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Enterprise Java
Spring Profiles and Java Configuration
My last blog introduced Spring 3.1’s profiles and explained both the business case for using them and demonstrated their use…
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Enterprise Java
Guaranteed messaging for topics, the JMS spec, and ActiveMQ
Recently a customer asked me to look closer at ActiveMQ’s implementation of “persistent” messages, how it applies to topics, and…
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Career
Programming Language Job Trends – 2012-08
It is a little late, but it is time for the summer edition of the job trends for traditional programming…
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Software Development
Product Manager – Strategic or Not?
Are product managers really involved in strategic discussions, or are we just order takers? Adrienne Tan has poked the beehive…
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Android Core
Android broadcast receiver: Enable and disable during runtime
Broadcast receiver is the one of the basic and important components of the Android application. There are two different ways…
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Scala
Building ScalaFX 1.0 with Gradle 1.1
After becoming a little disenchanted with the SBT for Scala, I wanted an alternative that was more logical, simpler to…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Scoped Proxy
Consider two Spring beans defined this way: @Component class SingletonScopedBean{ @Autowired private PrototypeScopedBean prototypeScopedBean; public String getState(){ return this.prototypeScopedBean.getState(); }…
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Desktop Java
Integrating JavaFX and Swing
I’ve just finished rewriting a component of my app that was using Swing and now is using JavaFX, I’ve ended…
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Android Core
Android Jelly Bean notification tutorial
You may have heard about Android Jelly Bean (API level 16). Google has improved a lot of features and introduced…
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