Effective Java, second edition – Book Review

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Before reading that book, I read the translation in French of the first edition, but I've thinked that it will be interesting to read the second edition and this time in English.This book is the book to read if you want to write good Java code. … [Read more...]

IntelliJ Idea 10 Early Acces Program is here

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Today, the Early Access Program (EAP) has been opened for IntelliJ Idea 10.There is a lot of changes, here are some of them (the most interesting in my point of view) :Faster indexing speed Java - Faster method usage search Spring Web … [Read more...]

Discover Java VisualVM 1.3

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2 days ago, Java VisualVM 1.3 has been released. We'll see what's new with this release.At this time, there is no package for Ubuntu, so we'll install it manually :wget … [Read more...]

Top 15 Best WordPress Plugins

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When working on a Wordpress site or blog, it's essential to install several plugins to optimize the site readibility, accessibility, performances, ...Here are 15 plugins that I think the best of the Wordpress plugins and that I use everyday. The … [Read more...]

Tip : Optimize images on Ubuntu Linux

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When working with a lot of images by example for galleries on a website, it could be really interesting to optimize the images to save a lot of space and directly improve the performances of the website and save some traffic if this is limited by … [Read more...]

IntelliJ Idea 9.0.3 is here !

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A new version of IntelliJ Idea is available : IntelliJ Idea 9.0.3A new UI for merging Subversion branches A new tool to store encrypted passwords for VCS, proxy server etc. A lot of bugfixes, more than 350 The HTML editor comes with … [Read more...]

OSGI and Spring Dynamic Modules – Simple Hello World

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In this pose st, we'll take the first implementation we made using OSGi and use Spring Dynamic Modules to improve the application.Spring Dynamic Modules (Spring Dm) makes the development of OSGi-based applications a lot more easier. With that, … [Read more...]

Tip : Profile an OSGi application with VisualVM

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When you develop applications and you've performance problems, it's really interesting to see what can cause this problems. And it that case, the profilers are the most useful tool. By example, we can use VisualVM, packed by default with the Java … [Read more...]

Play Framework – The template engine

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In the previous post about Play Framework, we seen how to install Play and create a first simple application. In this post, we'll see how to customize the views and use the template engine of the framework to easily create web pages.Play has its … [Read more...]

OSGi – Simple Hello World with services

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In this post, we'll develop a simple Hello World application with OSGi. We will use Felix as OSGi container. In the next post, we'll continue with this application and use Spring Dynamic Modules to improve it.To make the development interesting, … [Read more...]