IBM Developer Works Days 2012.
14 -15 Nov 2012

General Trends in Development

• The term “GUI” is promoted to “User Experience” !
• IDE’s and Technologies are trying to prove all the time that they are Agile oriented.
• Applications Should be seen as a Service not a product.
• Domain Specific Languages (DSL) are languages meant for non-developer application users to be able to perform activities on the system without developer involvement. I see it as one step forward from API’s but for users not developers. (just like how SQL was meant to be for databases).
• Mixed Environments , more that one technology (or programming language) in one application to provide a service.
• Mobile development is gaining ground and attention for accessing mobile B2C and B2B.
• Office-Automation using mobile applications for the corporate employees.
• BIG Data.
• There is still a lot of work for developers to do.

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Another name for it would be Counter class.

How many times you did this ?

int databaseUpdateCounter=0;
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     databaseUpdateCounter++;
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System.out.println( "databaseUpdateCounter"+ databaseUpdateCounter);

you only need to follow up on the count of a certain operation.

And then you needed to count something else, and kept on adding counterVariables ?!

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Some use Excel, Others simply use text files to keep track of their passwords, but I use keepass .

It is simply a vault for your logins and passwords which you can unlock with a single password. However I use it also for auto-piloting my login procedure.

keepass main window

The whole idea is not to have to use a pool of passwords for all systems and also to auto-start you log-in procedure and save waring off your precious fingers in typing useless usernames and passwords.

In this article I will show how to use keepass to auto-login to:

• Putty
• WinScp
• Toad
• SQLPLUS
• SiebelTools
• FieZilla

And from the examples above you would be able to use it with any command line tool as well.

You could also use it for keeping track of your web site usernames ,passwords and URL’s

It is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone.

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I had the privilege to attend JAZOON software development conference in Zurich. I heard a lot of buzzwords and  jargon there about the new technologies of the software development. from the group of seminars and keynotes there I generated a picture about the perfect Enterprise application in the future. In this article I try to paint this picture.

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Jazoon is an annual convention for java and software development in Zurich . I’m having the opportunity to attend it and I decided to blog about the experience.

Because of the overwhelming material I’m going to be writing only short notes and buzzwords (brain dumps). The intent is to mediate the buzzwords of today’s software development market.

Here is a brain dump of Day-3.

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