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Eclipse cannot find Java SDK 1.6 in Mac OS X

By | December 9, 2010

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Days ago when I tried to write code just for relaxing (I’m going to explain this technique in another article), I had this error message in Eclipse: JVM 1.6.0 disappeared!  My first idea was that something happen with the default installation of Java in Mac OS X because  manually installed JVM 1.4.2 and JVM 1.5.0 [...]

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Creativity and Recognition

By | December 9, 2010

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Early this year, while I was searching more information about right brain I found this video where Daniel Pink shares an interesting tip: Exercise Creativity at Your Job! Daniel Pink: Exercise Creativity at Your Job The video is very short but it had a huge impact on me because it motivated me to review all [...]

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Defining SMART Goals

By | December 4, 2010

SMART Goals in your life is a very good topic to talk about because you can learn from others point of view and gather that information and use it to improve yourself. That’s what happened after my previous post because I received a lot of interesting feedback and that’s why I’ve found important to write [...]

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Finding a jar file which contains a Java class

By | December 4, 2010

Have you ever needed to find a jar file which contains a particular java class? If you’re answer is affirmative, please continue reading! In this short article, I will share one way to do this task in the Unix-like world using sh, ksh or bash. There’re a lot of other ways to do this task [...]

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Ready for Anything

By | November 28, 2010

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Two years ago I’ve started the journey of using Getting Things Done in my life, at the very beginning it was very difficult for me because I procrastinate a lot but when I started to see the results that it produced in my work I decided to follow it in all my activities. GTD is [...]

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Learn at least one programming language per year

By | November 26, 2010

One of my favorites techniques to keep my mind with new things and ideas about software development is learning at least one programming language per year. No matter if you’re are a programmer, software architect or a guy with programming  in his heart but doing project management stuff. Learning a new programming languages is not [...]

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Recommended Plugins for WordPress

By | November 22, 2010

These are the plugins that I’ve found highly recommendable over my first year using WordPress: All in One SEO Pack: worry about Search Engines? This plugin does a lot of things to optimize your site for search engines. Google Analytics for WordPress: configures Google Analytics in your website and do a little bit more with [...]

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SpringMVC – Easymock – TDD

By | November 16, 2010

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New screencast! This time I’m showing how to implement a simple Spring MVC Controller with TDD and EasyMock. In next episodes I’m going to add more features so stay tuned. Note: I assumed a basic knowledge of SpringMVC SpringMVC – Easymock – TDD My english is not good but I hope anyone can understand me, [...]

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