced all the Spring MVC. Related coding (which is actually nothing more than an upgraded version of Struts 1.0) with Echo2 components and it works great. When developing webapplications, you can choose from about a dozen jsp-centered framew...
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: July 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Saturday, July 21, 2007. Tomcat 6.0 and Java SE 6 : Lightning fast! I have just configured my petproject to use Java SE 6. And Tomcat 6.0. I could not agree more. My server used to take about 40 seconds to start, mainly because of all of the Spring. Posted by Ward @ 15:03. Monday, July 16, 2007. Just found an interesting J2EE View framework that I had never heard off before. It's called WebOnSwing. Posted by Ward @ 22:24. Reduce your memory usage with Hibernates evict.
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: October 2006
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Monday, October 30, 2006. I just saw a great show. It's been around for a while but it was the first time I had a chance to see it. It is called The IT Crowd. And although it is full of stereotypes of Nerds, it is really funny British humour (or is it Australian). A must see for people in the industry! Too bad there are only 6 episodes, more info at Wikipedia. Posted by Ward @ 22:27. Friday, October 27, 2006. Two great Firefox plugins. My favorite Firefox plugins :. Conte...
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: May 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Tuesday, May 15, 2007. This one kept me puzzling for quite a while. I was trying to loop over every saturday of the year to fill in a weekend for my Human Resource Application. I had a tested convenience method that returned the first day of a given year and my first try was to use this method and afterwards set the day of week to saturday. The extracted bugcode looks like this :. Public class BugWhileLookingForTheFirstSaturdayOfYear {. Private static void strange() {.
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: April 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Sunday, April 01, 2007. Flex: Combining Flash and Java. In my previous posts, I always was a strong advocate of Echo2 (which is Ajax-based), but using Flash to create the frontend of a server application compels to me a lot more for a number of reasons :. Its syntax is less verbose than Swing-programming, like I experienced with Echo2. No problems with different browsers (and resolutions). It is fast due to the Flash JIT compiler. Posted by Ward @ 19:06.
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: December 2006
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Monday, December 18, 2006. I stumbled accross the following Programming Community Index, Tiobe. Which tries to chart the most popular programming languages. Although the metrics to determine these ratings are discussable, I like to point out a few things :. The index can be used to make a strategic decision. Of people with programming experience in Java. It may not have the fastest developement cycle or the best performance. But it is the safest choice. Is unexplainable&#...
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging: March 2007
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Java Chatter and Random Nagging. Wednesday, March 07, 2007. Echo 2.1 RC Released! I had almost given up hope, but finally Release Candidate 2.1 of Echo. Has appeared. From the authors :. Using the 2.1 platform is strongly recommended (over the 2.0 platform). Even though 2.1 currently bears a "release candidate" designation, it is a superior product in every measure compared to 2.0. I can't wait to put it into my petproject. Thumbs up to the authors for all the hard work. Posted by Ward @ 22:50.