Author Archives: Stephen Downey
Great blog for Java Design Patterns
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
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?
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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Should an agency be allowed to update your Resume/CV?
Jakub Korab of the Dublin Java users group raises some good arguments about agencies updating a CV before submitting it to an employer. The logic being that the agency does not want the employer to contact me later on without them involved. While I appreciate the logic behind the practice, and have no problem with [...]
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Need an end to end web solution using the latest Frameworks?
…then check out iWebMVC. I came across this framework during the week via Ajaxian. It provides an end to end solution with all of the plumbing in place for DWR, Dojo, Spring and Hibernate/JPA. This is a great place to start for someone that wants to get up and running fast with inner plumbing in [...]
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Java Code Style and some Handy Plugins for Eclipse
Here are some handy plugins for Eclipse that I came across via an IBM Developerworks article by Paul Duvall. CheckStyle: For coding standardsPMD's CPD: Enables discovering code duplicationCoverlipse: Measures code coverageJDepend: Provides dependency analysisEclipse Metrics plugin: Effectively spots complexity I have used the Checkstyle plugin for a few years now and found it extremely useful. [...]
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AJAX process definition on Client Side
I came across an interesting article by Masayuki Otoshi via Java World that discusses how to execute process definitions on the client side rather than the server side. This can come into play when making AJAX calls. As AJAX is Asynchronous, it is not possible to predict the order that your callback methods will be [...]
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Simple Soap
I came across this great overview of SOAP via Mícheál Ó Foghlú's weblog: Pete Lacey's Weblog :: The S stands for Simple
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Google Release AJAXSLT
Google have just released AJAXSLT. …an implementation of XSL-T in JavaScript, intended for use in fat web pages, which are nowadays referred to as AJAX applications. I'm looking forward to playing around with this. I have being doing a lot of work with XSLT lately so it will be interesting to see how Google have [...]
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Java Programming for the Nintendo Wii