Author Archives: Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Globalcode’s Casual Class: Spring

Posted on 3 Mar 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Quick post: in this last Friday, February 26th, 2010, I attended the first Casual Class of the year, from Globalcode. The topic was the spring platform and, among the main subjects mentioned were Spring itself, Spring Roo, Spring and cloud … Continue reading →

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Testing XML data in your unit tests with XMLUnit

Posted on 23 Feb 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Once upon a time I had to compare two pieces of XML data. And it was good. Well, actually, it wasn’t. Comparing two sets of XML can be really tough. Initially, I considered doing so by hand. Bad, bad idea, … Continue reading →

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Iced Earth in Brazil

Posted on 8 Feb 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Hi everybody! This post is EXTREMELY off-topic and contains no technical information, so feel free to skip it – I just couldn’t help it but write this one! This last Saturday, February 6th, Iced Earth came to São Paulo – … Continue reading →

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Pair Programming as a Motivator

Posted on 5 Feb 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Everyone has ups and downs. Maybe a fight with a significant other, or a problem with family, it doesn’t matter, brought you down. I went through something in this line a while ago, although for a completely different reason. But … Continue reading →

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XML Handling in Scala

Posted on 20 Jan 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

It is finally time to get back to Scala. In this post, lets cover briefly some of the support Scala has for handling XML data. This is impressive stuff, and more so if you are used to how complex this … Continue reading →

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Program-ME Dojo Globalcode

Posted on 5 Jan 2010 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Quick post, to bring back some life to this blog =) About one month ago, on December 10th, Globalcode organized its first programming DOJO. The topic was Program-ME, Globalcode’s version of Arduino. The idea of a dojo is to try … Continue reading →

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Spring Roo: First Impressions

Posted on 21 Nov 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Two weeks ago I attended to the event The Developer’s Conference, down here in São Paulo, Brazil. I covered it here and here. One topic I decided to cover separated is Spring Roo. Rod Johnson, from SpringSource presented it in … Continue reading →

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Globalcode’s Bug Novo Video

Posted on 18 Nov 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

Just a quick update, while I finish the post about Spring Roo. Globalcode has finally published their “Bug Novo” video, which they had shown at the TDC event. Take a look here. It’s really worth watching, but its in portuguese … Continue reading →

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TDC – The Developers Conference 2009 – day 2

Posted on 12 Nov 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

In the last post, I talked about the first day of The Developers Conference. Now lets talk about day number 2. Very different from the previous day, this one started full of coding. And during the day, we kept seeing … Continue reading →

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TDC – The Developers Conference 2009 – day 1

Posted on 10 Nov 2009 by Paulo "JCranky" Siqueira

So, one more Java event happened this last weekend down here in Brazil. The Developers Conference, organized by Globalcode, took place on the 6th and 7th of November in São Paulo, and it is going also to Florianópolis (9th) and … Continue reading →

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