How to make your code dirty, how to avoid it?

We can run Groovy code from Java code in several ways.

The dynaTrace AJAX Edition has officially been released last week. Reviews like those from Steve Souders or John Resig helped a lot to spread the word about this FREE tool to Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues. dynaTrace is going to host 2 webinars next week to walk you through the main use case scenarios of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition.

Regular expressions can be scary...really scary. Fortunately, once you memorize what each symbol represents, the fear quickly subsides. If you fit the title of this article, there's much to learn! Let's get started.

Welcome to my tutorial on Creating your own RSS Reader in C#. This tutorial takes into consideration that you have a firm understanding of the XML Namespace and Custom Classes.

One of the most powerful Grails plugins is also one of the easiest to use. The Searchable plugin brings the power of the Compass search engine into Grails in a very Groovy way. If you haven’t tried the Searchable plugin yet, it’s time to stop making excuses and stop wasting time building complex search forms for your projects. Let’s get started.

Virtually every developer will use bitmaps at times in their programming. Or if not in their programming, then in a website, blog, or family photos. Yet many of us don't know the trade-offs between a GIF, JPEG, or PNG file – and there are some major differences there. This is a short post on the basics which will be sufficient for most, and a good start for the rest.

It was at that moment I decided to make a go of it with Linux as my sole operating system. After nearly 2 years of tweaking, making mistakes, fixing those mistakes, and then making even more mistakes, I finally feel qualified to give you advice.

Being indexed by Google is a big success for any website because it gives access to billions of potential visitors. However, with all of the millions of websites jockeying for position in Google’s databases, your website might not get any traffic.

How do you find out if you made enough as a freelancer after the job was completed?

Closures are reusable code blocks in Groovy. The code of the closure is executed against the delegate of the closure. By default the owner of the closure is the same as the delegate, but we can change this. We can define which object is the delegate for a closure, so we can change the object the closure is executed for.

In Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, we have a task list to help TekEvent organizers and volunteers keep track of what's left to be done for their event. It's pretty handy, but it could be a bit easier to use. Specifically, it would be great if we didn't have to click on a task to open the show view and then click again to edit it, just to mark a task as completed. What would be really nifty is if we could mark a task as completed by clicking on a simple checkbox. And it turns out that Grails provides an Ajax tag that's just what we need.

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

Welcome to the tutorial on Taking a Screen Shot with C#. This tutorial is a little on the advanced side and assumes you have a fairly good working knowledge of the System.Drawing Namespace and a working knowledge Win32 API Calls as well, since we use 9 of them.

Having trouble getting things done? Falling behind on deadlines? Here are some tips.

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.

SVN is the version control system I’ve used the most, but lately I’ve been using Git more and more. I’ve also been using Git with projects that have an svn repository thanks to git’s built in svn support. While working with it, I’ve ran into several typical cases that I’ve often needed to deal with, that I haven’t encountered with SVN, so I thought I’d share some tips with you, as I’m really starting to think Git is a much better tool than SVN.

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.

A function that we had to write in Java on a project that I worked on recently needed to indicate whether there was a gap in a series of data points or not.

Cancel Tab Key on a TextBox and instead call a custom function using jQuery

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.

We can use mysql_connect and mysql_select_db functions to create our connections. For closing the connections there is mysql_close function. These are basic functions of managing connections in PHP. There are also a lot of classes made by developers for free.

Let’s investigate some of the most essential tips you can use to improve you Wordpress performance.

I want to share very useful in my opinion code snippets for WPF developers. Most of they were created my friend - Dmitrij Zakharov. Moreover I want to add a short description to each snippets. Note: The Code Snippet Inserter inserts a code snippet at the cursor location, or inserts a surround-with code snippet around the currently selected code.