Year: 2014
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Core Java
How much faster is Java 8?
Java SE 8 was released yesterday. Traditionally, every new major JRE version comes with a free performance boost. Do we…
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Core Java
Constructor/Method Parameters Metadata Available Via Reflection in JDK 8
One of the lesser advertised new features of JDK 8 is the optional ability to include parameter metadata in compiled…
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Software Development
HTML5: Offline upload of images
I am currently working on an application which has needs to work offline. This has the beneficial side effect, we…
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Software Development
Building a nirvana
What started out three years ago as in a form of a single ANT file has grown into literally a…
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Groovy
Groovy Goodness: Closure as Writable
In a previous post we learned about the Writable interface and how the GString implementation implements this interface. In Groovy…
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Software Development
The Cost of Context Switching
I have always thought that I am good at multitasking. That is why I believed that I don’t have to…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Boot 1.0 followed by Spring Boot 1.0.1 bug fix release
Spring Boot 1.0 release was recently announced by the Spring Boot team, and was followed by Spring Boot 1.0.1.RELEASE, a…
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Software Development
The Prototype of Future Knowledge Workers
The following is an except from my 2008 book “Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile”. I’ve been thinking about…
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Agile
Scrum Masters: What Makes a Good One?
Yes, that’s right. I am writing a blog post today about Scrum and Scrum Masters. No, I haven’t lost my…
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