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(Finally a tech blog post …) Stop me if you’ve heard this one before! The web application has excellent coverage in unit tests and integration tests that run continuously, but some time ago (weeks actually) some number of tests began failing with strange state errors. In our case, out of 138 test classes and 1176 [...] The world is full of wallpaper managers for every operating system out there. I enjoy wallpapers taken from some of my digital photography, such as this trip to Yosemite last year. On nice modern monitors, you can really enjoy the full resolution of your pictures. Jane and I just replaced our old Viewsonic CRT monitors with [...] Registration lobby at Caesar's Palace Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 What’s the point of a bean validation framework? I’ve been wondering that for a while now. Emmanuel points out that it’s mostly to keep from repeating yourself in code. Validation itself is obvious … keep crap out of the database, apply constraints to data fields, [...] Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 Jeremy is going to help us battle complexity in web applications. (It’s hard to find a web framework that isn’t its own layers of complexity.) He’s the lead for Spring Faces, Spring JavaScript, and a JSF 2.0 expert group member, and he’s a former “rock star.” The Spring Web stack [...] BIRTExchange at TheServerSide (not related to the talk) Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 Rob wrote his talk for EclipseCon which is next week, so we get an early peek. He’s the lead developer from dm Server at SpringSource. I’m a complete noob to OSGi, so I’m not familiar enough to see what’s really important or [...] The tech crew enjoys some breakfast before the morning keynote. Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 Jon’s a fine fellow, but his talked (to me) seemed mostly to be stating the obvious. I’ll just provide his “Rules to Code By:” It’s the Business, Stupid Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 Scott Davis was the perfect presenter for the deadly “after lunch” session period. Interesting that his Groovy introduction is in a breakout room rather than the main ballroom, and there is not an empty seat in the house. Everyone is fascinated by these new powerful JVM languages, including me. Scott [...] Notes from a session at TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 Rod addressed some emerging best practices based around annotation-based application configuration using Spring 2.5 and later. The emerging best practice is to use the @Autowired annotation rather than @Resource. He demonstrated how to disambiguate bean references with @Qualifier. He also showed how to create your own custom [...] Notes from TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 At a keynote talk, you expect sweeping generalizations and “big picture” insights. Rod pointed out some things that I have watched happening over the past two decades, namely the rise and fall of complex monolithic software systems as an expensive luxury that falls in favor of simplicity along with economic [...] Notes from a talk at TheServerSide Java Symposium March 2009 Hans is the project lead for a build system called Gradle. He presents it as a step beyond Ant and Maven. I think he has a point. His system uses Groovy scripts as build scripts instead of XML. The advantages of having a full language available in [...] |
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