Recent Weblog Entries
When planning goes right and the customer reaps the rewards..
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Preface
As a software engineer, you (hopefully) strive to design things in a such a way that they first and foremos...
Christopher Lee
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General
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2008-06-29 21:53:03.0
Groovy Fun With ObjectRange
I ran into a situation the other day with Groovy that baffled me at first. Let's create a range from 0.0 to 10.0 and th...
Scott Leberknight
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Groovy
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2008-06-25 15:34:02.0
Just How Does Spring Do Its Classpath Component Scanning Magic?
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One really cool feature in Spring 2.5+ is classpath component scanning. For example, instead of manually defining and wi...
Scott Leberknight
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Java
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2008-06-23 17:56:46.0
Creating Executable JARs using the Maven Assembly Plugin
On a current project I needed to create an executable JAR that does a bunch of processing on collections of files. As wi...
Scott Leberknight
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Java
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2008-06-18 13:59:56.0
Dynamic Trees in JSF - The Easy Way
Another JSF project I've been working on required another dynamic JSF tree. However, this time the component library be...
Michael Bevels
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General
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2008-06-17 08:50:12.0
Well formed parenthesis pairs
A friend came to me recently and posed an interesting problem. Given a number n how many valid balanced open/close pare...
Bryan Weber
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General
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2008-06-16 00:08:59.0
JavaScript Obscured (How to confuse coworkers)
I was reading a blog entry at Web Reflection that outlined some obscure solutions to common JavaScript patterns.
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Jason Harwig
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Javascript
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2008-06-05 20:19:44.0
Chris's Blog Bytes - Best of both worlds: Hot and orderly...
The Problem:
On a project I am currently involved in, the architecture is such that 6 web applications are dependen...
Christopher Lee
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Java
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2008-05-31 15:56:45.0
A Major Silverlight PITA and Two Annoying 3.0 Limitations
Pardon my rant, but the thing I currently hate most about Silverlight (besides copious XML) is the Visibility property. ...
Lee Richardson
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.Net
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2008-05-27 08:52:54.0
RemoteLINQ - How to make your LINQ span the globe
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Joseph Ferner
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.NET
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2008-05-22 14:39:29.0
Verify EasyMock Behavior When Expecting Exceptions
Often when writing unit tests I use EasyMock to mock dependencies of the class under test. And many times I need to te...
Scott Leberknight
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General
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2008-05-13 14:51:08.0
Performance: LINQ to XML vs XmlDocument vs XmlReader
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Joseph Ferner
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.NET
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2008-05-01 11:31:58.0
What Happens To Lucene When You Go Big... Part 1
My current project has some unique
searching requirements.
Requirements
Fuzzy searching is a must
(S...
aaron mccurry
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General
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2008-04-30 13:30:00.0
Column Oriented Databases
What is it?
A column
oriented database (or a column store database) is a database that
stores it's informat...
aaron mccurry
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General
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2008-04-30 12:00:00.0
ProjectEuler problem 1 in C, Groovy, Lisp, Perl, Python, and Ruby
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Updated 2008-05-02: new Python implementation using sum() -- thanks Pete!
My blog post about the first problem in ...
Seth Schroeder
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Python
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2008-04-29 08:37:50.0
Groovier Processing
Introduction
Processing is a basically a proprietary Java-like language compiled into Java bytecode and used for ge...
Chris Rohr
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Java
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2008-04-26 00:00:00.0
Passing Params to a New Window with JSF
Here's what I wanted to accomplish:
A user performs a search. The user sees a list of results. The user clicks o...
Michael Bevels
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General
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2008-04-23 14:35:33.0
Addition to scala pattern matching
I recently posted a blog post about scala pattern matching . It is intended to be an introduction to pattern matching ...
Bryan Weber
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Scala
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2008-04-22 17:51:25.0
Dynamic Trees in JSF
A JSF project that I've been working on required a dynamic tree. Not just a tree that loads dynamically, but a tree tha...
Michael Bevels
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General
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2008-04-22 14:15:23.0
Nice, Python.
Edit 2008-04-29: more and better results available here .
I've been waffling about glancing at Python. It comes off a...
Seth Schroeder
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Python
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2008-04-21 23:26:37.0