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I just came across this already very successful blog tonight and can’t get over the amount of great advice on it. (Not sure how I have not seen it before.)
I have gone to many seminars and read many books on being successful and one thing they all advice is talk to someone that has [...]

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I came across this handy web tool for converting image files into icons.  There are also tips for adding the icon to your website.  I gave it a go with my Passion Development logo and it worked great.

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There are often times when you need to call a method but you do not know the name of the method until runtime.  I came across this issue during my Thesis.    Our problem was as follows: How do we dynamically map between an object type and a method in the sub class of PublishableServer that [...]

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Ordering a list of Objects

This Java tip relates to functionality that has been around for quite a while but a lot of people are still not aware of it.
There are many occasions when you may need to order a list of data objects. Luckily the Java Collections Framework provides utilites to allow objects to be easily ordered.
The Comparable interface [...]

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Java List Tip

As I mentioned before, every Java programmer must own Effective Java by Joshua Bloch. Here is one of the tips from the book. It discusses is "Minimizing the scope of local variables" (Item 29). Part of this tip, that might be of interest to developers here is: Iteration of List's In his book, Bloch discusses [...]

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