Core Java
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Introducing “Yet another” Cloud foundry Gradle plugin
In the process of working on an automated Jenkins pipeline for deploying a Cloud Foundry application with two of my colleagues(Thanks Mark…
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Stackoverflow: 7 of the Best Java Answers That You Haven’t Seen
What are some of the most interesting answers you can find on Stackoverflow? Stackoverflow is a goldmine for developers. It…
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CQRS with Java and Lagom
I’ve had the pleasure to talk at the Chicago Java User Group and talk about how Lagom implements CQRS, the…
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Many parameters and lost information
The less code, the better? The fewer objects, the better? Is it true? As usual, it depends. There are cases…
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JUnit 5 – Dynamic Tests
When it came to defining tests, JUnit 4 had a tremendous weakness: It had to happen at compile time. Now,…
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Apache PDFBox Command-line Tools: No Java Coding Required
In the blog post Apache PDFBox 2, I demonstrated use of Apache PDFBox 2 as a library called from within…
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Tabs vs Spaces: How They Write Java at Google, Twitter, Mozilla and Pied Piper
What are the most interesting highlights in popular Java code styles? In spite of the suggestive image above, we don’t…
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Getting started with ANTLR: building a simple expression language
This post is the first one of a series. The goal of the series is to describe how to create a…
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Guavate: tiny library bridging Guava and Java8
Java8 is great and adds some useful abstractions to the JDK that have found popularity in the Java community via…
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