Glen Kunene
48 articles
PHP
DooPHP: Lightweight PHP Framework, Powerful Tool
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Just because a PHP framework is lightweight it doesn't mean it lacks power. Take the DooPHP framework. Short for Do OOP in PHP, DooPHP...
Enterprise Java
End Ambiguous Dependencies Errors with CDI Qualifiers
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Java EE 6 introduced Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) largely to facilitate typesafe dependency injection. In particular, CDI qualifiers -- Java annotations that are...
Java
Get Ready for Java 7 with the Free JDK 7 Reference Card
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Oracle submitted the release content for both Java SE 7 and 8 to the JCP at the end of last year. The JDK 7...
PHP
FPDF: PDF Creation and Manipulation in PHP
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PHP has supported PDF document manipulation for at least a decade, which many PHP developers implement for commercial purposes via the PDFlib library, a...
Enterprise Java
Java EE 6 Deployment Flexibility with CDI and the @Alternative Annotation
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CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) is an integral part Java EE 6. This powerful facility enables you to develop Java EE components with well-defined...
Java
Using Maven to Build a NetBeans 6.9 CRUD Application
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NetBeans 6.9 provides new support for Maven, including capabilities for building Maven Web applications, Maven enterprise applications, Maven EJB modules and so on. In...
Open Source
NASA ‘Middleware for Metadata’ Becomes Top-level Apache Project
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In 1998, NASA launched a project called Object-Oriented Data Technology (OODT) to create a framework for data sharing. Some 12 years later, OODT has...
PHP
PHP Command Line Scripting: Run Scripts from the Shell
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Did you know you can run PHP scripts from the command line using its command line interpreter (CLI) -- using your existing PHP language...
PHP
The New Features in PHP 5 Constructors and Destructors
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Constructors and destructors are among the most important functions in any type of object-orientated class. In PHP, the new OOP features in PHP 5...
Web Services
The Lofty, Vendor-agnostic Goals of the Simple Cloud API
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Cloud vendors including IBM, Microsoft and Rackspace got together last year to create a single API that would work with cloud services from multiple...