Year: 2014
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Agile
Creating a Succession Plan for Your Technical Team
We often think about a succession plan for managers. But, if you’re not thinking about a succession plan for your…
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Software Development
Beating The ARC
For the uninitiated, ARC is Apple’s term for Automatic Reference Counting. Objective-C uses a reference counting scenario to collect objects…
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Software Development
The Caveats of Dual-Licensing
We’ve been in business for more than one year now with our dual-licensing strategy for jOOQ. While this strategy has…
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Software Development
20 (Or So) Things Managers Should Stop Saying To Engineers
This post is a direct reply to an article I recently read with title : “20 things engineers should stop…
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Groovy
Gradle Goodness: Running Groovy Scripts as Application
In a previous post we learned how to run a Java application in a Gradle project. The Java source file…
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Software Development
Don’t just randomize, truly randomize!
The state of web application cryptography has changed, and each development language provides its own way of working with it.…
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Software Development
Estimates or #NoEstimates? that is the question
To estimate or not to estimate, to join the #NoEstimates bang-wagon or not, that is the question. Maybe it is…
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Software Development
From Legacy Code To Testable Code–Introduction
The word “legacy” has a lot of connotations. Mostly bad ones. We seem to forget that our beautiful code gets…
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Enterprise Java
Neo4j: COLLECTing multiple values
One of my favourite functions in Neo4j’s cypher query language is COLLECT which allows us to group items into an…
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