JavaFx interview at InfoWorld
Didn't see that one coming too, but yes Paul Krill, editor at large at InfoWorld, interviewed me a couple of weeks ago, precisely after publishing a... more »
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Neal Ford On Programming Languages and Platforms
"Neal Ford talks about the tendency of having multiple languages running on one of the two major platforms existing today: Java and .NET. He also... more »
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Flash exploit served by Microsoft
Microsoft site (msn.no) serves trojan to thousands of users due to known Flash Player bug.
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Everything there is to know about Flex 4 / Gumbo
About a month ago, the Flex team announced that nightly builds of the next version of Flex (code named Gumbo) were now available on the opensource... more »
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Using a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties
Using a simple Hibernate Interceptor, updating audit trail fields in a database (such as created_by, created_on, updated_by, and updated_on) can be... more »
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ASP.NET Myths Busted
Having read a great variety of forum and blog posts, I met a lot of misconceptions about ASP.NET that definitely made people to turn away from... more »
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MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
This is the fourth post in an article series about MIT’s lecture course “Introduction to Algorithms.” In this post I will review lecture six, which is... more »
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Creating Vista Style Login Screen With Silverlight 2 Beta 2
I was trying to create Vista style Login screen using Silverlight. I've seen couple of excellent custom Vista style UI designed in WPF by the known... more »
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White paper on IronRuby published
Manning published my white paper — or green paper as they call it — on IronRuby. You can find it here...
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Curved ScrollBars using WPF 3D
My blog entry Non-Affine Transforms in 2D? posted a year ago is about using WPF 3D to mimic two-dimensional non-affine transforms, which are not... more »
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Virtual SCRUM Board
Virtual SCRUM Board (VSB) is a software tool that helps Scrum teams manage the uncommitted backlog, sprints, stories and tasks. VSB empowers Scrum... more »
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Interview: Ruby On Rails Creator On The State of eCommerce
David Heinemeier Hansson created the Ruby on Rails software framework. He’s also a partner in 37signals, producers of the popular Basecamp suite of... more »
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Why we bill by the Hour
Hourly vs. Fixed Bid, why we bid hourly and always will.
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QuickSort for Fun!
This is a QuickSort for fun in C# 3 for a list with repeated items.
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Zero to Production in 15 Minutes
There still seems to be confusion about the relative simplicity or difficulty of deploying a Rails app using JRuby. Many folks still look around for... more »
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Mootools basics + 5 useful tips
In this post, you will find a little reminder of Mootools base functions (Basic Learning) + 5 very cool tips and examples to do more things with less... more »
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Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 Released: More Controls, Streamlined Setup, Improved Start-up
The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics... more »
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300+ PHP Presentations Online
The PHP Presentation System hosts over three hundred presentations, covering a slew of different topics including performance, testing, debugging,... more »
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5 Software Build Patterns
Do you want to help develop build patterns and identify? We have patterns-a-plenty for writing code. How about patterns for building it?
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Distributing Air Applications in a clean, easy way
Tutorial on how to distribute AIR Applications to people that never heard of it. How to avoid to force user to install two things (AIR Runtime and the... more »
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Root Cause of Singletons
Since I have gotten lots of love/hate mail on the Singletons are Pathological Liars and Where Have All the Singletons Gone I feel obliged to to do... more »
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Why XAML is Powerful
XAML, Microsoft's eXtensible Application Markup Language, was released with the .NET 3.0 framework and works with the new technologies available in... more »
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A critical review of the upcomming JSF 2.0 spec
JSF, especially 1.1, got criticized by some Java developers. For JSF 2.0 this critique was taken seriously and a much improved spec is currently being... more »
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You've caught an exception. Now what?
An effective strategy for handling exceptions is to catch them at the boundary of a coarsely-grained "unit of work". Once you've caught an exception,... more »
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Chain.js - Great JavaScript Template Engine
Find out how to use Chain.js (a JQuery plugin) as client-side Javascript template engine -- the best one I've ever seen.
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