Nice recap of the JDK 7 language changes with examples

Once in a while I’m stumbling on switch statements during a Code Review session. Whenever this is happening my first reaction is to understand why did the developer use it. Since using switch statement sometime implies spaghetti code and also can get very crowded (in case statements of course) in this post I’m going to show an alternative method that I pr...

This post shows how to use session handling in GWT, shows the client and server-side plumbing that is required to get this done nicely...esp. when you are using Spring, GWT-SL, Gilead

Every time I work with one of our .NET customers to help them with managing their application performance I come across the same problems as seen with other clients before: lots of ADO.NET queries, many hidden exceptions in core or 3rd party .NET libraries, slow 3rd party components, inefficient custom code, … This article discusses the top problems, how to avoid them and how to do application performance management across the application lifecycle

Everyone has had an interview that didn't go as well as it should have. Luckily, there are things you can do before, during and after an interview to ensure that your mistakes can be avoided or negated.

In Groovy we can write classes and write an implementation for methods we don't even know exist. We must implement the method methodMissing() which is invoked when other methods cannot be found.

Demonstration of a few of the different ways to dynamically invoke Groovy code within a Java environment.

The task bar has some of the most visible improvements in Windows 7 - find out how to hugely increase the usability of your .NET applications by tapping into the taskbar functionality. Jump lists, thumbnail previews and thumbnail toolbars are all covered.

I implemented a small part of SQL to see how close I could match it within Scala.

Before giving structures, we need to notice a little detail about making database connections in Java. All database connections must be stated in try and catch statements, because there is a possibility of getting an exception. That’s way, we try to make our connection in try statement. If our connection attempt fails, that means there is an exception, and the exceptions must be catched.

Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines. This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.

Create a similar menu with bubble effect by using CSS only. Although it doesn't have as smooth of an effect as jQuery Dock, it's helpful for those that just want to make a cool menu by using pure CSS.

Pretty URLs always helps you to boost up search engine page ranking. In this post I want to explain about URLs rewriting techniques using .htaccess file. Friendly URLs looks neat on the browser address bar.

This text compares Java's two stream oriented XML parsers, SAX and StAX, and explains the difference in a "push" model and "pull" model. It also lists other differences in these two API's. If you have ever wondered which of these two API's to use, this text may help you decide.

Hand drawn typography is hottest trend for graphic designers and typography lovers. You can use photoshop or Illistrator to create it from scracth. In this post I have awesome hand drawn type typography creations. I hope that you enjoy these examples of incredible hand-drawn typography.

In my previous post I talked about the impact of jQuery Selectors on a page that I analyzed. The page took 4.8 seconds in the onLoad event handler. 2 seconds were mainly caused by the selectors as described in the blog. The other 2.8 seconds were caused by a dynamic JavaScript menu – in that particular case it was the superfish jQuery plugin. A closer analysis showed why it takes so long and this also got me to do some research on these menus. Kudos to Joel Birch for his excellent plugin – easy to integrate – and – if properly used – its fast enough

The last topic I want to cover about the Windows 7 taskbar is the Jumplist!!! To create a new JumpList, call CreateJumpList()

Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to learn how to implement our first jQuery plug-in.

I decided to move to KO3 and ditch the 2.3.x tutorial series. 1st part, configuring and creating a simple controller.

Demonstrates the usage of Drag and Drop with the Eclipse framework.

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.