Year: 2014
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Enterprise Java
Upgrading Spring 3.x and Hibernate 3.x to Spring Platform 1.0.1 (Spring + hibernate 4.x)
I recent volunteered to upgrade our newest project to the latest version of Spring Platform. What Spring Platform gives you…
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Software Development
The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy
There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call “Free” or “Standard” or “Open” software.…
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Agile
From Personas to User Stories
Summary User stories are a powerful technique to capture the product functionality from the perspective of a user or customer.…
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Agile
People Are Not Resources
My manager reviewed the org chart along with the budget. “I need to cut the budget. Which resources can we…
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Core Java
Java yield-like using Stream API
Several programming languages, such as Ruby or Python to name a few, provides the yield command. Yield provides an effective…
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Software Development
eclipse-pmd – New PMD plugin for Eclipse
I am Eclipse user. So when I wanted to analyze my code by PMD, I needed to use “PMD for…
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Career
How to Negotiate Your Salary
I’m often surprised how many software developers neglect to do any salary negotiations at all or make a single attempt…
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Software Development
It’s not NoSQL versus RDBMS, it’s ACID + foreign keys versus eventual consistency
The Background Coming from a diverse background and having dealt with a number of distributed systems, I routinely find myself…
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Agile
Hiring Trap: I’ll Wait for the Best Person
A senior product manager had a great interview the other day. “I know the industry. I worked on the first…
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