Author: Jakub
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New Dublin JUG site coming soon
Coinciding with our work on the IJTC conference, scheduled for early November, the Dublin JUG will soon be moving off Meetup. This is in order to provide a more complete service to our group members, such as blog rolls, wiki, conference content and group planning. New logo, site, content… An exciting and busy time. Watch…
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Visio 2003 UML is The Bomb
I have worked with a number of different employer-provided UML tools in the past and have often been left underwhelmed. Rational Rose is a complex memory-hogging beast, ArgoUML seems clunky (although I’m happy to work with it at home since it’s free), and older versions of Visio have needed Pavel Hruby’s stencil to provide good,…
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Spring Web Services 1.0 Released
The Spring guys have released version 1.0 of their web services framework. The framework contains: simplified methods to create contract-first web services (Java classes from XML schemas) a clean client-side API standardized access to O/X (object to XML) mapping tools like Castor, XMLBeans and JiXB that allow you to marshal and unmarshal XML easily As…
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Another consumer foiled by DRM, or why Audiofy bookchips are rubbish
I recently purchased a Pimsleur Spanish language course on audio bookchip. I figured, hey, rather than buying CDs and then ripping them to my hard disk through iTunes and then putting them on my iPod or phone’s MP3 player, I’d save some time by getting it all on a chip and copying what I need.…
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Does the world really need a beer pouring robot?
I’m so glad that someone has finally come up with a robot that does something constructive. Now if only it didn’t keep chatting away in an annoyingly chirpy Japanese voice while it did it. I can also see a few other problems with the design, but hey, who am I to begrudge genius 😉 Now…
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Announcing the Irish Java Technologies Conference
In early November, the Dublin Java Users Group along with IrishDev will be hosting the first of what I hope will be many major Java events here in Dublin. The one day Irish Java Technologies Conference aims to deliver the same caliber of content as the larger Java conferences, with an Irish slant, right to…
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How to test the middle tier of a Spring application
Since the advent of dependency injection (DI) as a staple of enterprise development using tools such as Spring or Guice, your code has become a lot easier to test. You no longer need to code up voodoo such as plugging in dummy resource locators or the like based on some random environment variable to tell…
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Blog now syntax highlighting code snippets!
I tracked down a Javascript component today that allows you to format code snippets in your blog. Syntaxhighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. Most popular languages supported. Had to do a minor patch to run it off blogger, but it now works like a treat. Check out my last post on EJB.
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Prototype documentation
Anybody working with the prototype Javascript library should check out Sergio Pereira’s Developer Notes for prototype.js. This is the documentation the library should have had.
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Client-side web development evolved
It’s finally time to say goodbye to my trusty Venkman debugger for Firefox. My old friend has served me well for Javascript development, but I have found a new, better tool: Firebug. Javascript, DOM, XHR debugging, profiling, viewing, command line interface, profiling. Mmm…