Life of the IT-Drummer

To combine Ruby and Java might seem like a challenge, but it’s actually quite easy using the Spring Framework. Feel free to follow along with my simple step by step instructions. I make programming FUN! These examples are collected from Spring In Action - Second Edition and uses Spring Framework 2.0.8.
1: Define a regular java [...]

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I recently discovered Code Golf, which is a web site with a collection of fairly simple programming challenges. You are free to choose from a set of languages (Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl) and the goal is not just to solve the challenge, but to solve it using as few characters as possible. It will not [...]

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