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This is video is quite recent, but already very popular. It's a parody of Lady Gaga songs, about Java. Looks like Oracle is gonna benefit of the Java wave even though they already declared themselves as bad asses, more interested on money and control than on technology. var params = { 'allowfullscreen': 'true', 'allowscriptaccess': 'always', [...]

Converting JavaBeans to XML and viceversa is quite a common task, and there are tons of libraries around for this purpose. But I always like to use what is already available in the JRE, avoiding dependencies as much as possible. In the past I and Simone developed a rest API using the JSR57 serialization, that [...]

Local repository modules are useful when your project depends on some jars that cannot be found in any public or proprietary repository. In such cases, you have two choices: importing the jar in your local repository manually before running the build, as suggested in the mvn faq, or make your build process do it for [...]

A super funny video about a young and rebel Java developer grown in a Microsoft family. var params = { 'allowfullscreen': 'true', 'allowscriptaccess': 'always', 'wmode': 'transparent' }; var attributes = { 'id': 'video1', 'name': 'video1'}; var flashvars = { 'file' : 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2109153/Blog/JavaZoneTrailer.flv', 'width' : '400', 'height' : '280', 'controlbar' : 'bottom', 'dock' : 'false', 'icons' [...]

I've been working in Düsseldorf for some years and now I am leaving because I got job elsewhere. But before I want to share my experience and some tips that could be useful to people working (or planning to work) abroad, and in particular in this geographical area. About Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is a wonderful place, [...]

There are a couple of cool features in GIT that may not be well known by everyone, depending on which platform you are using. For example on Linux it is quite common to have the bash completion working, while in Windows msysgit comes with a cool prompt which displays the current branch and some status [...]

Google just announced the Google Font API. This allows to include quality fonts in HTML pages, as easy as you were doing before with the "web-safe" fonts. You specify a css link, and the Google Font API will produce on the fly the CSS for your browser. Then you are ready to use any font [...]

Yesterday I wrote a post to explain how to link Android sources in Eclipse. If you use a different IDE, probably you can't have Eclipse facilities but it may be easier to have the sources "in line" with the android library. For myself usage I packed the android sources into some jar files. To have [...]

If you are working with the Android Development Toolkit (ADT) for Eclipse you may have noticed that the sources for android.jar are missing. The Android SDK comes without the sources, and even if you manage to download the source code for the Android library, the ADT does not allow you to attach the sources to [...]

If you have more than one laptop/computer on your desktop, you may find yourself jumping from a keyboard to another to make use of them. In this article I explain how I configured my laptops to share keyboard and mouse using synergy. It is always a good thing to have a second monitor, for example [...]