The Top 10 Productivity Booster Techs for Programmers

This is the list we've all been waiting for. The top 10 productivity booster techs for programmers that - once you've started using them - you can never do without them any longer. Here it is: 1. Git Before, there were various version control systems. Better ones, worse ones. But somehow they all felt wrong … Continue reading The Top 10 Productivity Booster Techs for Programmers

Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lambdas and XML

At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we're really into jOOQ's fluent API and query DSL, we're absolutely thrilled about what Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. We have blogged a couple of times about some nice Java 8 goodies, and now we feel it's time to start a new blog series, the... … Continue reading Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lambdas and XML

A jOOX First-Time Experience Article

Here's some nice first-time user experience about jOOX, my lesser-known product: http://www.kubrynski.com/2013/03/as-developer-i-want-to-use-xml.html As a reminder, here's what jOOX is all about: jOOX stands for Java Object Oriented XML. It is a simple wrapper for the org.w3c.dom package, to allow for fluent XML document creation and manipulation where DOM is required but too verbose. jOOX only … Continue reading A jOOX First-Time Experience Article

FluentDOM, another mimick of jQuery DOM manipulation, in PHP

The triumph of jQuery over any other XML API seems prominent, in many languages. Here is another example of a nice jQuery-port to PHP: FluentDOM. http://fluentdom.github.com/ Similar to jOOX, FluentDOM aims to combine a jQuery-like fluent API with XPath and general DOM XML manipulation. Here are some simple examples taken from the FluentDOM documentation: // … Continue reading FluentDOM, another mimick of jQuery DOM manipulation, in PHP

Another Fluent API: jOOX. Porting jQuery to Java

Recently, in my every day programming madness, I really felt the urge to kill someone involved with the formal specification of DOM. The beloved Document Object Model. While everyone understands that this API is complete in functionality and scope and it's a standard, and it's almost the same in every language.... well it's incredibly verbose. … Continue reading Another Fluent API: jOOX. Porting jQuery to Java