Comparing AppDynamics vs DynaTrace, CA Wily, Precise and HP
An article about how to compare APM products and a rating of the leadings APM vendors by utilizing the experience of many head-to-head proof of concepts and the feedback of our customers.
View ArticleWhy good metrics values do not equal good quality
Code metrics like cyclomatic complexity or test coverage are measured during continuous integration or in IDEs like Eclipse. But do metrics really show the quality of code? Or are they just an...
View ArticleMeasure Java Performance – Sampling or Instrumentation?
Article showing the details of performance measurement with sampling and instrumentation approach.
View ArticleGoogle App Engine Persistence – Generic repositories with Objectify
Nice tutorial how to use Google App Engines datastore in Java using Objectify.
View ArticleTesting and Mocking of Static Methods in Java
A showcase how to mock static methods in Java.
View ArticleSWT and Spring’s @Configurable – Dependency Injection for the UI
A tutorial how to use Spring in SWT applications.
View ArticleProvisioning of Java web applications using Chef, VirtualBox and Vagrant
Nice article that shows how to provision a Java application using Open Source technologies/tools. A first step to Continuous Delivery setup.
View ArticleSOAP web services with iOS
The article discusses the implementation of SOAP based WebService calls on iOS in comparison to Java. It also gives some hints how to implement SOAP on iOS and which libraries should be used.
View ArticleShort Introduction to iOS for Java Developers: MVC
A series for Java developers who want to learn about iOS, Objective-C and best practices.
View ArticleShort Introduction to iOS for Java Developers: SDK
The first article about iOS for Java developers that introduces the iOS development environment and SDK.
View ArticleCompiler aware internationalization (I18N) with Java ResourceBundle
Interesting article about how to develop compiler aware resource bundles. Including example and source.
View ArticleBest development tools in the cloud
This article gives an overview about development tools in the cloud - like GitHub for version control, Cloudbees for continuous integration and Saucelabs for automated testing.
View ArticleFind Java Memory Leaks at Runtime (Act 5)
Nice tutorial how to find Java memory leaks at runtime.
View ArticleDistributed automated acceptance testing with Robot and Chef
Article how to to distributed, automated testing using Robotframework and Chef.
View ArticleAutomated Acceptance-Testing using Concordion
Article that explains the usage of the Concordian framework for automated acceptance tests. After Robotframework and JBehave this is this third article that describes the functionality of ATDD test...
View ArticleFind Memory Leaks at Runtime – Addendum
Interesting additional blog entry that shows the usage of plumbr a new and (currently) free runtime memory analysis tool.
View ArticleA business component architecture with Spring 3.0/3.1 – Part 2: Resources
Second part of the Spring business component architecture article.
View ArticleAnalyzing Production Outage Caused by Weblogic Compiler Threads
An example of an analysis of a stability problem in production.
View ArticleA business component architecture with Spring 3.0/3.1 – Part 3: Properties
A series about how to develop a business component architecture with Spring - part three is about properties.
View ArticleRobot Framework Tutorial – Overview
Very goog introduction to automated acceptance testing with the Robot Framework.
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