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You know the drill.

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In today’s day and age, I’m not aware of any good reason why we (the services) should be transmitting user credentials (namely their [...]

I must say the Eclipse Memory Analyzer looks pretty slick. There is some pretty good material over on the developers blog. Lastly, there was a talk on it at JavaOne 2008 titled ‘Automated Heap Dump Analysis for Developers, Testers, and Support Employees‘ (multimedia recording).

The Eclipse Memory Analyzer is a fast and feature-rich Java heap analyzer [...]

Guido van Rossum, of Python fame, has recently released a Django-based application that enables web-based code reviews… Rietveld.
It supports any language and currently can hook into Subversion repositories. You can see it running on Google AppEngine. Check it out!
Personally, I’m a big fan of Atlassian Crucible and have quickly come to realize the benefits of [...]

Caught this over on JavaPosse Google Groups.
Essentially, some bright fellows over in Japan have developed a bytecode->javascript compiler. There’s a demo floating around that took a Tetris (persumably AWT) implementation and has it running as Javascript in the browser.

John Resig has the best overview of it that I’ve seen so far. There’s a PDF as [...]

So it looks like the Facebook Chat service has finally started rolling out to my network (Facebook Chat has been mentioned previously).
Not quite sure how I feel about it yet. I don’t really need yet another IM solution (beyond Twitter, MSN & Jabber/GTalk) so it’s very unlikely that I’m going to be consistently keeping a [...]

As an outsider (and a non-executive one at that) looking in, I can’t help but agree with Mark’s latest comments on CEO Pay. Obviously things are different in companies of 10,000+ employees and market caps north of $1 billion, perhaps that’s why I’ve been far more comfortable in start-up land.

Put another way, every hired CEO [...]

The Secret Life of a DefaultTreeModel
A good article if you’ve ever found yourself debugging rendering issues with tree tables.

If only I had a nickel for every time I’ve seen the above problem…

CompSci.ca/blog

First-year computer science courses at the University of Waterloo will undergo a major revision in fall 2008. CS at UW is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, and all Math students (including not only CS and traditional Math students, but accountants, actuaries, statisticians, and many others) take two courses in CS as part of their [...]

I started playing around with Hibernate Search this weekend by following the getting started guide.
Being a maven user, I attempted to use the JBoss published artifacts (from the JBoss repository) to make live a bit easier.
UPDATE: Emmanuel Bernard has commented and pointed out that the updated artifacts have actually been published.
It looks like the Getting [...]

Coplien and Martin Debate TDD, CDD and Professionalism
Summary
Debate sprang up at JAOO ‘07 around Bob Martin’s assertion that “nowadays it is irresponsible for a developer to ship a line of code he has not executed in a unit test.” In this InfoQ video, he debated with Jim Coplien on this and other topics, including Design [...]