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Did You Know enums Can Define Their Own Methods?

… I sure as hell didn’t, but found myself in a position the other day where I was thinking “Damn, I wish I could define a common method in this enum that I could call and not have to write another utility method…” Well, ask and ye shall receive… or something like that. Here’s the enum [...]

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Beginners Guide to Quick File Listing Using Ruby

As a beginner to the Ruby language, I often found myself needing feedback listing which files are in a given directory. Ruby, for that reason alone, has been a quick savior. A couple of Google searches on this topic will land you somewhere near the Ruby class Dir. Dir is a part of the [...]

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Develop using the Play! Framework

Not too long ago I posted an article on the Play! framework. The framework has some promising features that really helps develop web applications in Java. To show how easy it is to use, I wanted to demonstrate with an example. Update #1: Since the article posting there have been a couple of suggestions for [...]

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The Play! Framework

In an endless search for efficiently building Web applications, one might stumble upon a new framework called Play! Using enterprise backed Java with a Rails-esque feel, the Play! framework seems to offer quite a bit over traditional web development tools with its straightforward development environment and ease of deploying. Taken from the website: The Play! framework makes [...]

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How to Setup an SVN Server to use in Eclipse

So, after thousands of lines of code you’ve managed to build an awesome, feature rich program, and you are really to label it 1.0. You want to bring in more developers because it is doing so great… What do you do? Well, regardless of whether you have hit 1.0, version control is something [...]

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A Quick Introduction to C#

With Mono’s 2.0 release it seems there’s no better time than now to start investing in C#, especially if you are looking for platform independence. To help move that investment along, I’ve written up a small tutorial that should get you up and running with C#. Before we begin, you’ll need to grab [...]

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