Overview of EclipseLink's high-performance JPA features for Spring, including caching, query hints, and database state history.
A summary of a talk by Spring JDBC lead Thomas Risberg on performance tuning for data access in Spring applications, covering JDBC, transactions, and ORM configuration.
Summary of Jürgen Höller's SpringOne 2008 talk on Spring 2.5 features and a preview of the upcoming Spring 3.0 release.
A critique of common pitfalls that hinder success in Silicon Valley's tech startup scene, focusing on mindset and behavior.
Explains how symlinks affect directory navigation in Unix shells vs. programming languages like Python, highlighting the 'cd -P' option.
Explores how content commoditization increases the value of personal branding and trusted sources in the tech information landscape.
A software engineer shares his top 5 essential books for software professionals, focusing on design, refactoring, and testing.
Reflections on re-reading Eric Evans' "Domain Driven Design," emphasizing the importance of code as communication and semantic clarity.
Discusses the pitfalls of short-term, quarterly-focused business strategies in tech companies and the advantages of long-term planning.
Blog author announces switching to English posts and previews attending the SpringOne tech conference in Antwerpen.
A review of Douglas Crockford's book 'Javascript: The Good Parts', analyzing its focus on the language's best features and advanced concepts.
Developer modifies TinyMCE plugin for b2evolution to add callbacks, enabling automatic integration of Gallery 2 image insertion.
A tutorial on creating a custom GridView extension method for ASP.NET MVC using C# lambdas for templating, paging, and editing.
Analysis of Adobe's strategic moves in 2007-2008, including acquisitions and new web-based products like Photoshop Express and Acrobat.com, showcasing their competitive push.
An analysis of 'sympathy crunch' and work-life balance issues at video game developer Bioware, based on archived forum posts and employee accounts.
Analyzes if Web 2.0 can become profitable by moving beyond simple ads to targeted, data-driven referrals, using Mint.com as a key example.
A developer's experience attending Google Developer Day 2008 Japan, focusing on learning Google App Engine and building a simple prefix expression evaluator.
A developer's review of NDepend, a tool for analyzing code dependencies, metrics, and quality using visual diagrams and a custom query language.
Announces ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 release, detailing key changes like new controller action returns and routing updates.
How the developers used Pylint to refactor and clean up the codebase for the Entertainer media center software.
