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Spring & Hessian, how cool!

I’ve tried today to expose some of our services in our application service layer.
All those classes are simple POJOs, autowired with Spring.
I’ve chosen Hessian for few reasons:

I never liked xml, soap, etc…
we need web services over http (so no RMI)
it’s very fast
we might need different type of clients connecting to the application (Hessian apparently supports [...]

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A cool guy, a cool software: Balsamiq application mockups

Balsamiq mockups is a cool application to quickly, easily write applications mockups and share them on the web, some benefits taken from its website: 

Improve your Usability
Explore Different Designs in Minutes
Get to Agreement Early with a tool everyone can use
Cut down spec-writing time
Spend your time coding, not churning
Use it with your clients, Letting them help you bring their [...]

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Waffles are good, do you fancy a Waffle?

During ThoughtWorks University XI we took the decision to introduce to the trainees Waffle as an example of MVC framework. 
I’ve been impressed by the simplicity of the framework. It has been a while since the last time I’ve played with any Java Web Framework ( I think it was around 6 years ago the last [...]

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