Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Feb 6, 2012, 3:30 am
Do you remember the slogan Java Everywhere – write once, run anywhere – WORA, sometimes WORE or by some, and here I mean .NET developers (like me), called Just-W*ORE. This slogan saying you can write Java code on any machine, compile it and run on any device, was very popular a couple of years a...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jan 26, 2012, 6:35 am
“Holly Crap, how old am I? I just became 30 this year! I have no wife, no money, but still many fans and people who love me, even if there are other good-looking and rich guys around”. Commodore 64 could probably say this if he was a human being. How did a home PC look 30 years ago and how does ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jan 26, 2012, 4:57 am
http://www.sxc.hu As a Manager you have to cope with people. This is your daily bread. The way you communicate with others can be a key to either your success or failure. People tend to block themselves, refuse to cooperate when their Manager talks to them in a wrong way. A good Manager has to unde...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jan 20, 2012, 7:17 am
A while ago I wrote about method caching in Java using Ehcache Annotations for Spring. However, Spring 3.1 release, among many enhancements, brings native support for method caching with so-called cache abstraction. The main usage scenario of cache abstraction is to reduce the number of expensive ex...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Jan 19, 2012, 12:29 pm
The Chinese are rapidly expanding outside China. Recently the Chinese sport brand Li-ning has made its debute to the US market with a brand new web shop. Probably you’ve never heard of them and that’s what they realized as well. Market research showed there was no brand awareness related to Li-N...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Jan 19, 2012, 10:01 am
Just imagine yourself taking part in a lively discussion at some birthday party. Everybody is telling great stories about recent holidays. We ask some polite questions and at least pretend to share the same excitement. What’s wrong with it? Honestly, may not be much as long as everybody likes it. ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jan 19, 2012, 10:01 am
Just imagine yourself taking part in a lively discussion at some birthday party. Everybody is telling great stories about recent holidays. We ask some polite questions and at least pretend to share the same excitement. What’s wrong with it? Honestly, may not be much as long as everybody likes it. ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jan 10, 2012, 3:54 pm
Sometimes you need to create an application with your own role and user management module. In most cases you are creating it in a simple and understandable way. That way the user information with a password is stored in the database in the same table named User. In this post I will show you why this...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jan 5, 2012, 4:42 am
The IT Market is amazing. Even when starting a college, you never know what to expect when you finish it. Which technology will be the most popular? What kind of knowledge will give you the opportunity to find a job quickly and easily? You have to stay up-to-date even if you were believing in someth...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Dec 30, 2011, 9:21 am
This is the time of the year when we are looking back in the past and start thinking about the next year. Although, next Monday will be a normal Monday, it somehow feels as if someone is going to press the reset button this weekend. For us 2012 has been a great blogging year. The amount of unique vi...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Dec 23, 2011, 4:57 pm
In October we released the FaceDecorator App for iOS. This App is using the Fast Face Detection feature which is part of iOS5. The main aim of this App was to test this new feature which enables face detection in real-time. Based on that we are currently developing several other Apps. Even Microsoft...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Dec 22, 2011, 6:36 pm
Two days before Christmas Eve makes you forget about all programming languages, design and architectural patterns or some other programming features. Let’s do something else for a change and take a look at how fast our web browser can draw… snowflakes! Last year on my blog, I wrote a post compa...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Dec 16, 2011, 6:12 am
The UK consumers are more willing to buy online, as a new Ofcom report reveals. This applies to mobile commerce as well. A part of the explanation could be  the fact that UK customers are paying lower prices for their communications services than many consumers across the world. This makes the UK t...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Nov 29, 2011, 5:08 am
This post originally appeared at Goyelloblog. View original post. November 29, 2006 we almost missed our plane to Gdansk. Because of the traffic jams and the very fact that Cologne/Bonn Airport appeared to be a bit further than we’ve thought, we arrived just in time to board the plane. Fortunat...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Nov 4, 2011, 1:44 pm
This week Dairyauctionsonline.com started their first auction. Within 22 minutes they achieved a record turnover of € 1.200.000. Honestly, we are really proud about this result, especially because it’s the first auction on our renewed 21webmerce auction solution. This post originally appeared a...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Nov 3, 2011, 4:32 am
Retailers all around the world are becoming increasingly aware of the e-commerce opportunity. Within Europe the UK is the leading e-commerce market but other countries are quickly following. It might surprise, but especially the Eastern European countries are adopting online commerce at high speed. ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Oct 21, 2011, 9:10 am
Early September the good news started spreading among Microsoft Office fans who are for whatever reason using a Mac. Microsoft announced the release of Lync for Mac. Lync is Microsoft’s new integrated functionality for instant messaging, presence, conferencing and voice. Unfortunately, after insta...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Oct 19, 2011, 9:46 am
The latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index have revealed a solid performance in the online sales market for September, with the Index climbing 15% year-on-year (YOY) and equating to £5.5bn spent online. If the travel sector is excluded, the Index grew at 20% YOY. The strength o...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Oct 18, 2011, 4:30 pm
Facebook’s keynote was announced with pride by the eCommerce Expo 2011 organization. Seeing long queues in front of the keynote theater, from a visitor attraction perspective it was really a strategic move to have Ivan Heneghan at the expo. It seems online retailers are expecting a lot from Facebo...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Oct 15, 2011, 6:24 am
After two intensive days at eCommerce Expo 2011 in London it’s time for a wrap up. One of the biggest eCommerce events in Europe could count on many visitors and most of the relevant market players were exhibiting at the Expo. In two days time you could really learn and network a lot. Now we can c...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Oct 12, 2011, 9:25 am
Apple together with Core Image Framework for iOS5 and Lion 10.7 introduces really cool and easy to use face detection API.  The face detection technology was bought by Apple for over $22 million from Polar Rose, a Swedish company known from its face-tagging pictures service and facial recognition s...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Oct 11, 2011, 11:18 am
Magento is by far the fastest growing ecommerce platform. But we will have to distinguish between the two versions Magento offers, Community and Enterprise. The community version is downloaded millions of times, which doesn’t mean that it resulted in as many real stores of course. I even downloade...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Oct 6, 2011, 2:51 am
Ok, now we know what TDD is all about and how to do TDD. Really? Well, no. In fact we only know how TDD works, but TDD is about writing tests (to be more precise – unit tests). What should our tests look like? Here it comes… What is the Unit? Why do we call
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 30, 2011, 9:02 am
We often need to authenticate users and, depending on their roles, give them access to specific areas. MVC3 gives you such possibility by means of RolesAdapter. But using RolesAdapter isn’t easy and you have to use ‘magic strings’ when using Authorize attribute. Let’s find other solution for...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 22, 2011, 3:00 am
It’s of the highest importance to present information in an understandable way. Users of applications shouldn’t waste their  valuable time figuring out the meaning of information. A great example is displaying date and time values to the user. Let’s assume you would like to show some operatio...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 19, 2011, 9:01 am
It’s almost a week after the BUILD event began in Anaheim. Since that day, I finally had  some time to download and test the newest operating system by Microsoft (what else a developer can do on  weekends?). After Kamil’s introduction of Windows 8 let’s go further through the installation pr...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 16, 2011, 6:28 am
Here it is… the youngest child of one of the largest IT companies in the world. Here comes Windows 8. The third day of BUILD conference in Anheim, California has just ended. What does the new operating system look like? Is it a revolution or just an evolution of Windows 7? Is HTML5 going to
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 13, 2011, 4:43 am
As I wrote before, TDD is a methodology. It requires a set of disciplines, and one of them is ‘red, green, refactor’. It is about writing test first, make it pass and then refactor the code. Sounds crazy? Let’s take a closer look. ‘Red’ – write failing test This means that you have to ha...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 7, 2011, 8:01 am
The consumerization of IT forces IT providers to think differently. Business users want to have access to similar features and devices both at the office and at home. Increasingly, these are features provided from the cloud, which enables the user to have access to everything, from anywhere, at any ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Sep 1, 2011, 8:10 pm
We just published that the new Windows Phone release, Mango, offers a lot of new impressive features. It will be easier to connect and share with the people who matter most. Two new HTC phones, HTC Radar and HTC Titan, have been designed with these new possibilities in mind. They offer among others ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Aug 31, 2011, 10:58 am
Domino’s Pizza has just launched its official iPad app on the UK App Store. With some swipes pizza lovers can now order their favorite pizza, pay for it and sit down relaxed knowing their pizza will arrive soon. Curious where your pizza is? No worries, you can track it while it’s on its way fr...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Aug 29, 2011, 10:26 am
Test Driven Development (TDD) is not about writing tests. Writing tests is writing tests, period. TDD is more than that, it’s a methodology.  It has started as a part of the agile methodology invented by Ken Beck called eXtreme Programming (we recommend Kent Beck’s book “Extreme Programming E...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Aug 25, 2011, 8:18 am
A basket full of food: Apple, BlackBerry, Mango or maybe Gingerbread or Honeycomb? The fight between mobile operating systems has begun long time ago. Without a doubt, we can say that the main competitors are iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7 and Blackberry. Which one will win the battle and reach the v...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jul 13, 2011, 8:33 pm
For many organizations it is clear that moving your e-mail and documents to the cloud is the right way to go. During the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference several resellers shared their experiences with both Google Apps and Microsoft Online Services and why they decided to choose for Microsoft....
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 20, 2011, 8:08 pm
“A groundswell is rising among your customers” and to understand this you have to listen to the conversations. All right! But that’s not so easy. Imagine someone tells you to listen to all discussions about shoes. Well, I guess that’s impossible – at least it seems when you have a first lo...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 14, 2011, 4:36 pm
App Stores are doing well. Apple is earning decent money by providing it. But for how long? An increasing amount of publishers complains about the costly investment to support an increasing amount of mobile platforms. They prefer to move away from it. And why not? HTML5 has arrived and it proves to ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 14, 2011, 3:22 am
Do you realize by 2015, it’s predicted that mobile purchases will total $119 billion globally! Wow ……. those are digits. Honestly, I didn’t realize it would be such an amount of money. If you could just gain a tiny share of it …. Since some time I’m very interested in mobile commerce ini...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Jun 14, 2011, 3:18 am
Did you realize “we” don’t trust advertisements anymore? Only about 14% of consumers still trust them. The majority relies on their peer’s opinion before they will buy something. A trend defined before as “The Groundswell“. The best way to stimulate peer recommendations is word of mouth....
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 13, 2011, 12:12 pm
About 20 years ago the Internet became available in Poland, however the first significant Internet portals appeared online just four years ago. Since then we have been observing the dynamic development of the Polish Internet market. The popularity of (mobile) Internet and especially social media is ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 8, 2011, 4:15 pm
Recently, we attended Adam Bien’s presentation concerning Java EE 6 technology. Inspired by Adam Bien we decided to describe one of the CDI features: conversational context lifecycle. With an example we will show you the advantages. A short introduction to show the context Conversation context all...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 7, 2011, 8:26 am
Did you face the same as we just did? A white Skype application telling you “Skype has stopped working”? Unfortunately, just a restart won’t solve the issue. And according to Skype you are not alone. You are just among a “small number” who have problems signing in. Everyone can have this S...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 7, 2011, 4:08 am
In life it’s impossible to predict everything, although we try really hard. When developing software we also predict the future usage of the system. Mostly, we think in best case scenarios, we design the happy flow. But nothing might be more important than exception handling. Too often the excepti...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Jun 3, 2011, 12:49 pm
Just a few days after Google and Facebook reported they were interested in partnering, even buying Skype, Microsoft announced it bought the company for $ 8,56 billion in cash. The purchase was taking over 180 million people actively video calling. Unfortunately, just a few days later it went wrong. ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - May 26, 2011, 10:55 am
The whole world increasingly relies on Skype. Unfortunately, recently this causes for many of us big trouble. What’s going on? Is today’s downtime just another coincidence? Fortunately, for today’s issue a fix is now available. The issue seems big Around noon several people contacted us what w...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - May 17, 2011, 3:36 am
InfoShare 2011, the free IT and new media conference in Gdansk, is over. I was there for the first time, mostly because of the technological track, including Adam Bien’s “Java EE 6 And Best Practices With Nothing But Code – Live Hacking” and his workshop “Java EE 6 – Productivity With Jo...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - May 16, 2011, 3:30 pm
Yesterday we have posted a solution how to make your beloved Skype work again, after the recent update. It seems like, the size of the problem is huge! Today we concluded we posted the solution before Skype support found it out. Since posting the solution on our blog, we gained huge traffic on t...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - May 13, 2011, 3:03 am
Recently Skype released new version: 5.3.0.111. You will be requested to update your application during Skype startup. However, you can have serious problems with launching it on Windows 7 machines. When you will try to login, Skype will crash with the most common, Windows message: Skype has stoppe...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on Sharing our software development knowledge - GOYELLO - Apr 28, 2011, 11:37 am
Amazon is known best by the online store amazon.com. By developing and improving the store Amazon developed a whole new technological architecture, services based. Today Amazon E2C offers these services as a commercial service, the Amazon Cloud. These cloud services enable application developers to ...
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Apr 26, 2011, 1:50 pm
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Peter Horsten posted an article on PetersOpinion.com - Apr 19, 2011, 6:27 am
Are you next week present at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam? Great, we could meet there! To make your stay at TNW2011 easier and more fun you can download an iPhone App since yesterday evening. Even if you don’t attend the conference it could be worth downloading. The App enables you to be ...
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