Software Development
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Divided we Stand: Optional
Our recent article “NULL is Not The Billion Dollar Mistake. A Counter-Rant” got us a lot of reads, controversial comments,…
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Regarding team building and bonding – on developer teams
This is something I wanted to write for some months now, especially after my relocation to a new country and…
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Comments on The Twelve-Factor App
The Twelve-Factor App is a recent methodology (and/or a manifesto) for writing web applications that hopefully is getting quite popular.…
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Why You Should Encrypt ALL Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
Many critics have pointed out that Ashley Madison should have encrypted all personally identifiable information (PII). The database contained sensitive…
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jOOQ Tuesdays: Thomas Muller Unveils How HSQLDB Evolved into the Popular H2 Database
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month…
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Setting PostgreSQL psql Variable Based Upon Query Result
When using PostgreSQL‘s psql command-line tool to interact with a PostgreSQL database via operator interaction or script, it is not…
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Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 5
The chat UI is what we’ve been working at and in todays post we are going to build exactly that!…
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On programming in the summer
In the summer my training and consulting business gets quiet. That allows me to take some holiday and to pursue…
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Procedure-Like Functions in PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL
PostgreSQL does not support stored procedures in the sense that a database such as Oracle does, but it does support…
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