Year: 2012
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Scala
A crash course in Scala types
After many years of Java development, discovering Scala’s type system and related features was something of a departure for me.…
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Enterprise Java
XML unmarshalling benchmark: JAXB vs STax vs Woodstox
Introduction Towards the end of last week I started thinking how to deal with large amounts of XML data in…
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Agile
The pursuit of protection: How much testing is “enough”?
I’m definitely not a testing expert. I’m a manager who wants to know when the software that we are building…
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Software Development
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 1
Almost every manager I know wants to know when a project will be done. Some managers decree when a project…
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Software Development
Estimating the Unknown: Dates or Budgets, Part 2
In Part 1, you had some knowledge of the team’s velocity. This is the option of when you do not…
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Enterprise Java
Processing 10 million messages with Akka
Akka Actors promise concurrency. What better way to simulate that and see if how much time it takes to process…
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Core Java
Functional style in Java with predicates – Part 2
In the first part of this article we introduced predicates, which bring some of the benefits of functional programming to…
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Core Java
Functional style in Java with predicates – Part 1
You keep hearing about functional programming that is going to take over the world, and you are still stuck to…
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Enterprise Java
Apache JMeter: Load Test Whatever You Want
This is the second post about load testing with Apache JMeter, read the first post here: A step by step…
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