If you are a Java pro and read Java is dead, but you’ll learn to love it you may think: oh no, not one of those Java bashing discussions again. And you are absolutely right. How stupid those “I do not like Java” programmers have to be to claim that Java is dead? Let us bring them back down to earth a bit 
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If you learned computer stuff in the 1980ties you may remember the ideas of the programming language Logo. It allowed to move a turtle through programming statements. Now we have Alice that allows to let, e.g., fly a 3D chicken through a kind of drap’n'drop programming. Best of all, you can take your Alice code to Netbeans and become a real Java programmer.
Thanks to a tweet by Adam Bien I ...
Java used in marketing. Or what kind of useless tool do you have to write to become famous.
I had a look at ProBlogger about his current promotion experiences with the new eBook when I found a post about a promotion for a film project.
The guy invested $50 for a developer writing a pretty useless tool: the simulation of a real typewriter. A text editor without delete, backspace or even cursor movement. What a cool promotion tool ...
MoreA lot of Java projects have quite complex database schemas in the backend. Although, using object-relational mapping it can be useful to have a deeper understanding of such a schema, e.g. when writing CRUD tests.
For me the visualization of table relations is quite important, besides the table attributes. There are a lot of entity relationship modeling tools out there, doing a pretty good job. But, most of them are also quite expensive.
I did a search for something OpenSource and found ...
MoreThe Web becomes social. Web 2.0 delivers the technology to get desktop-like mimic into the Web browser. We’re on the way to better user experience. New services allow more flexible communication and a new kind of relation to other people.
If you have a look at Second Life e.g. you may be disappointed about the limited presentation. But, for me it’s a first step to a “Web 3.0″ that is based on 3D technology, with highly dynamic interaction and full-blown ...
MoreI’m a Typo3 user for years. It’s one of the best PHP-based OpenSource CMS you get today. I prefer it over Java-based solutions because it’s mature, feature-rich, and best of all, it can be used with every provider environment you can find on the planet.
There are huge installations out there already, that scale, can be clustered, and the like. For short: Typo3 is rock-solid enough to be used in mission-critical environments. But, the core team recognized over the last ...
MoreAlthough, I’m a fan of the Spring Framework it’s not in any case the best you can get. Meanwhile, there’s a lot of stuff in it. But, limited resources and parallel developments in the community, to improve certain aspects of the Java/JEE platform, led to parts in Spring that should be skipped or further developed before used.
One of these aspects in Spring is Spring-MVC. From the historical point of view it helps to get rid of cumbersome JSP coding, like ...
MoreFor about three years now there’s a debate about using the Singleton pattern. Some call it evil, anti-pattern, and the like. If you have a look at the Gang of Four (GoF) patterns you’ve to realize that they are still present in the community, even more than 10 years after first publishing of the book. Patterns are commodity and the grandmasters can’t be wrong with their invention, you may think.
It’s not easy to kill a pattern like the ...
MoreDo you really think this is correct? If so, you’re prepared to start next generation software development .
When I started my career as consultant and software architect in the mid nineties everything we missed was widely accepted standards to create something stable in the architecture layers. Layers! Not the components that were part of the layers. Heterogeneity meant to develop interfaces between every two products communicating with each other. Then we got CORBA.
CORBA was the ...
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Rainer Eschen is an agile coach with a focus on Scrum Project Management.
He is a Certified Professional Scrum Master I, a Certified Project
Management Associate (IPMA Level D) and co-founder of openPM.
Since the mid-1990s Rainer worked as a consultant, developer, architect, team leader, systems engineer, project manager, scrum master and scrum coach – since 2000 with a strong focus on JEE. He was also part of “the source” for 3 years working at Sun Microsystems, Germany.
Rainer is author of the book ICEfaces 1.8: Next Generation Enterprise Web Development, Packt Publishing, 2009.
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