Gradle, the build system, is a DSL on top of Groovy. The build scripts (which are really configuration scripts) are Groovy code. So why do they look so weird? Today I configured a particular obscure property of the eclipse plugin in milestone 6 of Gradle. The answer looks like: apply plugin: ‘eclipse-wtp’eclipse { wtp { …
This week I presented a lunch’n’learn about Oracle BPM 10g. The theme of the presentation was “This is why you should never use this product if you have a choice.” Business Process Modeling (BPM) can have a lot of value to the business. It’s effectively a graphical Domain-Specific Language (DSL). Even when the implemented logic …
At work, we use dependency injection to build up small, decoupled classes each with a single responsibility. DI lets us assemble these in multiple different ways, so we can use the same class for similar processes. This strategy of combining small pieces of functionality in different ways is also a goal of functional programming. Let’s …
And there was pain… I imported an existing Android project into IntelliJ Idea Community Edition 10.5.1. Some things started complaining “Please select Android SDK.” The help pages are out of date; they say to do this in the Android facet settings. It isn’t there. Here is the secret do-things-right button: Module settings (ctrl-alt-shift-S), then pick …
If you’re looking for interesting reading, this is not it. Today the question emerged: where are this test’s log messages going? Sticking a debug point somewhere and doing Logger.getLogger(“blah”), then digging into the resulting Logger object, revealed the answer. The Logger object had a parent member (a RootLogger), which had a member aai (AppenderAttachableImpl), which …
If you’re looking for interesting reading, skip this post. If you’re trying to find out what database, username, and password Hibernate is using to execute the query, continue. This post is a reference for me, and it might be useful to someone else someday. Set a debug point anywhere you can get to the Hibernate …
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In the IT department where I work, our goals include clarifying and drawing out the processes used and decisions made by the business. Processes and decisions are our competitive advantage. The strategic direction is to center our products around Business Process Management. BPM models call out the major steps in the business process into charts …
This week I had a major success improving the performance of our application, thanks to some judicious use of JProfiler. The key was setting the filters correctly. This post will show you how to do that. First, you need JProfiler. This is a commercial product You can get a ten-day evaluation license for free, and …
There’s a big rant floating around the internet this week about Products vs Platforms. Platforms are service-based, with layer upon layer of exposed and secured and throttled services, while Products give the user everything they need in a perfect streamlined form. That is, Products give the user exactly what the builder of the Product believes …
Dart is a nascent web development language. What’s the point? I observe two. Uniformity and familiarity: Like Node.js, Dart wants to run both in the browser and on the server. It tries to look familiar to both JavaScript and Java developers, so that either can adapt quickly. The goal is to move away from having …