Some pet linguistic peeves are indulged, I find, not for reasons of clarity or grammatical soundness, but out of petty pedantry, habitual curmudgeonliness, or some kind of character disorder. On the other hand, I’ve...

Before you start learning up any new skill or concept, I suggest you take a look at my course “10 Steps to Learn Anything Quickly”.I was reminded yesterday that there are still many people out there who...

Rails 3.0 is finally released, and with it comes a fantastic new way to extend Rails: Railties. Railties are the basis of the core components of Rails 3, and are the result of months of careful refactoring by Carlhuda....

Quan điểm của tôi là trước khi tìm hiều về Parsley thì cần phải hiểu về IoC (Inversion of Control) và DI (Dependency Injection). 2 khái niệm này không xa lạ với những lập trình...

Michael Koziarski (a.k.a. nzkoz) has announced the simultaneous release of Rails 3.0.1 and 2.3.10. Don't get too excited - they're only very minor security releases intended to resolve a nasty bug that surfaced in 2.3.9...

With Marbles2 for iOS I wanted people to be able to click on a url, like http://marbles2.com/app/?seed=2A72367A and if the app is installed on the iOS device, for it to launch Marbles2 and initialise with the...

We have previously worked on changing data series style and creating custom markers for our Ext JS charts.  In this article we will look at a simple configuration that can be used with the Ext JS line charts in...

For a project at school, I needed to refactor some old code which parsed almost 30 command line arguments. I needed to add some more arguments and change some old args, but the old code was not maintainable at all. So I...

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) is the official supported product from Red Hat Inc based on the popular open source JBoss Application Server (AS). It incorporates all the features of the community release as...

I spotted a good comparison of TFS vs. Subversion by Jarosław Dobrzański on DZone (you can also read the original post) but I feel that a couple of the points were either out of date, or bourn out of a lack of...

The beta was released in July and now the generally available version of PyCharm 1.0 is finally here!  From JetBrains, the architects of IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm joins other language-focused IDEs that the company...

Spring Roo 1.1 RC 1 was just released with nearly 300 enhancements since the milestone stage.  The latest release adds the "RooBot" client, which is used for automating add-on deployment.  There is...

Unless you've been living under a rock the past few weeks, you'll no doubt be aware of the moves Oracle have made. As a developer though, do you think it's done much to harm A) the industry you work in, B) your job...

There is no so-called asynchronous execution support in JDBC mainly because most of the time you want to wait for the result of your DML or DDL, or because there is too much complexity involved between the back-end...

Recently as a requirement I had to work on a URL Redirect for loading a particular Action as entry point.  As the usual procedure we choose one of the following methods to proceed with  Pass the chosen url...

I recently reflected on my daily breakfast, and noticed that I didn’t really enjoy it. Swallowing two slices of bread, and one glass of juice, was just my way of getting through the morning without fainting. So I made...

By: Ian WardManaging News now has in-depth documentation complete with screenshots that covers the basics of how to install and use Managing News and more advanced tasks like how to customize and further develop on it....

Motivation is an important factor when learning something new. It is what makes you ambitious and what helps you forget the effort that needs to be invested. If this motivation is missing then you'll have a really hard...