Reality-Loop

  • August 12, 2009

    Book Review: ActiveMQ in Action

    Manning was so kind to send me a copy of ActiveMQ in Action. Note that this review is based on the July MEAP version of the book. Not all chapters are available in this version yet. Chapter 1: Understanding Message-Oriented Middleware and ...

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  • August 10, 2009

    Essential, accidental and fabricated complexity

    Programming consists of overcoming two things: accidental difficulties, things which are difficult because you happen to be using inadequate programming tools, and things which are actually difficult, which no programming tool or language is going...

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  • August 07, 2009

    Learned Today: Maven Plugin Configuration

    There are different options for configuring maven plugins in a POM-hierarchy. A plugin can be defined and configured in a parent-POM. Then it is executed for the parent itself and for all its children. This is achieved in the build->plugin...

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  • August 06, 2009

    Learned today: Reverse Ajax

    Issue 1.09 of Javamagazin has an interesting article about DWR. Particularly nice is the explanation and overview of Reverse Ajax. There are three techniques how to realize Reverse Ajax: Polling - bases on continuous requests by the client,...

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  • August 05, 2009

    First steps in creating an internal DSL with Groovy

    Sten Anderson has a great post about creating an internal DSL with Groovy: A Text Adventure DSL in Groovy. The "domain" of this example DSL is old-school adventure games like King's Quest. The post shows the different steps how to transform th...

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