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opencsv 2.0 released and mavenized (Sonatype totally rock!)

People who follow opencsv will find this hard to believe — but it actually happened! Thanks to a whole lot of work from Scott Conway, a whole slew of patches have been applied to opencsv 2.0 is out in the wild! Scott has fixed heaps of the outstanding issues, so if you’ve opened something, make sure you check back to see if it made it in (it probably did!). We’ll have some formal release...

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A first taste of Memcache

I’ve been wanting to have a look at memcached for a while. A lot of people swear by it for distributed caching, and it’s now part of Google App Engine’s infrastructure, so I figure it was worth taking a look what’s doable. If you’re coming from a Java background, you’re probably familiar with ehcache or some similar caching library – basically a key/value store...

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Maven is the new black: Canberra JUG Presentation, Wed Aug 12

If you’re around Canberra on Wednesday, August 12, make sure you drop by the Canberra Java User Group (CJUG) from 6PM where I’ll be giving a talk title “Maven is the new black”. Maven has really been gaining popularity lately in the Java ecosystem, so it’s a good chance to come along and hear what all the fuss is about. Maven is full of features, but often a little short on...