Natural Order Development

To start, I'm assuming you know what a permutation is - basically a shuffling of a sequence of items in a particular order. Preview Text:  A secure permutation is one in which an attacker, given any subset of the permutation, cannot determine the order of any other elements. A simple example of this would be to take a cryptographically...

1. Overview In this article, we will discuss the Spring org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException – this is typically the responsibility of a BeanFactory when a bean definition is invalid, the loading of that bean is problematic. The article will discuss the most common causes of this exception along with the solution for each one. Preview Text:  ...

Far too many Agile development projects fail. It is hard to even accurately measure the number of failures because so many software development projects end up “complete” and shipped, even though: Preview Text:  Over the years, I’ve worked on many different Agile teams and have consulted for and trained many teams on Agile development. In...

Though there is some decent documentation, I found that setting up Hive with a HBase back-end to be somewhat fiddly. Hopefully this guide will help you get started quicker. This article presumes that you already have HBase set up. If not, see my HBase quickstart. Preview Text:  Though there is some decent documentation, I found that...

I recently integrated Google Calendar into a Wicket application I use at home. As some requirements are atypical I want to describe them before going into too much detail: Preview Text:  I recently integrated Google Calendar into a Wicket application I use at home. As some requirements are atypical I want to describe them before going into too much...

Having lived through numerous attempts to build software embracing the concepts behind the agile manifesto, I feel there are three large categories folks fall into when talking about agile principles. Preview Text:  Having lived through numerous attempts to build software embracing the concepts behind the agile manifesto, I feel there are three...

This week marks the launch of my lingering weekend-project: scalabitz.com. It tries to surface interesting Scala content through the API of link-shortener Bit.ly. The site was built using Scala and Play (and a bit of Akka) with a MongoDB storage layer and can be found on GitHub. Preview Text:  This week marks the launch of my lingering...

This week marked the release of DZone's Core Spring Data Refcard. In it, author Oliver Gierke provides a must-have reference for developers who are using or interested in the Spring Data project. Preview Text:  This week marked the release of DZone's Core Spring Data Refcard. In it, author Oliver Gierke provides a must-have reference...

Dogfooding refers companies using their own software. According to Wikipedia,In 1988, Microsoft manager Paul Maritz sent Brian Valentine, test manager for Microsoft LAN Manager, an email titled “Eating our own Dogfood,” challenging him to increase internal usage of the company’s product. From there, the usage of the term spread through the company. Preview Text:  ...

Curator's Note: The content of this article was originally written by Alex Averbuch on the Neo4j blog.  Preview Text:  A bit has happened since I (Alex Averbuch) last updated you about progress in the LDBC (Linked Data Benchmark Council), and Neo’s part in it. So, without further ado . . . Legacy ...

Preview Text:  If you have a new web project or and existing Drupal site, the combination of Drupal and Apache Solr is both powerful and easy to set up thanks to the existing integration code. The module allows for substantial customization with the administrative UI. Legacy Sponsored:  ...

Eating your own dog food is important in all walks of life: if you are a chef you should taste your own food; if you are a doctor you should treat yourself when you are sick; if you build houses for a living you should live in a house you built; if you are a parent then try living by the rules that you set for your kids (most parents would fail miserably at this!); and if you build software you...

The Health of PaaS via GitHub A university student from the Netherlands just had this study accepted to the 4th International Conference on Software Business. From the sample of data he gives us, it looks like OpenShift is on the rise, and GAE and EngineYard are on the decline according to developer interest on GitHub. Preview Text:  Today, check...

Managing Agile Teams from Øredev Conference on Vimeo. Preview Text:  A model of the predictable stages of agile team competency helps managers and leaders define the benefits they’re getting, determine the benefits they really want, and plan next steps. Join Diana Larsen in an exploration of ways leaders can use the model to analyze and monitor...

Apart from the “big stuff”, related to extension methods,  Preview Text:  Apart from the “big stuff”, related to extension methods, lambda, and thestreams API, Java 8 also has a couple of minor, very subtle changes. Legacy Sponsored:  unsponsored ...

Grails has great support for testing. We can unit test controllers, taglibs, services and much more. One of the things we can unit test are views and templates. Suppose we have a view or template with some (hopefully simple) logic (a view/template should not contain complex logic), for example an if-else statement to display some content conditionally. We can write a test in Grails to see if the...

Learn how to easily create a thumbnail zoom transition when launching a new activity. Code Zip http://developer.android.com/shareabl... Preview Text:  Learn how to easily create a thumbnail zoom transition when launching a new activity in Android. This is the final video in the DevBytes series. Legacy Sponsored:  ...

A decade ago I was giving a talk at the Polytechnic University of Valencia on how to use mobile phones in Health Care services. It was about a J2ME based application that easily collects user data and then sends it back to a server for processing using REST services. It was a simple idea by today's standards but it was attacked by many experts and people in the audience because it felt like...

There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution and citation really matter. Some of them passionately engage in arguments that last months or years, debating the merits of comma placement in written citations for the work of others. Bizarre, right? Preview Text:  There have always, it seems, been people for whom attribution...

We tried a new retrospective prioritization/voting technique this week that worked really well. After we had generated and discussed all of our ideas for improvement, it was clear to me that there were several excellent ideas and it would be hard to use our regular voting technique to single out one or two. In fact, it seemed clear that there were several ideas that should all be done...