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DZone Top Article of 2011: Ask DZ - What's the best programming advice you've ever got?

For example, Travis Griggs' blog post explains some of the best OOP advice he ever received.What is the best piece of advice anyone ever gave you, and why it...

22 replies - 15301 views - 01/18/12 by John Esposito in Articles

How Many Hours Can a Programmer Program?

I am a little late to this party where Michael Arrington says that startups mean working hard and sleeping under your desk. But I will add a few words. I read...

5 replies - 6522 views - 01/17/12 by Krishna Kumar in Articles

An Eclipse Template for Parameterized JUnit Tests

After refusing much of any changes, especially the ugly TestDecorator fixture, after TestNG showed up, JUnit went bonkers with a spasm of matching features....

0 replies - 2226 views - 01/16/12 by Rob Williams in Articles

Integrating JavaFX 2.0 with Swing and SWT

One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT. Several online resources document how this is...

0 replies - 1853 views - 01/14/12 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Associating Xtext editors to file names, instead of file extensions

I’m currently working on a Xtext-based editor for Google’s BUILD language, as described in our Google Engineering Blog. BUILD files do not contain an...

0 replies - 1436 views - 01/13/12 by Alex Ruiz in Articles

Have Your Say in the Name for the 2013 Eclipse Release

Last year it was Indigo, this year it will be Juno, and now the Eclipse community is voting on a name for the Eclipse release for June 2013. All you need to do...

0 replies - 1829 views - 01/12/12 by James Sugrue in Articles

Small, deployable commits

We've had an interesting discussion at our stand-up today. The discussion was triggered by Jan Filipowski post on "early commiting in TDD". The main...

0 replies - 2289 views - 01/12/12 by Andrzej Krzywda in Articles

Personal gains from contributing to Open Source

Many may find it difficult to understand why certain people spend a lot of their spare time producing stuff without being paid and then give it away for...

0 replies - 1884 views - 01/10/12 by Kristoffer Sjögren in Articles

DZone's Top Articles of 2011

This week, DZone has gathered together its top articles in every major topical area.  These were chosen based popularity and quality of content.  If you...

1 replies - 6091 views - 01/05/12 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles

Significant Software Development Developments of 2011

As I did in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, I summarize some of the software development events of 2011 that

1 replies - 8694 views - 12/28/11 by Dustin Marx in Articles

Using GlassFish from Eclipse

When I think of developing apps using GlassFish, I usually think of using NetBeans for the development. As you'd expect however, Oracle provides some good...

2 replies - 2442 views - 12/22/11 by David Salter in Articles

Video: Deploying Java Apps to the Cloud with the OpenShift Eclipse Plug-In

 Eclipse makes deployment easy -- now easy to the cloud as well, using the OpenShift Eclipse plugin.In this screencast, Grant Shipley shows you how to do...

0 replies - 1563 views - 12/21/11 by John Esposito in Videos

EclipseLink MOXy is the JAXB Provider in WebLogic Server 12c

I am very happy to announce that EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) is now the default JAXB (JSR-222) provider in WebLogic Server 12c.  I would like to thank the...

0 replies - 2068 views - 12/21/11 by Blaise Doughan in Articles

Eclipse GMF: a graphical editor for EMF models

Now we are going to see how to generate a complete graphical editor for the EMF model we created in preceding tutorials, Library.ecore. For this purpose, we...

1 replies - 2939 views - 12/17/11 by Vincenzo Caselli in Articles

The 1st Kolamba DZone Community Meetup

Be sure to check out the DZone Blog for pictures of our meetup last week at the HQ in Cary, NC!We successfully completed the first Kolamba DZone meetup with...

1 replies - 4094 views - 12/16/11 by Prabath Siriwardena in Articles