Software Development
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Don’t Migrate to MariaDB just yet. MySQL is Back!
Now that I have your attention, I’d like to invite you to a critical review of where we’re at in…
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Development Overhead
What does a developer spend his time on? Writing code, debugging, thinking and communicating with colleagues (that includes meetings). Anything…
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Painless Access from Java to PL/SQL Procedures with jOOQ
PL/SQL is one of those things. Most people try to stay clear of it. Few people really love it. I…
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Pair Programming for Team Building
Extreme programming (XP) introduced most people to pair programming. The theory was that the sooner that code was reviewed, the…
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Have You Ever Wondered About the Difference Between NOT NULL and DEFAULT?
When writing DDL in SQL, you can specify a couple of constraints on columns, like NOT NULL or DEFAULT constraints.…
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Guess, don’t measure
I have lost count in how many occasions I have recommended to start all performance tuning activities by setting goals…
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Development Horror Story – Mail Bomb
Based on my session idea at JavaOne about things that went terrible wrong in our development careers, I thought about…
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Slides from Nuts and Bolts of WebSocket at #Devoxx 2014
Peter Moskovits from Kaazing (@peterm_kaazing) and I gave a university talk at Devoxx 2014 on Nuts and Bolts of WebSocket.…
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The State of REST
The S in REST stands for State. Unfortunately, state is an overloaded word. In this post I’ll discuss the two…
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