Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Jan 28, 2011, 10:40 am
This comes as no surprise to me as in my opinion the primary strength of Java lies with it’s enterprise abilities. Forrester’s authors say that its report, “The Future of Java,” is not a Java obituary. Java is still dominant in the enterprise but no programming language has retained a centr...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Oct 19, 2010, 12:58 am
My theory goes like this: Good java developers are hard to find because fewer and fewer of them are being created. New developers are not choosing java to “cut their teeth” on. And I suspect that coming from whatever they are coming from, java doesn’t look appealing. via I think I figured out...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Jul 17, 2010, 10:46 am
This looks like a truly useful project management tool for JIRA. Check it out at: http://www.atlassian.com/software/greenhopper/ No related posts.
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Jul 15, 2010, 12:53 pm
Tomorrow is the last day for early-bird registration discounts. JavaOne and Oracle Develop 2010 No related posts.
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Jun 9, 2010, 11:36 pm
I recall the first oddity that struck me about Java programming is that it seems common practice to test returned objects for null. I find it frustrating and inefficient to scatter if conditions throughout my code just to see if I have a valid object instance returned.  Receiving null is confusing...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Apr 30, 2010, 1:14 pm
At work we’re looking into swapping out Struts with a different MVC framework. I’m curious as to which frameworks are most in use today. Please complete the poll below and feel free to post comments/recommendations on the subject. Share the link and spread the word, the more data received the be...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Mar 9, 2010, 11:49 pm
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I just finished reading The Art of Agile Developmentby James Shore and Shane Warden. I picked up the book because I wanted to find out more about agile development. I hear a lot of terms thrown around the office about scrum processes and agile development. However, as I paid more attention to the ac...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
IBM releases EGL Community Edition 1.0 on September 8, 2009. EGL is a high level language designed to simplify Rich Internet Application (RIA) and Web 2.0 development. EGL is an extensible language that generates standard JavaScript and AJAX code and is not a replacement for these technologies ...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The EJB specification does not leave much room for implementing concurrent processing within the EJB container. This poses a problem to developers who need to implement solutions for processing long running batch processes as part of the business logic of an application. The EJB specification states...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I came across some code the other day that simply horrified me. I was looking at a table that had a field name which implied it stored a boolean value (e.g. IS_LAUGHABLE). The field type is defined as a char(1), allows NULL values and defined no default value. Looking at the data in the column I fou...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
The final keyword is one that I find is under utilized. Use final in your projects as a means of defensive programming. If you are unfamiliar with this keyword here is a great article on its usage. Renaud Waldura’s The Final Word On the final Keyword . No related posts.
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here’s a good article comparing the performance of various File I/O implementations.
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
When it came time for me to tackle my first web service implementation I ran into a lot of problems. Here I will write a series of articles to address the questions and problems I encountered in hopes of helping you get started in developing web services faster than I did. The following example wil...
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Frank Salinas posted an article on Frank's Java Development Blog - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
There are a lot of software developers out there and the competition is high in the current job market. The economy is in a state of flux and the unemployment rate continues to rise. It’s important to develop a set of skills that distinguish you from the rest of the pack and I believe maintain...
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