Groovy Timer example from Mr Haki shows how to schedule running of Groovy code.

A presentation on refactoring processes and the value of unit tests. Includes a definition of SOLID principals.

Not liking the fact that I need to write 2 different descriptions for the same bookmark to show up in @friendfeed and @twitter. I'd prefer it if twitter (or other text field limited sites) got a truncated or … version. @kevinw_links, @the_real_kevinw

Sun Microsystems announced the development of the Java Store some months ago. Providing simple, easy to use payment processes is key to any virtual store. This article details the PayPal integration that is in the Java Store Beta.

Some explanation of the very cryptic Microsoft Active Directory - LDAP Authentication error codes.

An example of the Method Chaining Factory Pattern that uses SQL like syntax to make readable database access.

A tutorial on how to implement a Connection Pool in Java.

A Grails gaelyk tutorial showing how to build grails based web apps that run on google app engine and persist data to the database.

A tutorial showing how to integrate Grails and Active Directory using the JSecurity plugin.

Build a google wave robot using google appengine, groovy and Gaelyk.

A short tutorial on how to make your own search engine with Apache Lucene.

A Lifehacker review of Speccy - a free windows app that inspects and displays your hardware specs

Grails AppEngine GORM plugin brings gorm's database dsl to Google AppEngine.

Groovy makes file reading & writing easier using withReader and withWriter methods.

A list of robbots, gadgets, extensions and addons for Google Wave.

A tutorial explaining how to integrate Riffsaw bpel implementation with JBoss ESB using webservices.

Use multiple authentication schemes in your grails apps and apply them programatically by using the ExceptionTranslationFilter, follow the example in this tutorial to see how easy it is.

Tips for building integration tests. Make sure to read the comments, some good stuff in there too!

A collection of current performance tuning and concurrency tips for Java applications running on windows, linux or AIX.

Some good tips on how to interview Java Developers including what types of questions to ask to asses their technical level of experience.

A nice collection of free server & network monitoring tools.

Example source code of how to use Atmosphere or the Servlet 3.0 specification to use asynchronous java server interactions.

A .Net example of how to develop a custom Google Wave Robot.

A Short tutorial illustrating how to develop restful Web Services using Net Beans on Google App Engine.

MySQL has some new features in it's 2009 enterprise release. This interview covers some of the featured items.

Lots of free, downloadable sounds including laugh tracks, burping, breathing etc…

A list and overview of some opensource uml tools.

A makeuseof tutorial on how to use the integration between google apps and url shortening service 'tinyurl'

Mr Haki's tutorial showing how to use Gradle to build a mixed Java & Groovy based application, run unit tests and easily add custom build features. Slick!

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Jeff Atwood's book review of 'Coders At Work', a collection of interviews of prominent and influential developers including Simon Peyton Jones, Joshua Bloch, Brad Fitzpatrick, Guy Steele and many more. I'm considering picking up a copy.

Kanban is an agile project management technique used to develop the right functionality at the right time.
This article is a simple case study showing how one team uses Kanban to schedule, plan and hand-off work to other teams.

UML tools, tutorials and a Quiz to test your competency.

Harvard Business Review on letting employees make mistakes to enable their growth.

Lucene is an open source Java project that provides a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library. This simple tutorial shows how to add Lucene to a MySQL based, data-driven application.

The Grails Atmosphere plugin adds support for Ajax and Comet (reverse ajax) to grails apps.

Java API for OpenFlashChart 2 open source project hosted on Google Code.

Mr Haki shows us how easy it is to encode and decode information in base64.

A Collection of sites that provide free sound effects for download.

Hibernate filter plugin for Grails adds hibernate validation and smart defaults anywhere in the application. The plugin is useful for enforcing security rules outside Gorm methods and without the need of DTOs.

A short overview of some emerging technologies that have the potential to be game changers in the next few years.

A great list of open source tools and resources for web design and development.

Web design inspiration and development resources.

Mr Haki shows us how to use Gaelyk & Groovy to file upload to a google app engine web application.

Mr. Haki with some Groovy string goodness.

use gorm to test your grails classes

A great list of downloads for fresh ubuntu installations.