 I'm one of the signatories to the infamous Entity Framework Vote of No Confidence. Back then, the Entity Framework was being released by Microsoft, punted as the solution to all our problems; the reality was different. It was as if the ADO EF team had come out of 'varsity in the 90's, all fired up by the success of Enterprise Java, and determined to duplicate that success. The movement of the industry away from bloated ORM's seemed to have passed them by. The Repository pattern, POCO's, Domain Driven Design; all were foreign concepts to the Entity Framework.
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 How-to on how to get a Rails 3 app running on Ubuntu 10.04 using Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition.
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 The phrase "team-building exercise" has a literal meaning for the IT staff at JM Family Enterprises Inc. A group of tech workers plays pickup basketball in the company's parking garage in an area that executives have agreed to keep clear for the hoop and the regular lunchtime games. Another group of IT workers heads out to run together, while another works out at the same time in the company gym.
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 A while back, Rebecca Murphey started posting some interesting thoughts about what enterprise Javascript applications are and how they should be structured. One of her posts that really got me thinking was one titled, "On Rolling Your Own". In that particular post (with reference to a few others
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 Over the last few years, continuous integration and related automation has expanded beyond build and unit test and moved into deployments, promotions, and releases. With that shift, a number of terms have popped up to describe what people are doing. We hear about Enterprise Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, DevOps, Build Pipelines and more. This article takes a quick look at those new terms, what they mean, how they're different and what's in common.
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 Quick how-to on monitoring a JBoss Server start using twiddle, which is much better alternative than greping the console output. Simple and easy to understand.
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48hJSF Basics(06:19, 09. Sep. 2010)
 This is a brief tutorial that takes a quick look at some of the very basics of JSF, how we define pages and hook them up to server side objects. Rather than cover the fundamentals of starting a new JSF application, I’m going to start from one of the Knappsack archetypes which can provide you with a JEE 6 application ready to roll. In this case, we are going to start with a servlet based example so you can run it using the embedded servlet containers.
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