weekly links 2010-48

It’s been a long time I’m not posting but just changed job and relocated abroad, so no time for the blog.

Writing your first active energy manager application using REST

The fastest ways to open editors in Eclipse using the keyboard

The biggest announcement – and the biggest surprise for many – of JavaOne 2010 was certainly Oracle’s new plans for JavaFX 2.0… or, should we say, Swing 2.0?

Weekly links 2010-32

During these weeks I was too busy for contributing the weekly link. Here it is one for this week 🙂

Maven is good, but needs some love

…But Maven needs a proper and clean environment…

Functional Programming Concepts in JDK 7 | Javalobby

Kent Beck’s Test Driven Development Screencasts

Following the recommendations of Corey Haines, Michael Guterl, James Martin and Michael Hunger I decided to get Kent Beck’s screencasts on Test Driven Development which have been published by the Pragmatic Programmers.

Testing REST Web Services With JPA and Spring

REST Web Services can be particularly difficult to test, with the need for networking, a web container, multiple threads and transaction management creating extra complexity beyond your standard unit test. In this article I demonstrate patterns designed to address this complexity while enabling complete testing of your REST web service stack.

Oracle shuts down open source test servers

No One Nos: Learning to Say No to Bad Ideas

No. One word, a complete sentence. We all learned to say it around our first birthday, so why do we have such a hard time saying it now when it comes to our work?

Kick Ass Kickoff Meetings