Software Development
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TDD Against the Clock
A couple of weeks ago I ran a “TDD Against the Clock” session. The format is simple: working in pairs…
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Even Doctors Will Be Data Scientists
We all know how it works. You walk into a doctor’s office complaining about some pain in your leg or…
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“NoSQL Injection” – What 40000 Unsecured MongoDB Databases Mean for our Industry
The news is all over reddit… Major security alert as 40,000 MongoDB databases left unsecured on the internet Security is…
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10 SQL Articles Everyone Must Read
We’ve been blogging about Java and SQL for a while now, on the jOOQ blog. Over the years, while researching…
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Hadoop and the OpenDataPlatform
Pivotal, IBM and Hortonworks announced today the “Open Data Platform” (ODP) – an attempt to standardize Hadoop. This move seems…
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XML Manipulation With XML Copy Editor
The XML document format, created in 1996, is still widely used to facilitate communication between disparate systems (though for certain…
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Five easy steps to improve your database performance
January 30, 2015: Based on reader feedback, section 4 “Do you have enough database connections?” has been revised. Database access…
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Refactoring to Allow Test Doubles
Sometimes, when you make a class, it directly instantiates an object to use in its methods. For example: …
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Do It Either Way, We’ll Refactor It Later
It often happens that a new piece of functionality is discussed within a team and different developers have a different…
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