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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Great blog for Java Design Patterns

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 15, 2008
I came across this great site via DZone. The site provides a great overview of the Gang of Four patterns as well as J2EE patterns with UML diagrams and sample code for each one. Here what the author, Andre Mare wants to get from the blog. Java Design Concepts will provide information on how to [...]
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New Irish site for Vehicle Registration Tax

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 11, 2008
In July of 2008 the Irish government intend to change the way it determines the amount of tax to pay to register a car in Ireland. The old model was based on the size of the engine while the new model will be based on the Co2 emissions from the car. The same model will [...]
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Ever want to run your web application on Google’s infrastructure?

By Stephen Downey | Published: April 8, 2008
Well now you can…. Google just launched a preview of their app enigne. You can read all about it here. With Google App Engine, developers can write web applications based on the same building blocks that Google uses, like GFS and Bigtable. Google App Engine packages those building blocks and provides access to scalable infrastructure [...]
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