The current state of SQL may cause some developers physical pain, especially when they see an industry-wide survey released by Couchbase yesterday that suggest a strong growth in NoSQL adoption in 2012. As a self-defined "Simple, Fast, Elastic NoSQL Database," Couchbase has recently rebranded their NoSQL Membase server from Membase to Couchbase.  This merger of Membase, an open source... - zwiń

As the “father of the Internet,” Tim Berners-Lee, got onto a plane to head to the burgeoning tech center of Tyler, Texas (all sarcasm intended), he must have wondered how he found himself in this position. Berners-Lee is testifying at a court case of a patent holder who is suing Google, Amazon, and others regarding the viability of a patent claiming intellectual property ownership over the... - zwiń

Curator's note:  Is this two-faceted method for determining language popularity a good metric.  The correlation definitely helps its case but I know that Stack Overflow volume doesn't always indicate popularity, but rather, confusion.  Also, RedMonk's charts are showing C# slightly ahead of Java on SO but on the tags page, you can see that C# has almost 60k more tags (almost 25% more) and the... - zwiń

Java 7 has been available for a while now, and according statistics that Jelastic ran, it's market share is growing, albeit slowly. The article states that Java 7 accounts for 17% of the market while Java 6 still holds 83%.  With Java still holding it's own on the latest TIOBE index, there's no doubt that it's not losing it's appeal to developers and... - zwiń

Two weeks ago, all Scala projects required a little bit of extra configuration to point to a custom repository for Scala artifacts hosted at scala-tools.org. Today, Scala artifacts are now available directly from Central. The contents of scala-tools.org are now integrated into the Sonatype OSS repository hosting service, and other projects have started to publish artifacts Central. ... - zwiń

Last time we have learnt the basics of WADL. The language itself is not as interesting to write a separate article about it, but the title of this article reveals why we needed that knowledge. Preview Text:  Last time we have learnt the basics of WADL. The language itself is not as interesting to write a separate article about it, but the title... - zwiń

Patrick Dubois, the Godfather of DevOps (and a DZone MVB), has created a few open source tools and one of them, VeeWee, is a tool for building boxes for a few of his favorite tools like Vagrant, KVM, and Virtual Box.  In this video you will witness the magic of VeeWee as Dubois sets up a Windows 7 box with VeeWee from scratch.From the GitHub page:VeeWee: the tool to easily build vagrant base... - zwiń

Every time I used to see some duplication of code, I used to move that code to a new method. With Tapestry, you begin to think differently. Now every time I see duplication, my first thought is “Can I create a worker for it”. In my current project, I am using a few new ones. So I thought why not share them with you. @ReportException My onSuccess methods usually are of the form ... - zwiń

Java can be very tricky some times, especially in API design. Let’s have a look at a very interesting showcase. jOOQ strongly separates API from implementation. All API is in the org.jooq package, and public. Most implementation is in the org.jooq.impl package and package-private. Only factories and some dedicated base implementations are public. This allows for very powerful package-level... - zwiń

Here are the slides for my presentation during the first DZone VIP meetup in Bulgaria. The presentation is short, and the slides can definitely be better, but I’m sharing it anyway. Preview Text:  Here are the slides for my presentation during the first DZone VIP meetup in Bulgaria. The presentation is short, and the slides can definitely be... - zwiń