Importing data into CouchDB – Java, Ruby and Erlang way
Working recently with CouchDB I become interested on how to import existing data into the database quickly. The CouchDB is written in Erlang so the first thing which came to my mind was to use that language for the job, but to find out if it runs ‘quickly’ or not, I had to compare it […]
Read More →$9.99 eBook Deal of the Day
Just to share the info with the community, in other words, for anyone who doesn’t know yet :). InformIT sells selected ebooks for less then 10 bucks in a special offer called ‘$9.99 eBook Deal of the Day.‘. You can subscribe to their feed and watch for some interesting titles
Read More →Java EE 6 Testing with Arquillian Persistence Extension
Today I will describe my newly discovered library which is an extension to the great JBoss Arquillian project. The mission of the Arquillian project is to provide a simple test harness that abstracts away all container lifecycle and deployment from the test logic so developers can easily produce a broad range of integration tests for […]
Read More →Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect
Today I have received very long awaited email from Oracle: Congratulations! You have passed the Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect certification. You are among the elite 1% of certified Java professionals who have gone on to achieve the Java Enterprise Architect certification. I was waiting for the result for almost 4 months […]
Read More →Why you should join Stackoverflow
Back in May 2008 when I first heard about stackoverflow idea I was really skeptical about it. You can read my rants about the whole idea here. Since then, I have used stackoverflow more and more and I have to say that for the last couple of months I actually love it.This was a long […]
Read More →Getting started with Drools Flow
Today I will present my latest discovery called JBoss Drools and Drools Flow in particular. I am completely new to the drools framework and because I couldn’t find myself a quick and simple intro to the framework I will post it myself. Presented example is completely useless from the business perspective and it doesn’t describe […]
Read More →Design Patterns Series – Part One: Strategy Pattern
The Strategy Pattern is a first pattern described in a series of post I’m planning to make regarding this topic. The Strategy pattern allows us to select a specific algorithm at runtime and its one of the simples design patterns to grasp. The scenario described on the diagram below shows a simple usage of the […]
Read More →Jasper Reports Book
One of the latest books on my bookshelve is ‘Jasper Reports 3.6 Development Cookbook‘ by Bilal Siddiqui. If you have ever wrote/maintained an application which has to gather some data into a report form using java technology this can be a book for you. The book is divided into 50 sections, each being a separate […]
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Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development
Well, I have just read another comment left on my blog and I had realized, well, I had realized that I have a blog :). Completly forgot about its existence, and since last post I was writing as a student at University of Greenwich, London, now I’m writing as an owner of a really small […]
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