Year: 2014
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Enterprise Java
Examining Red Hat JBoss BRMS deployment architectures for rules and events (part II)
(Article guest authored together with John Hurlocker, Senior Middleware Consultant at Red Hat in North America) In this weeks tips…
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Core Java
Introduction to writing custom collectors in Java 8
Java 8 introduced the concept of collectors. Most of the time we barely use factory methods from Collectors class, e.g. collect(toList()), toSet() or maybe something…
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Agile
Agile Myth #2: “Agile is About Project Management”
This is my third post on a multi-part series entitled, “Agile Myths and Misconceptions”. It’s based on the talk I gave…
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Software Development
Complexity is the Excuse
When I speak to people about how it is possible to continuously deliver customer value with near zero issues, I…
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Software Development
Writing Tests for Data Access Code – Green Build Is Not Good Enough
The first thing that we have to do before we can start writing integration tests for our data access code…
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Software Development
The 4 Levels of Freedom For Software Developers
For quite some time now I’ve been putting together, in my mind, what I think are the four distinct levels…
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Core Java
Creating Your Own Java Annotations
If you’ve been programming in Java and using any one of the popular frameworks like Spring and Hibernate, you should be very…
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Core Java
Converting JSON to XML to Java Objects using XStream
XStream library can be an effective tool for converting JSON to Java to XML translations to and fro. Lets explore…
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Agile
Agile Myth #1: “Agile is a Methodology”
First of all, if you look up the word “methodology” in the dictionary, it says, “study of methods”. When people…
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