The 90^th Percentile

Ignacio Coloma on tech and the remaining 10%

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 12:00

My top list of java tools

Lack of imagination is one of our worst sins as software developers. We do the same things over and over again, but we rarely modify our ways - me at least. After some years, these are the tools that made it into my tricks box for everyday tasks. Tiresome operations are not my thing.
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 08:00

"Practical API Design", the book

It got mentioned on the last OpenJavaDay (thanks Ibon!) with such a good review that I got my own copy of Practical API Design by Jaroslav Tulach. The book describes the set of standards developed by the Netbeans team during the last ten years, from framework novices to their current state of maturity.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 - 06:00

The coolest prototype calendar ever

Roberto has been doing amazing things with calendars these days. With current loom trunk, this java attribute:
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 17:13

My take on the SpringSource license change

I have real problems getting what all this fuss is about:
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:00

Recycle your HTML-fu

Recycling is good.
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