Tag Archives: Java

Intro to Spring MVC Talk at SD Forum

I’ll be speaking next Tuesday evening for SD Forum in Palo Atlo about Spring MVC. It’s mostly an introductory talk, but I’ll weave in some opinions and lessons learned from real projects. I’ll cover many of the MVC features, including … Continue reading

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Screw.Unit JS Testing in Maven: javascript-test-maven-plugin

I’ve written a maven plugin to integrate Screw.Unit javascript tests into a maven build. The project is inspired by the Blue Ridge testing framework for Rails, but it’s a bit more light-weight by design.

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Database Migrations: Fail when database is out of date

The latest release of the Carbon Five Database Migration maven plugin supports a new goal: check. The check goal fails the build if the database isn’t up to date. That is, if there are pending migrations the plugin produces a … Continue reading

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Secure Email with Spring’s JavaMailServer and Gmail

Both Carbon Five and my ISP have moved email management over to Gmail.  While this has been a net improvement for me as an end user, it’s made it a bit more difficult to configure my applications to send outgoing … Continue reading

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C5 Test Support new addition: FunctionalTestRunner

We’re always looking for new ways to test our applications and we’ve been trying a few new things on our projects. One of the recent additions is a JUnit test runner designed to help make writing and running functional tests … Continue reading

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Web Application Testing @ SDForum October 6th

Updated: Added links to presentation and source code. I’ll be down in Palo Alto speaking about Automated Web Application Testing Tuesday October 6th. If you’re interest in getting a peek at the typical Carbon Five Java web architecture along with … Continue reading

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SmartyCard Launches!

Our client SmartyCard launched in early March at the DEMO conference picking up the People’s Choice Award.  SmartyCard is a learning site that offers kids rewards for completing a variety of interactive learning games.  Kids are able to ‘learn, earn … Continue reading

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Stripes: A Successful First Project

We’re wrapping up a project that I’ve been leading since September and I’ve been reflecting on some of my decisions. Some of this reflection might be interesting to other developers. There are a few things on my mind, but I’ll … Continue reading

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More fun with Java Concurrency: BlockingQueue

I’ve written about Java 5 concurrency in the past and I’ve recently had the opportunity to make use of another one of the concurrency constructs: the BlockingQueue. The Problem There’s a problem we’ve seen a few times in the last … Continue reading

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Make the things you do often fast and easy

Many of our projects are ‘greenfield’ and we have the opportunity to do things the way we like. By working on new projects every few months, as opposed to one project over the course of years, we have lots of … Continue reading

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