A Java geek

Java, Scala, complexity and aardvarks

This week saw another flame war from some of the Scala crowd. This time, it was toward Stephen Colebourne, the man behind Joda time. To be frank, I tend to agree to Stephen’s predicat but for very different reasons. Now, if you’re a Scala user, there are basically 2 options.

JavaEE

Learning Vaadin contest winners

Dear readers, thanks for your participation in the 'Learning Vaadin' contest. It’s my pleasure to announce the winners.

JavaEE

Win Free Copies of Learning Vaadin book

To celebrate the release of my new book, Learning Vaadin, Packt is giving away 3 copies especially to my blog readers. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the lucky winners. Overview of Learning Vaadin Discover the Vaadin framework in a progressive and structured wayLearn about components, events, layouts, containers, and bindings Read more about this book and download a free sample chapter. How to Enter?

Book

Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

This review is about Apache Maven 3 Cookbook by Srirangan from Packt Publishing.

Java

Configuring Maven to use SLF4J

I mainly write articles for two reasons: to understand something that is new to me or to document something I regularly have to explain to others. This article definitely falls in the second category: in order to celebrate the new 1.0.0 version of Logback, I’ve decided to write down once and for all how to properly use SLF4J with Maven since it seems there’s no shortage of questions about it.

JavaEE

Learning Vaadin is out

This is it! After 10 monts of work, my first book is out: 'Learning Vaadin' is now available at Packt and Amazon. First things first, what’s is Vaadin? Vaadin is a presentation-layer web framework that let you easily develop Rich Internet Applications. It does so by provding an abstraction over the Servlet API and by letting developers assemble components to design screens (as opposed to pages as in previous generation web frameworks).

Development

Simplest Push

When I began working more than 10 years ago, I expected push technologies from web (or application) servers. I was very disappointed when I realized that, no, there weren’t such things. Nowadays, there are many attemps at providing push technologies. They even come from such simple technologies as HTML: aside from WebSockets, I recently learned about Server-Sent Events, another push technology brought by HTML5.

Java

Maven doesn't suck, your POM does

Maven bashing is an all-time favorite: there are plenty of articles telling how Maven downloads the whole Internet, or how POMs are bloated and so on. While I agree that Maven could be perfected, I’m also aware that some (if not most) of its shortcomings are not intrinsic but are caused by (very) bad configuration. Worse, even if used correctly in your projects, problems sometimes come from third-party dependencies! You do not believe me?

Book

Free eBook: Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

Dear readers, In order to celebrate the release of Apache Maven 3 Cookbook, Packt Publishing contacted me in order to hold a contest to grab a free copy of the eBook! To be frank, I haven’t a clue toward organizing a contest so the first three who send me a mail at nicolas at frankel dot ch with the subject 'Apache Maven 3 Cookbook' will be sent the eBook for free. Don’t waste your time: on your mark, ready, go! And thanks Packt for these gifts.

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