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Desktop Java
Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Command Line
I looked at a simple JavaFX version of the ubiquitous Hello World example from a NetBeans 7.1 beta perspective in…
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Core Java
Project Jigsaw Booted from Java 8?
In his post Project Jigsaw: Late for the train, Mark Reinhold’s proposes ‘to defer Project Jigsaw to the next release,…
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Software Development
The Software Developer’s Pensieve
Fictional stories (especially science fiction) are full of gadgets and other items that I wish were available to me today.…
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Software Development
Software Architects Need Not Apply
I saw an online job posting several years ago that listed a set of desired software development and programming skills…
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Enterprise Java
Moving Beyond Core Hamcrest in JUnit
In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest I introduced use of Hamcrest with JUnit. I then looked…
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Enterprise Java
JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support
In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest, I briefly discussed Hamcrest “core” matchers being “baked in” with…
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Core Java
NetBeans 7.2 Introduces TestNG
One of the advantages of code generation is the ability to see how a specific language feature or framework is…
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Core Java
NetBeans 7.2 beta: Faster and More Helpful
There has been significant excitement about the beta release of NetBeans 7.2. In this post, I look briefly at what…
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Software Development
The Developer/Non-Developer Impedance Mismatch
Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM…
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