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Working on a new project, I had a few chats to people and realized that many developers assume that to work with JAXB you need to have an XML schema.
This is not true. If you have the schema, go ahead and use it, but if you only have the XML files you want to parse, JAXB is perfectly capable of unmarshalling your XML into objects without the schema and the binding.
The only problem is – …
Photodropper is an excellent plugin that lets you find creative-commons photos in Flickr and add them to your posts.
On my blog, I use those images only to display at the top left of the post. If you like the way the images look here, you might want to make the following change to the plugin, so that it creates the right code (and not center the photo automatically).…
This post is part of the “Be nice to your users” web UI design series.
There are many things that contribute to the rise or fall of your website. Anyone, and Google especially, will tell you that content is king. You have to have good, original content. Your site needs to be original, provide good value for your users, etc etc.
But there are always those small things that can make or break it for you.
Design …
I am working on three projects at the same time. One of them is my paying job – a large bespoke development using JEE, Seam framework, Hibernate and a structured waterfall process that has gone all over the place as we’re nearing delivery to a fixed schedule (that, truth be told, was postponed for a few weeks…) The team is not huge – there are six developers and two testers, together with a DBA, an architect, a …
One of the techniques I use when interviewing people for a job is reverse-interview.
The method is quite simple. The applicant walks in, you have a little chit-chat to break the ice, and then you reverse the role. Ask him to interview you for the job at hand and see what happens.
What the …?
Well, think about it. When you interview someone for a position, your questions direct the interview. You may find that the …
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