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The Context is important…

Uwe Schaefer — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:56:05 +0000

even “Chicken-Soup” can be funny.

Very nice rant about functional languages

Uwe Schaefer — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:14:23 +0000

[About cuncurrency:] My problem with the functional programming cure to this problem is that I haven’t seen a cure yet that’s better than the problem. Maybe it’s me. Maybe my tiny Ben brain just can’t comprehend the magic and majesty of OCaml, but every time I’ve tried to learn a new functional language, it’s ended [...]

On the road again…

Joseph Pachod — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:58:16 +0000

Sorry to say so, but this blog is moving again. The reason is simple, I sometime would like to post in French but this would rather spoil codesmell (which is in English at 99% with a rather strong German audience). As such, I’m now sitting on joseph on IT (sorry for the name, but I’m [...]

jQuery is so much better…

Uwe Schaefer — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:33:43 +0000

… with a proper editor and code-completion. If you´re into eclipse and do occasional javascript and maybe jquery or <put your fav javascript lib here>, you should definitly have a look at Aptana Studio. Note, that – if you really wanted – you can also get it as a standalone editor.

Joel on Mercurial

Uwe Schaefer — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:23:53 +0000

a very nice introduction into mercurial can be found here. It nicely goes from bashing subversion The story is this: at some point, they tried to branch their code, usually so that the shipping version which they gave their customers can be branched off separately from the version that the developers are playing with. And [...]

Impressive Keynote from re:publica

Uwe Schaefer — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:55:24 +0000

can be found here. Inspiring thoughts of Prof. Dr. Miriam Meckel.

nice IE6 bashing

Uwe Schaefer — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:56:15 +0000

Must read : The unspoken truth about managing geeks

Joseph Pachod — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:24:35 +0000

Thanks to Nathan on coderspiel, I stumbled upon this excellent article : Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks. So true ! ++

Certification, part 2 ;)

Joseph Pachod — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:09:37 +0000

hi Small post to tell that I’ve started to look into SCJD, another certification. As such, I fear I will once again post way less (in case anyone cared, which might be quite optimistic, yes I know, thanks ). Anyway, not to do a totally useless entry, let’s share a few links : a nice [...]

Book review : SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide

Joseph Pachod — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:50:08 +0000

In order to get ready for the SCJP 6 exam, I’ve read SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 6 Study Guide, from Katherine Sierra and Bert Bates, aka some of the certification’s exam creators. The authors make clear at the beginning that the book is about, and only about, being ready for the SCJP exam. [...]

Wave Panel for Wicket

Uwe Schaefer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:31:40 +0000

in case someone thought it was a good idea: We’re delighted to introduce a new wicket component which will allow you to easily integrate Google Waves right into your application. Please meet GoogleWavePanel ! The idea of making this component came from a recent tutorial which aimed at clarifying the use of Google’s Wave Embed [...]

Book review : Don’t make me think

Joseph Pachod — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:53:56 +0000

I had already read some books on usability. The last one had about 400 pages and lots of texts. It laid out 10 (or 12) rules regarding usability. I can’t even remember one ! On the other hand, Steve Krug’s Don’t make me think is still deeply in my mind. Not only the author applied [...]

Playing with Wicket’s templates

Joseph Pachod — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:33:20 +0000

Wicket comes with some templating facilities. They’re often handy, especially when integrating JavaScript components. Yet, for some reasons I don’t get, these functionalities aren’t much advertised. Anyway, let’s dig in ! Basically, this templating is about some text containing variables, for example ${variable}, whose values are provided through Java code. Let’s take a simple example, [...]

Primitive Array to Object[]

Uwe Schaefer — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:24:33 +0000

If ever you face the need of ‘boxing’ the elements of a primitive array into an array of Objects, this might be handy: public static Object[] convertPrimitiveArray(final Object array) { final int arrayLength = Array.getLength(array); final Object[] result = (Object[]) Array.newInstance(Object.class, arrayLength); for (int i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) { Array.set(result, i, Array.get(array, [...]

Noteworthy: MS adds Mercurial support to Codeplex

Uwe Schaefer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:56:30 +0000

via http://blogs.msdn.com/codeplex/archive/2010/01/22/codeplex-now-supporting-native-mercurial.aspx

m2eclipse workspace resolution not working ?

Joseph Pachod — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:03:20 +0000

We have this “fix”: Go to your workspace folder in the folder .metadata/.plugins/org.maven.ide.eclipse, remove all file ending with .container in eclipse, clear all projects hope for the best For us, it has resolved a nasty issue we had : some projects’ dependencies weren’t resolved locally even if the projects in question were in the workspace. [...]

Eclipse Builder plugin

Uwe Schaefer — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:34:12 +0000

in case you use Eclipse and like the builder pattern, try this plugin. Update Site: http://boss.bekk.no/bpep/update

Spinner via css while image loading

Uwe Schaefer — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:28:34 +0000

very simple but neat idea by martijn dashorst: <img src="http://example.com/images/someimage.jpg" style="background-image:url('style/spinner.gif');" /> Assuming the local machine is faster than the external server, the spinner should be visible while the external image loads. Martijn

Book review : Test-Driven Development By Example

Joseph Pachod — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:52:05 +0000

hi I’ve recently read Test-Driven Development By Example, a book from Kent Beck. I’ve liked the following: description of the TDD cycle : Red – write a little failing test/Green – make the test pass quickly, even if it involves dirty tricks or duplication/Refactor – make the code clean, including hunting for duplicates for example. [...]

Hibernate statistics page

Joseph Pachod — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:29:01 +0000

Hi ! We were some time ago at a presentation about hibernate (at a Karlsruhe JUG event). The presenter, Michael Plöd showed us a nice Hibernate statistics page. As you can bet, we went for reusing it However, in doing so, some issues appeared, and in the end we thought the updated version could be [...]