For quite some time I have been thinking about trying out that ‘Cloud-thing‘ and see what all the fuzz is about. Because at first I was very skeptic, ‘how is this any different then a normal hosting service’ or ‘how does this any different than a grid’. Because depending on the used definition, or cloud [...]

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Sun’s Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun’s Java SE 1.4.2 page:
J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL).
This doesn’t [...]

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Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all [...]

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According to Google Trends SOA is not as “hot” as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very “not”. Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA?
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This was my last day at JAOO. I was tired, but still looking forward to today’s speakers. It was hard to decide what to attend and what not to attend today. I just had to hope that I’ve chosen correctly.
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I skipped the introduction of today’s program in order to write up my impression of yesterday instead. The long introduction is boring anyway. I already knew which sessions I wished to attend.
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JAOO: An international software development conference with more than 80 speakers, 3 days of presentations, 3 days of tutorials and about 1400 guests. And all of it right here in Aarhus, Denmark, right on top of where I live and work. I was lucky enough to attend last year, and I’ll be attending this year [...]

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Allright, so you’ve written some code. Now how do you determine that it’s good code? What’s your approach in evaluating the quality of your code? Do you follow some Software Design Principles? Are you aware of some of the Code Smells? Whenever I write some code, I always ask myself questions about the code I’ve [...]

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A few weeks ago some co-workers of mine were having a discussion about IDEs and concluded that their Eclipse would be the right choice for all most every project. Sure IntelliJ had some nice features and so has JDeveloper, but Eclipse had plugins to do the same. Did Eclipse had the best of the IDE [...]

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You may know, or not know, that there are various kinds of software tests that may help you ensure that your code meets the requirements and behaves as intended, like Unit Testing, Scenario Testing, Integration Testing, etc. And the better your test coverage, the lower the risk and the safer you feel modifying your code [...]

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