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Mitch Pronschinske02/21/11
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"Nerd Herder" Cal Evans Teaches Devs Career Strengthening Skills

Cal Evans is a DZone MVB and a self-proclaimed "Nerd Herder."  He has 10 years experience in building dynamic, data-driven, interactive web sites based on the LAMP stack, but these days he's interested in teaching developers about the things you...

Mitch Pronschinske02/09/11
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Search UX: with Stefan Olafsson

In this podcast, Stefan Olafsson explains why user experience is a crucial part of search applications.    URL:  http://java.dzone.com/podcasts/search-and-ux-audio-interview?mz=33057-solr_lucene ...

Mitch Pronschinske02/06/11
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Daily Dose - Java Contracts: By Google

Contracted code in Java can reveal failures much closer to their fault, shaving hours off your debugging sessions.  It's good news then that Google has just made it easier to implement contracts in Java with the launch of their new open source tool:...

Mitch Pronschinske02/04/11
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Daily Dose - New OpenJDK Bylaws Revealed

Mark Reinhold just posted the new community bylaws draft for the Open JDK.  Mark Wielaard, a Red Hat engineer, posted his feedback in the comments and Simon Phipps has commentary on his blog (On a scale of -10 to +10, he gave the current draft a -3).  You...

Mitch Pronschinske02/02/11
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Build Your First Silverlight Application for Windows Phone 7

Whether you’re a Silverlight expert or new to Silverlight, this walkthrough will help you build your first Windows Phone 7 app. URL:  ...

Mitch Pronschinske01/31/11
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Daily Dose - Seam 3 Goes Beta

JBoss' grand, all-encompassing Java development framework is nearly finished.  This weekend, the 3.0 version reached Beta 1 status.  It is the first release to have all of the Seam modules (Drools, Errai, Servlet, JBoss ESB, etc.) bundled into a single...

Mitch Pronschinske01/28/11
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Daily Dose - Oracle Threatened Hudson Creator With the Lawyer Stick

As the Hudson community chooses sides today with a vote for or against renaming the project and moving development away from Oracle, the creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi made "One last plea" in the Oracle divorce drama:

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/11
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Apache Solr: Get Started, Get Excited!

In this article you'll be introduced to Apache Solr and a wealth of applications have been built with it. URL:  http://java.dzone.com/articles/apache-solr-get-started-get

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/11
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Jack Into The WebMatrix

DZone recently got the inside scoop on a new lightweight development tool called WebMatrix.  See how deep this rabbit hole goes. URL:  http://css.dzone.com/news/jack-webmatrix

Mitch Pronschinske01/25/11
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Daily Dose - Rymer's "Future of Java"

John Rymer of Forrester Research blogged today about his research and predictions for the future of Java SE and the Java ecosystem.  "Java's future in the enterprise is alive and well but limited," he said.  "Oracle's plans so far fail to...

Mitch Pronschinske01/24/11
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Daily Dose - Spring Data Graph - Bringing NoSQL, MapReduce, and Cloud Data to Spring Apps

A new project from Spring has been announced recently with its first milestone release.  Spring Data Graph 1.0 will focus on making it simpler for developers to build Spring-based apps that hook into things like MapReduce, NoSQL data stores, and cloud data...

Mitch Pronschinske01/21/11
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Daily Dose - On April 4th, Co-Founder Larry Page Will Become CEO of Google

A shocker hit the wires today as Eric Schmidt announced on the Google blog that he would be stepping down as the search giant's CEO.  And who will take the helm of the world's most powerful web technology company?  None other than Larry Page, a co-founder...

Mitch Pronschinske01/18/11
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Daily Dose - Will NetBeans Have to Remove JUnit?

NetBeans Platform Architect Jaroslav Tulach recently posted some surprising news on the JUnit Yahoo Group.  "We have new lawyers," he said, and they're concerned about the JUnit license—the Common Public License, which is a bit dated in Tulach's...

Mitch Pronschinske01/17/11
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Daily Dose - Tomcat 7 Servlet Container Declared Stable

Apache Tomcat has full support for Java EE 6 specs this week, including Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, and JSP EL.  The developers just announced that the new release of Tomcat 7.0.6 is the first stable release in the 7.x branch.  The other new features in this...

Mitch Pronschinske01/14/11
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Daily Dose - JPA 2.1 and JAX-RS 2.0: Voting Now Open

Two major components of Java EE 7 are up for a vote this month: JSR 338: Java Persistence API 2.1 and JSR 339: JAX-RS (RESTful Web Services on Java) 2.0.  JPA 2.1 will support multitenancy, more event listeners and callback methods, and custom types and...