Spring is going Webservices! Or a bit more specific, Spring is going SOAP. Arjen Poutsma has sent this message to the world during the last NL-JUG J-Fall conference. On his blog you can find the nitty gritty details.
Personally I think it is a good idea to build a Spring based framework and not be [...]

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Ten year ago my programming tool of choice was VI, the well known unix editor for mentally scattered and dazled software engineers. When making the jump from C/C++ to Java, Vi was still my tool. In combination with make scripts it had everything a programmer want. Yep, it had syntax colouring, auto-completion, yep it had [...]

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During a java meeting about the use of (open source) frameworks there were a number of interesting conclusions. Frameworks are not used for the following reasons:

Lack of knowledge by the team members.
Most projects are fixed date. To minimize risks, projects use the known solutions (based on experiences of the team). There is no time to [...]

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Bruce Tate, speaking at the guru4pro session on the 3th of november at TU Delft released a new book Beyond Java. You can visit the IT observer to read more about this new book.
Do we need to explore Ruby or should we wait until there is something completely new that will make our lives [...]

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This week I’ve spend one full work day gaming. Doesn’t sound special, I mean, there have been times when I was a student I gamed for a full week and even in the days I started working, I spend saterdays and sundays behind my console. So what’s the point. The point is, I did [...]

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I’ve previously used CVS on a few projects. It is the defacto standard for version control, stable and works very well. At this point of time i have to make a decision on using CVS again or moving towards the buzzed Subversion.
It is a though decision for someone who is not fully aware of the [...]

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This week together with three collegues (Simon Peter Haverdings, Martin Jaspers Focks and Robert Berg) I’m folowing a BEA Portal developers course. The course is given by a BEA trainer from the UK at the LogicaCMG office in Rotterdam. The course gives a nice overview of the BEA Portal product including BEA’s own Workshop IDE [...]

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The last year (or maybe even years) I’ve been living in two completely different worlds. The first world is the well known world of java, j2ee, open source, nice discussions about technology and every month a different approach. As one can see, a pretty nice diverged environment that’s inspiring to get creative. The other world is the world of [...]

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We can discuss frameworks probably till we die but somehow some frameworks reach the status of being a ‘defacto’ standard. And somehow this standard keeps changing more frequently than a formule-one driver can drive its laps on the Monaco circuit. That’s life, take it, leave it or be stubborn. And the last approach [...]

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