Year: 2012
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Software Development
Approaches to XML – Part 2 – What about SAX?
Part 1 introduced the idea that there are different ways to approach XML parsing and highlighted the point that XML…
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Software Development
Approaches to XML – Part 3 – JAXB
If you remember from Part 1 and Part 2, I’m covering different approaches to parsing XML messages using the outrageously corny scenario…
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Software Development
Approaches to XML – Part 4 – XMLBeans
If you remember from Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, I’m covering different approaches to parsing XML messages using…
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Software Development
Confusion As A Usability Defect
As a software engineer, you should always be looking for the location of the next defect or at least clues…
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Enterprise Java
Extending JMeter with a WS-Trust/STS sampler
JMeter does not have any inbuilt support for WS-Security or WS-Trust and that made me develop this STS Sampler for…
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Enterprise Java
JSF Event-based communication: Old-school approach
Web applications written in JSF consist of beans which interact among each other. Communication between beans is one of the…
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DevOps
Monitoring Sucks. But Monitoring as Testing Sucks a Lot More
At Devopsdays I listened to a lot of smart people saying smart things. And to some people saying things that…
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Software Development
A necessary condition for hiring a new developer
Software developers often take part in the recruiting process. Determine whether a candidate is suitable for our team/company is a…
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Enterprise Java
Extending JMeter with a password digest generator
Recently I had to work on loading an OpenLDAP instance with 50,000 user records and carry on some stress testing.…
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