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Scalaz monads in Spring
I won’t give you the category-theory based explanation of monads. Instead, I’m going to show you the application of monads, but not on Ints and Strings, but on ordinary domain instances; instances that we persist using Hibernate. Finally, we’ll run … Continue reading Read more on this story »
This week in #Scala (03/02/2012)
Welcome to another week in #Scala. We’ve been busy working on our open source projects here at Cake and have finally got spec2 spring published to Maven central and Sonatype. This week has been fairly quiet from a Scala point … Continue reading Read more on this story »
Why we come to work at Cake
One of the most noticeable attributes of everyone at Cake is the burning desire to acquire, assimilate and utilise as much knowledge about what we do for a living as we can ? it?s an addiction in good sense. This … Continue reading Read more on this story »
Specs2 Spring 0.4
We’re pleased to release version 0.4 of Specs2 Spring! 0.4 follows the very short-lived Maven Central practice-release 0.3. We now include support for Spring 2.5, 3.0 and 3.1; for the latest verion of Spring, we include bean profiles and environment … Continue reading Read more on this story »
DeCare Systems Ireland Blog
Cardinality and Indexes Explained
What is cardinality with respect to an indexed column? Well cardinality is just a measure of how unique the information is in a column. For most index types, unique values are good and repeated values are bad. For example, with a telephone directory, the more unique a name is the faster you can identify [...] Read more on this story »
If Android is the UNIX of Mobile Than Would Apple??
Most of us was expecting Android to become popular and to outsell iOS (this is currently true for the phones. I’m not sure about the tablets but give it a year or less) but not this fast. It is generating a lot of buzz and developer buy-in but there’s also some scepticism about its potential [...] Read more on this story »
Opinions on Tech Ed Europe 2010
Once again wintery Berlin is the scene for yet another adventure deep in the bowels of Microsoft. Yesterday we discovered about the Windows Phone 7, the future of C# and Workflow 4. Today I was treated to more phone stuff and (amongst others) a hard core OS lecture. The future of C# is [...] Read more on this story »
JavaOne 2010 - Day 3
I don’t know you, but I feel great to start a day when the sky is blue and the sun is shining. It was such a morning in San Francisco when JavaOne attendees headed to their first sessions of the day. I had selected two main themes for the 3rd days sessions: Mobile Application Development [...] Read more on this story »
DevIL's Diary
False Positives in Database Integration Tests
The Danger Of Mislead Solutions: Constructor Over-Injection
Spring.NET AOP - Behind The Scenes (3)
Spring. NET AOP - behind the scenes (2)
Gojko Adzic
Delivering effectively in the age of internet: slides and links
Here are the links and the slides from the APIL2012 keynote: Forrester research on water-scrum-fall Article summarising the research Specification by example Effect mapping Feature injection User story mapping Read more on this story »
Splitting user stories: the hamburger method
Problems: Story is too big to split and estimate; business users don’t accept any breakdown proposed by the delivery team; team is inexperienced and thinks about technical splitting only;new project starts and no simple starting stories can be foundSolution: User Story Hamburger I’ve evolved a new technique for splitting user... Read more on this story »
Spec by Example workshop in London ? March 15-16
The best course I?ve attended in my career. I loved that the instructor challenged us to think for ourselves and did not give us the answers straight away - Trond Svensen, SITS Read more on this story »
Feature Injection article is online
InfoQ just published an article on Feature Injection by Chris Matts that I’ve also contributed to. This article is a high level introduction of Feature Injection and related techniques. We explain the key elements of the framework and support them with a realistic example. For more info, see click here. Read more on this story »
Jonas Partner
Spring Integration: Whats going on in there? Part 1 Esper wire tap
Earlier this week Russ Miles announced the release of the OpenCredo Esper extension project (read it here). This project is something we created primarily to make using Esper, the open source Complex Event Processing framework, in conjunction with Spring Integration really easy. At OpenCredo we have been using Esper to help solve the problem [...] Read more on this story »
Quiet but not forgotten
Little time to blog lately but hopefully I will be getting some more time as of mid November. Having started OpenCredo in conjunction with Russ Miles and Gary Levy earlier in the year we have seen fantastic growth in our first six months. Thankfully things are now starting to settle down after the initial crazy [...] Read more on this story »
Working with Maven and SpringSource dm Server
Since I am a big Maven fan one of the things that pained me when starting to work with the dm Server was that the tooling for managing project dependencies was all based around Eclipse. The STS 2.0 RC discussed by Christian Dupuis here now has support for a separate test classpath using a proprietary [...] Read more on this story »
Demo One from my UK Spring User Group talk: The simplicity of Spring Integration
I was asked to make the code available for the demos that were part of my talk for the UK Spring User Group at Skills Matter. The video of which is here. Today I am posting the code for the first demo which demonstrates just how easy it is to get up and running [...] Read more on this story »
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WELCOME TO CIVICON STATE OF CIVICRM: DOMINIK LUKES: 22/08/11
CiViCRM: CiViCRM DEVELOPER TRAINING: JQUERY & CiviCRM: KURUND JALMI: 31/08/2011
CIVICRM - User and admin training - Campaign - 01/09/2011
CiViCRM: CiViCRM DEVELOPER TRAINING: CiViCRM EXTENSION: MICHAL MACH: 31/08/2011
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