Spock, the smarter testing and specification framework, is approaching its 0.4 release. This is the first part in a mini-series about upcoming new features in Spock 0.4.

The first time that someone taught me about Software Design Patterns it went something like this:

Recently, Typemock added a new free tool (now in public beta) to their offerings called Test Lint. The company says its the first and only coding advisor for unit tests in Visual Studio 2010. The free extension helps find common issues in unit test c...

I have ported minilzo.c (2.03) to pure java. Initial version is at http:code.google.compjava-compress. Yet to do final level regressionetc. Compression decompression of zero-filled-data and random-data is working properly.

When the KISS and DRY principles collide.

The article offers in depth analysis of 10 Maven myths, a thorough debunking of each one, and constructive ways to take action if you still disagree.

Could this be the fastest, best-looking, and most configurable browser available? SitePoint reviews the newly-released Opera 10.5.

Many applications use hibernate as OR-Mapper. This article shows an easy and fast way how to unit test your DAOs and domain model.

You developed a web-service and your consumer asks for a client? Here are some arguments why its a bad idea to deliver clients for web-services.

As much as I enjoy programming, I must in all honesty admit that I am a mediocre programmer who has always found a way to get to the big payoff — that is, when the program ran without syntax errors and something magical happened. It is not too surpri...

A friend of mine showed me this simple but effective technique to reduce PNG image file size without compromising too much of the image quality. I was pretty amazed and I want to share it with you all and I hope this will help you.

nugg.ad operates Europe’s largest targeting platform. The company’s core business is to derive targeting recommendations from clicks and surveys. They measure these, store them in log files and later analyze them. Heres the story of how they arrived ...

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) is an evolution in the thinking behind TestDrivenDevelopment and AcceptanceTestDrivenPlanning. It brings together strands from TestDrivenDevelopment and DomainDrivenDesign into an integrated whole, making the relati...

A unique logo formed a trademark from any brand or company. Design of a logo depends upon the kind of work done by the organization and creativity of designer. So here we have collected some of the fresh and new logo design for design inspiration.

The most important talent in programming.

Now a group of UK physicists have developed a way of doing quantum cryptography without sharing a reference frame.

On the flip side, Apple supporters echo the companys sentiments that Flash is a CPU hog and including support for the technology in Apples mobile line-up would negatively impact battery life.However, recent tests have put Flash up against HTML5, the ...

jquery is very clean and easy to integrate in web applications. To create password strength checker with jquery is simple and can be done easily. Recently , in my latest project , I have used it and liked the way it changes color.

jQuery has lots to offer for a Web Designer. With a little knowledge of copy-pasting you can now create some wow effects in mins. All you need is a good step by step tutorials that can make you feel like a professional Web Desinger.

In a day-to-day life the emails are occupied our life.If we can send our mails by using our java code without help of browser how we feel?This article do this.By using the Java Mail API send our mail with attachment without help of browser.This code ...

Top 5 Reasons to Attend the New Ehcache Webinar: 1. You want to watch Greg walk through the Spring Pet Clinic as an application example and show us how to tune it for maximum performance, both when using Hibernate and when caching result sets directl...

Determining a website’s popularity can be beneficial when you’re looking for areas of growth or sizing up the competition. Use these 10+ tools to help determine a website’s popularity and figure out if your site has a Rockstar status that you can sho...

Now that the Layar Augmented Reality Browser has been released on the iPhone, Id appreciate your help in finding Frosty the augmented-reality snowman (or would that be iPhrosty)? Simply do the five-minute augmented-reality scavenger hunt with your iP...

We where shipped the world’s very first Supermicro 2026TT-HIBXRF 2U Server, while the blades more or less existed before, the specialty on this configuration is that all 6 Sata channels are connected to the backplane. This enables us to use all Sata ...

Recently, I work on a warehouse optimization project. On interesting problem is to select an optimal pick tour for the pick agent, which is very much like a simplified path planning problem in a game world. I used the popular A`*` search algorithm an...