benjaminpv

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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Solid copy on this. I'm under no delusions that MVC is The One True Way to handle architecting software, but I'll take it over joining a bunch of strings to generate a web page. I'd say anyone upset over MVC's leaky abst
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Fair enough, it's a matter of terminology then, I guess? Generally I think of Tomcat as being as much of an application server as something like JBoss is. Granted, JBoss/Wildfly has a lot more enterprise-y features, but they both
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
"Java application servers are dead" and since there's no alternative to Java application servers here's a solution I cooked up myself. Like I mentioned last time I appreciate an overview of modern Java practices but boy
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Definitely interested in this. I think a common problem with a lot of people, even people that are taught from a book, is that you tend to get 'stuck' at the layer of abstraction you first learned. People that don't want to
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
>I wonder why these protections aren’t enabled by default. Because bugs exposed by a change in Windows are used to denigrate Windows, not the developer of the buggy app[1]. [1]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing&#x
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Ironically the Java ecosystem could stand to use some garbage collection of its own: there's a ton of old, outdated info out there that both colors people's impressions of the language and teaches new players a whole manner of bad
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by benjaminpv 12y ago
Seconded. I always bristle when I see javadocs that include things like 'returns an object of [x] type that...' You're dealing with strong types, the signature provides all this information already. That, combined with good
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by benjaminpv 13y ago
Serious question for people that are familiar with Tor: given that we've already seen people get arrested for simply running an exit node, have features like hidden services made it any safer for someone that agrees with tor's pur