When building a Struts2 application recently, I needed to add arbitrary parameters to a URL when creating the menu from dynamic content. The parameters were stored in a map, so I used the my standard bit of code for iterating Read more
objectify-led, a Java library for binding properties at runtime has just been released at Objectify. Instead of having chunks of code such as public class Foo { private static String BLAH = “default-value”; private String myString; private int myInt = Read more
In an annoucement earlier, Jetbrains announced a community version of IntelliJ IDEA. IntelliJ has long been my favourite IDE. In fact, it’s the only IDE I’ve ever liked – having used Eclipse, Netbeans, VisualAge for Java, NetDynamics and I don’t Read more
I took a look at 10/GUI‘s new desktop concept last night and was very impressed. It’s always hard to break backwards compatibiliy, and when the place you’re going to be breaking it is the weakest link in the interaction Read more
Having read my last post regarding version, you have no doubt jumped in your time machine, gone back a few years or months and implemented a sound versioning policy on all the projects you work on; your colleagues think you Read more
Why use version control? Versioning is a crucial key of the development process for several reasons best described through the lack of versioning: Want to see a great piece of code that was refactored out, deleted or otherwise lost six Read more