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Core Java
Native Java Packaging with NetBeans 7.4
One of the new features of NetBeans 7.4 that made the “NetBeans 74 NewAndNoteworthy” page is “Native Packaging,” which is…
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Groovy
Grails Goodness: Namespace Support for Controllers
In a Grails application we can organize our controllers into packages, but if we use the same name for multiple…
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Android Core
Android Volley dynamic ListView: AsyncTask comparison
In this post, I will describe first how to use Volley to populate dynamically a ListView, and then compare it…
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Career
Revisiting Certifications
The job market is currently in a lull so I’ve been talking to a few new recruiters and gotten a…
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Enterprise Java
Using JSF 2.2 features to develop ajax, scrollable, lazy-loading data table
This time around, I thought I’ll share with you what I recently learnt of JSF 2.2 features. To do that,…
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Software Development
Six things I learned for software localization
This blog post is a personal compilation of six technology independent things I learned in the past months about software…
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Core Java
3 ways of handling exceptions in JUnit. Which one to choose?
In JUnit there are 3 popular ways of handling exceptions in your test code: try-catch idiom With JUnit rule With…
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Scala
Surfacing Hidden Design: Seeking A Better Alternative To Interrelated Mutable Fields
What is better, a bunch of mutable boolean fields and methods operating on them, or an explicit expression of the…
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Enterprise Java
Save-and-Refresh With Java Web Projects
How do you configure your machine in order to have save-and-refresh for Java web projects? When you ask this question…
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