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Applications Can't Use SharePoint Master Pages This is the story of stupid SharePoint problem and an ugly, kludgy, and embarrasing solution. On our project we have th...

Lee Richardson | .Net | 2008-11-12 12:08:28.0

Eight Miserable TFS Features I'd prefer to post a positive, happy, or ideally emotion-agnostic technical post, but today Microsoft Visual Studio Team...

Lee Richardson | .Net | 2008-11-06 10:39:29.0

The Agile Attitude Part 1: Transparency Transparency: Implies openness, communication, and accountability Agile has always espoused the importance of tra...

Jeff Borst | Agile | 2008-11-03 15:55:38.0

Forget Burndown Use Burnup Charts Agile projects traditionally use burndown charts to visually show work remaining over time. This could be for the curre...

Lee Richardson | General | 2008-10-23 22:41:25.0

YSlow Rules and Tomcat 5.5 SSL A few weeks ago I attended The Rich Web Experience where I went to talks by Scott Davis and Nathaniel Schutta and hear...

Robert Donaway | Java | 2008-10-21 08:14:11.0

Polyglot Persistence In late 2006 Neal Ford wrote about Polyglot Programming and predicted the wave of language choice we are now seeing in...

Scott Leberknight | General | 2008-10-15 17:26:36.0

Apache Commons Collections For Dealing With Collections In Java ... If you are (stuck) in Javaland, which for my main project I currently am, and you'd like a little of the closure-like go...

Scott Leberknight | Java | 2008-10-03 17:15:30.0

Near Infinity and Mother Earth are BFF! That's right, NIC has made a best-friend-forever by treating our planet with the respect that it deserves (and it ju...

Anna Steele | General | 2008-10-02 16:41:34.0

The "N matchers expected, M recorded" Problem in EasyMock ... EasyMock is a Java dynamic mocking framework that allows you to record expected behavior of mock objects, play them bac...

Scott Leberknight | Java | 2008-09-30 17:43:21.0

How to implement row level access control in Lucene Below I have written some fully functionally code that shows how you could implement row level access control in Lucene ...

Aaron McCurry | Lucene | 2008-09-27 21:08:42.0

Day 3 of the JVM Language Summit By far the most entertaining and most thought provoking presentation of the JVM language summit was given by Erik Meijer...

Bryan Weber | Java | 2008-09-27 13:34:12.0

Day 2 of the JVM Language Summit Well, how often do you get to speak to an employee of Sun, Google and Microsoft in the same day? And not just any emplo...

Bryan Weber | Java | 2008-09-26 00:35:57.0

Day 1 of the JVM Language Summit JVM Language Summit - Day 1 Day 1 of the JVM language summit in Santa Clara has come and gone. The agenda can be f...

Bryan Weber | Java | 2008-09-24 23:57:52.0

JavaScript Particle Engine in Canvas The most popular entry I've written at Near Infinity has been the JavaScript Particle Engine . It had limitations beca...

Jason Harwig | Javascript | 2008-09-23 19:24:23.0

A whirlwind tour of Bloom filters What's a Bloom filter? A Bloom filter is a memory and cpu efficient way to remember which things have been seen and w...

Seth Schroeder | Ruby | 2008-09-07 13:53:55.0

Lucene is a memory hog! Let me start by saying that, I like Lucene, I have used it to solve many technical problems on my current project. But o...

Aaron McCurry | Lucene | 2008-09-03 22:29:41.0

Using a Hibernate Interceptor To Set Audit Trail Properties In almost every application I've done, the database tables have some kind of audit trail fields. Sometimes this is a sep...

Scott Leberknight | Java | 2008-08-27 11:47:19.0

JSF Editable Datatable I recently needed to create a "JSF Editable Datatable" where all fields (or a subset) could be edited at once...

Michael Bevels | General | 2008-08-26 15:55:31.0

Cloud-Oriented Architecture With all the hype this year about cloud computing and things like Amazon EC2/S3 as well as Google App Engine and Bigtabl...

Scott Leberknight | General | 2008-08-18 11:04:03.0

Validating Domain Objects in Hibernate Part 6: Integration With Web... This is the final (and way, way overdue) article in a series of blogs describing how you can effectively use Hibernate v...

Scott Leberknight | Java | 2008-08-13 11:02:22.0