Guidelines to Create an Installer for Windows Apps
Guidelines to Create an Installer for Windows Apps
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Resources for Building Rails Applications with Aptana RadRails
RadRails is a free open source IDE for the Ruby on Rails framework that can be used as a stand-alone product or as an Eclipse plug-in. Four videos are... more »
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My Favorite Inverview Question
To set some context this question is designed to gauge the abstract and critical thinking of a generally inexperienced developer. I don't usually use... more »
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Database helper for PHPUnit
When testing code which uses the database, you would usually want to make sure the database stays pristine for each test - All tables should be empty,... more »
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Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development
We are very pleased to announce the publication of our white paper Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development. This white paper forms part of... more »
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Flash Tutorials | AS3, AS2 Flash game tutorials roundup part 2
flash game tutorials
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Wicket Interface Speed-Up: Merging Resources for Fewer HTTP Requests
Now that I spent some time on configuring client-side caching and resource versioning for aggressive caching, I am going to finalize this series with... more »
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Popular AJAX & JavaScript programs for development
While programming an application Ajax should be used upto a level where it doesn’t confuse the users by offering too many controls to deal with. Ajax... more »
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Nimbus UIManager UIDefaults
Nimbus is completely configured by properties in the UIManager defaults table. In my last blog I showed a simple example of how to skin a single... more »
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Google Insights for Search: Competitive Intelligence Analysis
In the final post in this series we cover Google Insights from Search and go back to good old keywords and mining search behavior by our customers to... more »
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PHP Bad Practice: Variable Reuse
Anyone who has worked with PHP knows that it is extremely permissive with variables and their types. There's no need to declare variables, not even at... more »
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Making the A.I. Fortify Bottlenecks
Notice that purple has moved his line of towers forward. The A.I. dynamically adjusts its defensive frontier as conditions change in the game, and has... more »
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Java Reflection: Annotations
This is text no. 7 in a series on Java Reflection. This text covers how to access annotations of classes, methods, parameters and fields at runtime... more »
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IE8 & backward compatibility. What can I do?
In this blog entry Samiq writes about some of the new features of the just released IE8 Beta 2 and also explains how to deal with compatibility issues... more »
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Meta-Programming with Scala Part III: Partial function application
In my previous post about Meta-Programming with Scala I suspected that there was no way to express partial function application in Scala’s type... more »
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The Use of Java in Real Time and Mission Critical Application to Support the Warfighter and the IC
Hello, my name is Sam Ceccola, I have been involved with use of Java technologies in the industry and the government communities since 1998. For me... more »
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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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User Stories: Three Steps to Better Presentations
As a Scrum Coach, I often take on the role of Evangelist. Monday afternoon, I explained Scrum to the Swiss Java User Group[1]. Although not my first... more »
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EJB 3.0 and Spring 2.5
Why is it that developers from these two communities don't like to see eye to eye? I have been using both Spring from its inception, and EJB's from... more »
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Running an ANT script in a .bat/.cmd file under Windows
This article explains how to run an ANT script in a .bat or a .cmd file under Windows.
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Getting and Setting Environment variables in C#
Environment variables are strings that save information about the entire environment in your system. These string values are dynamic and they can... more »
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Wrapping (evil)checked exceptions in Java
There are various reasons when we have to wrap java exceptions. Often those reasons are called: Checked Exceptions. According to the definition there... more »
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Scraping, or Programatically Accessing, a Secure Webpage
There are many secure websites out there that provide useful information but do not have a public API to access it's data. A prime example of this is... more »
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Data filtering using PHP's filter functions
Using PHP's filter_* functions, we can validate and sanitize data types, URLs, e-mail addresses, IP addresses, strip bad characters, and more, all... more »
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