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Information flow

As I took using of excellent Obsidian project, I’m trying to go from data -> insights. But a lot of times actually it’s more toying with technologies tha...

TDD meets Maven

Recently I went to a TDD course with the amazing Sandro Mancuso. One of the things I really like was convention of naming the test classes following the sche...

Mission, Vocation, Profession and Passion

My GTD system using Google tools

As a big fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done book I try to apply it’s principles in organizing my personal life and tasks. I also really like using Goog...

Exporting photos from Shotwell

I’m using excelent app Shotwell on ubuntu, in order to classify my fotos by periods that they were taken. Unfortunately it does not allow you to export such ...

Fixing problem with missing EXIF information in photos sent in whatsapp

I’m using excelent app Shotwell on ubuntu, in order to classify my fotos by periods that they were taken. Recently I run into problem that all photos I recei...

Trick for filtering by array size in MongoDb

If you have a document structure with array in it, for example: { "arr":[1, 2, 3] }

Comparision between Spring (@Component and @Autowired) and java (@Named and @Inject)

So I found this awesome article that lists all combinations of usage of dependency injection provided by Spring and Java CDI.

Pitfalls with getting Acitviti variable value

Today I was doing unit tests for one Activiti flow. In the end of the test I wanted to assert value of output variable of that flow.

Make the first step

So yeah, the more important stuff for every project you undertake (to prevent paralysis by analysis)

Google Reader starred items (json file) to Instapaper (also for Pocket) format

As we all know Google Reader closed it’s site and left me with a huge collection of starred articles pending to be moved somewhere else. My current preffered...

Forwarding AFTER filtering in Gmail

The problem: I want to forward all of my mail to other email account (for example my cell phone Email2SMS address). I want to be able to filter some of the m...

IM History Converter Application

When transitioning to a new job, I got faced with problem of what to do with chat histories I have amassed in my last job. We have used pidgin for communicat...

Tagging maven build with SVN version, and using this version inside application

To do this, you need to take following steps:Add build-number plugin to your project main POM... <build> ... <plugins...

Robots at work

This might be the future of MFC technology we work now with. Worth a try.

You are being monitored

Oldie, but Goldie ...

Language talks :)

The Last Language War / Language Trolling Post You'll Ever Need To Read (Hopefully) - I never have so much laugh since reading How to shoot yourself in the l...

Classes vs. Ids

Today, while trying to fix broken rendering of aero-bg.com on Firefox, I delved deeper in CSS of site. Interesting though the css, almost randomly used in s...

Exploits For A Mom

Recently SQL injection is a next big thing. So let's see an up side of it :)So, do You SANITIZE?

Top Ten Software Architecture Mistakes

I have stumble upon some of this mistakes, and some of them could be avoided just by better planning. So this are good things for me to know in my future car...

Scrum stickies

This is our interpretation of sticky notes task implementation. Direct on office windows. Cute :)

Industria is in top 50 key innovators

It’s not every day that Industria(the company I work for) is mentioned along with household names such as Adidas, BSkyB, BMW, Rolls Royce, Royal Bank o...

How to implement Java Web Services with XFire

Exporting WebService with XFire Using XFire proprietary configuration file - This method is simple and has a good interoperability with .Net applications. ...

Inheritance and XFire

Sometimes we need to use polymorphism and it is already supported by WSDL, so here is a little tricky explanation how to do this using XFire. For example we...

Creating WS from an WSDL file

If you must use preexisting WSDL file, You can use tool in XFire to generate you an Java implementation of it. It's like issuing this ant script: <target ...

Creating WS from scratch

In this case we just create our Java interface and implementation and annotate them with JSR-181 annotations. After this WSDL can be retrieved by going to h...

Exporting WebService - Using XFire with Spring

Project structure and contents Template project is attached to this page, feel free to use it and update it. As all Java WS are deployed as WAR file, at so...

Exporting WebService - Using XFire with Spring and JSR181 Annotations

 NOT WORKING This still does not work, look at Codehaus issue, when this is resolved is worth trying again   Project structure and contents Templ...