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Career
Does It Get Boring To Be A Programmer?
Programmers are people who create computer programs. (I’ll skip the discussion whether it should be “programmer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “coder” or…
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Software Development
Bcrypt, Salt. It’s The Bare Minimum.
The other day I read this Arstechnica article and realized how tragic the situation is. And it is not this…
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Enterprise Java
All That Cloud: Amazon, Google App Engine, Windows Azure, Heroku, Jelastic
You wanna be in the cloud? You have plenty of options. I’ve evaluated or used many of them, so here…
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Enterprise Java
Schema Creation Script With Hibernate 4, JPA And Maven
The scenario is trivial – you want to generate a database schema creation script while building your application (and then…
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Enterprise Java
Proof of Concept: Play! Framework
We are starting a new project and we have to choose the web framework. Our default choice is grails, because…
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Enterprise Java
ORM Haters Don’t Get It
I’ve seen tons of articles and comments (especially comments) that tell us how bad, crappy and wrong is the concept…
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Core Java
Runtime vs Compile-Time Classpath
This should really be a simple distinction, but I’ve been answering a slew of similar questions on Stackoverflow, and often…
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DevOps
Keep As Much Stuff As Possible In The Application Itself
There’s a lot of Ops work to every project. Setting up server machines, and clusters of them, managing the cloud…
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Software Development
Humour Time: Programming Puns
Though not strictly puns, I tried to make them sort-of funny: – What are you doing on this bench with…
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