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John Esposito07/24/12
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OCR Helps Data Management More Than You Think

IDC estimates that data will grow 50-fold by 2020, while the number of information containers will multiply by 75. Unfortunately, a lot of that data is still locked away in physical documents; and as a developer in the age of big data, you'll be the one expected to make that data useful. Here's how to make it work.

Geertjan Wielenga07/24/12
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NetBeans IDE 7.2: Smarter & Faster

NetBeans IDE 7.2 is alive! The NetBeans IDE 7.2 release comes with significantly improved performance and many new features in the Java Editor, with a special focus on FindBugs integration, providing new static code analysis capabilities.

Alex Tkachman07/17/12
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Kotlin in action: wrapping vert.x

This is pretty short note where I want to show power of Kotlin in real life use.We will wrap amazing vert.x framework in order to make it a bit Kotlin-ish but the main goal will be to show couple of standard ways to wrap existing Java API.Let us start with...

Mahdi Yusuf07/12/12
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The Most Pressed Keys in Various Programming Languages

Check out these really interesting heat maps of the keys on a keyboard that are pressed the most often in various programming langauges.

Mitch Pronschinske07/01/12
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Take the HTML5 Poll, Win a DZone Swag Pack!

Are you interested in finding out which HTML5 specs and other emerging web standards are being implemented in todays websites? Interested in seeing if developers are converting many Flash web components to HTML5? You'll get the answer to these and many other questions by answering 11 easy questions in our HTML5 Zone survey.

Pavel Bernshtam06/26/12
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Using groovy scripts in your application deployment

Our server is actually jetty with our web application, but we want to make some checks before the server start in order to provide clear error messages w/o need for a user to scan log files.

Alex Tkachman06/24/12
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Kotlin in action: few tricks for every day use

In this post I would like to show several tricks, which I found to be very useful while develoiping small examples with the Kotlin programming language.

Mitch Pronschinske06/22/12
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Poll: Which Programming Language Needs to Die?

Pretty simple question. Which programming language do you think is bad for the developer community while it's still being used? Or which language do you think has stuck around in the industry for too long?

Stoimen Popov06/08/12
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Algorithm of the Week: Stack and Queue

The algorithm of the week is finally here! Introducing the Heapsort algorithm, which depends on a data structure called “heap”.

Mitch Pronschinske06/08/12
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Poll: Do You Consider Groovy "Production Ready"?

We recently got a post on Javalobby from a new contributor, Pavel Bernshtam.  He wrote an explanation of why he thinks Groovy is a "Better Java".  I was initially going to see how everyone on JL felt about...

Pavel Bernshtam06/08/12
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Groovy as "Better Java"

You can use groovy in different ways - for scripting, Grails, quick prototyping, creation of DSLs etc. But I like Groovy first of all as "better Java". Really, look - almost every Java code is valid Groovy code, i.e.

James Betteley06/03/12
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Upgrading Gradle

Upgrading to the latest verison of Gradle (or “Upgradling” as my colleague just called it) is fairly easy. But if you think there’s some simple gradle command to do it, then you’d be wrong. It’s basically the same as upgrading ant.

Mitch Pronschinske05/29/12
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DZone 2012 Community Survey - Gift Cards up for Grabs!

Each year we like to pick your brain to help us make things even better at DZone, and in return we are offering up one $100 and two $50 Amazon gift cards to randomly selected DZone members who respond to our annual survey.

Giancarlo Frison05/27/12
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SOA Principles: An Example App

I have released an application demonstrating how SOA’s principles can be applied into a small project making use of EIP (Enterprise Integration Pattern), IoC (Inversion of Control), and a building tool and scripting language such as Groovy.

Judah Johns05/14/12
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How fast are JVM-based languages growing among developers?

An analysis of JVM language popularity based on DZone and another blogger's JVM polls, plus some indeed trends for extra flavor.

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