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Here’s a roundup of tools for the developer which’ll almost certainly have something new to you: 100 Tools to Develop the Next Killer iOS or Android App Preview Text:  Here’s a roundup of tools for the developer which’ll almost certainly have something new to you. Read the comments too. There are more mentioned there. ...

For many Web-based client-server applications, the old HTTP request-response model has its limitations. Information has to be transmitted from the server to the client in between requests, rather than upon request only. A number of "hacks" have been used in the past to circumvent this problem, for example, long polling and Comet. However, the need for a standards-based, bidirectional and...

 My colleague Albert van Veen wrote a blog post about Using ArgumentMatchers with Mockito. The idea is to let a mocked or stubbed service return a different value based on the argument passed into the service. This is inspired me to write the same sample with Spock. Preview Text:  Spock already has built-in mock and stub support, so first...

Here's a video from last August that focuses on Adobe's adoption of Neo4j as their graph solution.   Preview Text:  Here's a video from last August that focuses on Adobe's adoption of Neo4j as their graph solution. Legacy Sponsored:  unsponsored ...

Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist: Preview Text:  Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist. Legacy Sponsored:  ...

It’s insidious. It lurks in damp, dark corners and often goes undetected until it is too late. The symptoms are obvious to those that have encountered it before but a lack of communication often allows it to fester for years right under the nose of upper management. It’s the status quo. Preview Text:  If you take anything away from this...

DDoSaaS Miiiight Be a Little Sketchy Surprise! If you PayPal someone to conduct a DDoS attack, things might get a little shady. Brian Krebs investigates Ragebooter, and finds a one-man operation running out of Memphis, Tennessee, possibly with the authorities’ blessing. Preview Text:  Today: The sketchy world of DDoSaaS, Apple's taxes,...

 A few days ago I was going through a project's Maven dependencies, removing unused junk, checking jar file version numbers adding a little dependency management and generally tidying up (yes, I know that this isn't something we often get time to do, but even Maven dependencies can be a form of technical debt). After recompiling and running the unit tests I ran some end to end tests only to...

In case you missed 60 Minutes on CBS the other night, there’s a new  Preview Text:  As CBS showed, Intel is already selling software to recognize the rough demographic of an individual in order to deliver more a targeted advertisement, and as the report stated, “Big Brother is no longer Big Government. Big Brother is Big...

Preview Text:  “Arquillian Testing Guide” is a book you can buy on packt publishing website here: Arquillian Testing Guide. I just read it and you’ll find in this article what i liked and what i missed in it. ISBN or ASIN:  1782160701 Book...

A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the modification of Lucene’s underlying storage engine. Working with codecs and examining their output yields fascinating insights into how exactly Lucene’s search works in its most fundamental form. Preview Text:  A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the...

Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands: Adding a file named "testFile.xml" to the index. git add testFile.xml Testing to view differences between the index and HEAD git diff --cached produces something like the following: Preview Text:  Files can be added, committed...

Anyone that has used DevKit to write a Mule extension and then wanted to add it to Studio, may have notice that the extension will appear under the Cloud Legacy Sponsored:  unsponsored

I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started talking about premature optimization of code. Preview Text:  I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started...

I attended the SATURN 2013 conference in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, which is an annual practitioner conference about software architecture, organised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. The conference is in its 9th year now, but it's not something that's been on my radar to be honest, partly because it's in the US and partly because I've not heard...

Several posts and articles, this week, starting with this nice Preview Text:  Arthur Charpentier's regular data link roundup explores quantified consensus on anthropogenic global warming, compares SAS and R for business analysts, and much more. Plus: zombies (with R). Legacy Sponsored:  ...

At the annual IOUC (International Oracle User Community) Summit, held January 14–16, 2013, at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, more than 100 top user group leaders from around the world gathered to share best practices, provide feedback, and receive updates from leading Oracle developers. Preview Text:  Oracle Java...

I have worked on ActiveMQ for quite a while, and there’s one annoying exception that I see all the time – java.io.IOException: Too many open files – which we see time to time. Preview Text:  I have worked on ActiveMQ for quite a while, and there’s one annoying exception that I see all the time – java.io.IOException: Too many open files...

My colleague Arthur Arts has written a blog post Tasty Test Tip: Using ArgumentCaptor for generic collections with Mockito. This inspired me to do the same in Spock. Preview Text:  In Spock we can get a hold on the arguments that are passed to method call of a mock and we can write assertions to check the parameters for certain conditions. ...

Chet Haase and Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team share some tips and tricks for getting the most out of Android graphics: Preview Text:  Chet Haase and Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team share some tips and tricks for getting the most out of Android graphics. Legacy Sponsored:  ...