Author Archives: Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

KeyStore Explorer and Digital Certificates

Posted on 22 Jun 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Ok, one more post aimed at my memory, but that can end up helping others as well 😉 I’ve been playing around with digital certificates in Java, because I’ll have to implement some stuff here that requires secure calls to … Continue reading →

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DSL in Scala for Date Calculation

Posted on 1 Jun 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

I’ve been attending a course about Java Architecture in Caelum these last weeks. In one of those Saturdays, the instructor mentioned a little bit about DSLs. Better yet, he gave us an example using Scala =) Now, the example was … Continue reading →

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Scala Problem Number Two

Posted on 21 May 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Following with my take on the Scala 99 Problems that I started here, lets talk a little bit about the second one. Here is the problem definition, from the original page: P02 (*) Find the last but one element of … Continue reading →

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Ninety-Nine Scala Problems

Posted on 16 May 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Listening to a few different podcasts (The Java Posse among them), I found out about Ninety-Nine Scala Problems. As the description on the site says, it is an adaptation of the original Ninety-Nine Prolog Problems. I find the idea very … Continue reading →

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TDD Talk at UMC

Posted on 14 May 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Yesterday I gave a speech, with two friends, about Test Driven Development at UMC, here in Mogi das Cruzes – SP – Brazil. The talk was nice, and this post is just to thank Claudinho and Fabio, the two friends … Continue reading →

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Motodev Summit Brasil 2010

Posted on 11 May 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

One more quick post about an event. This time, the Motodev Summit 2010, that happened this last Wednesday, May 5th, 2010. I don’t have too much to say about it; in summary, it was a lot more marketing from Motorola … Continue reading →

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Scala Pattern Matching: the reason to fall in love with Scala

Posted on 29 Apr 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Scala has a lot of interesting features and, among them, one of the most interesting ones is Pattern Matching. If you still need a reason to try Scala this is the one. Actually, I might be exaggerating a little bit, … Continue reading →

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Globalcode’s Casual Class: Digital TV

Posted on 24 Apr 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

I just came out from one more of the Globalcode‘s casual classes. The topic this time: Digital TV. It usually takes me a few days before I write something about an event I attended. Well, its time to change this. … Continue reading →

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GridGain first impressions

Posted on 19 Apr 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

I’ve been working on a peer-to-peer project for a while. We are trying to build something new and interesting regarding transactions on top of a peer-to-peer network. Hopefully it will be useful =P. I’m not going to talk about that … Continue reading →

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Dynamic namespaces with XSLT and Java

Posted on 27 Mar 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Recently I had to implement an XSLT transformation for a project here. It didn’t seem too complicated at first, since XSLT is not an alien technology – actually, it is pretty simple to use / develop with. The problem was … Continue reading →

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