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Introducing new technologies – How to battle resistance
Previously I had posted about the sad drudgery developers often have to deal with in large companies. I’ve decided to follow up that post due to two epic milestones the past week: ...

Best Of The Week – 2011 – W34
Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links that drew JavaCodeGeeks attention: * 5 Ways to Boost MySQL Scalability: ...

What to do with IDE project files
Each IDE generates its specific project/config/build files. Eclipse generates .project and .classpath, and also the .settings directory. IntelliJ IDEA has its .iml files. And it is ...

Are frameworks making developers dumb?
Last week I got to take interviews to hire senior java developers with around 5 years of experience. But after the interview process is over I felt like the frameworks makes developers ...

Web Services in Ruby, Python and Java
Today I’ve had to prepare some examples to show that web services are interoperable. So I’ve created a simple web service in Java using Metro and launched it on Tomcat. Then tried ...

Java Persistence API: a quick intro…
Hello Readers! After numerous requests from some of my friends I’ve decided to write a short article about the Java Persistence API. Object Oriented programming paradigm is the most ...

Java Naming Conventions
I wanted to write this short post to help certain people who are having a hard time memorizing the Java API classes and Method names. As you know Java is a case sensitive language and ...

Eclipse: How attach Java source
In Eclipse, when you press Ctrl button and click on any Class names, the IDE will take you to the source file for that class. This is the normal behavior for the classes you have ...

Android Game Development – Design In-game Entities – The Strategy Pattern
In this part I will try to explain what I understand on good game design elements. I will use droids in the examples and I will script a basic fight simulator to see how they behave. The ...

Double your money again
Overview A long time ago I wrote an article on using double for money. However, it is still a common fear for many developers when the solution is fairly simple. The problem with using ...




