Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Command Line

I looked at a simple JavaFX version of the ubiquitous Hello World example from a NetBeans 7.1 beta perspective in…

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Project Jigsaw Booted from Java 8?

In his post Project Jigsaw: Late for the train, Mark Reinhold’s proposes ‘to defer Project Jigsaw to the next release,…

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The Software Developer’s Pensieve

Fictional stories (especially science fiction) are full of gadgets and other items that I wish were available to me today.…

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Software Architects Need Not Apply

I saw an online job posting several years ago that listed a set of desired software development and programming skills…

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Moving Beyond Core Hamcrest in JUnit

In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest I introduced use of Hamcrest with JUnit. I then looked…

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JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support

In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest, I briefly discussed Hamcrest “core” matchers being “baked in” with…

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NetBeans 7.2 Introduces TestNG

One of the advantages of code generation is the ability to see how a specific language feature or framework is…

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NetBeans 7.2 beta: Faster and More Helpful

There has been significant excitement about the beta release of NetBeans 7.2. In this post, I look briefly at what…

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The Developer/Non-Developer Impedance Mismatch

Most software developers have probably heard of and even had experiences with the object-relational impedance mismatch (often addressed with ORM…

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