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Software Development
Using the Raspberry Pi to program a Microchip PIC (PIC24) device via ICSP
Why would someone want to do that? Well, basically for two reasons. First, the classic: “this should be possible” –…
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Core Java
C code always runs way faster than Java, right? Wrong!
So we all know the prejudice that Java being interpreted is slow and that C being compiled and optimized runs…
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Software Development
Highlighting Checkstyle Links using Maven and IntelliJ IDEA
Although IntelliJ IDEA has en excellent Maven integration, it doesn not recognize file references or file links in the output…
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Core Java
Using Rhino with Java 8
Java brings Nashorn as new JavaScript implementation for JSR 223 (javax.scripting). While this is certainly great news (Nashorn is way…
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Core Java
JavaMail can be evil (and force you to restart your app server)
JavaMail always had an interesting approach when it comes to its configuration. Basically you have to fill an untyped map…
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Software Development
Version Numbering Scheme – Yet another approach
Version numbering schemes are probably one of the few things we software engineers have more than sort algorithms. However, there’s…
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Enterprise Java
Making HTTP content compression work in netty 4
Netty is really a great framework providing all the things needed to build a high performance HTTP server. The nice…
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Core Java
How to write one of the fastest expression evaluators in Java
Granted, the title is a bit of an attention grabber, but nevertheless true (You course you never trust a benchmark…
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Core Java
How to kill Java with a Regular Expression
We recently stumbled upon a phenomen we absolutely weren’t aware of: You can kill any Java IDE and also any…
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