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Agile
Estimating business value: adding Value poker and Dragons Den to the Agile toolkit
A common piece of advice heard in Agile circles is: “Prioritise by value. Do the highest value first.” Sound advice,…
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Core Java
Java performance tuning survey results (part IV)
This is the last post in series where we analyze the results of the Java Performance Tuning Survey we conducted…
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Enterprise Java
Quick Guide: Dissecting JBoss BPM Cross Process Communication
(Article guest authored together with Jey Paulraj, Senior Solution Architect at Red Hat in North America) The weeks tips &…
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Software Development
Mandrill: Email infrastructure from MailChimp
Mandrill is an email infrastructure service that started as an idea in 2010. That idea became reality in 2012, when…
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Software Development
R: Applying a function to every row of a data frame
In my continued exploration of London’s meetups I wanted to calculate the distance from meetup venues to a centre point…
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Software Development
Go for Java Programmers: Simple Types
Part of the Go for Java Programmers series Before we get into custom types, and Go’s version of object-orientation, let’s…
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Software Development
The “Uncanny Valley” of L3 Cache Contention
While preparing for my talk at QCon SF 2014, I wanted to investigate a theory around how micro-benchmarks are not…
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Software Development
Prototype Driven Development
When starting a new software project, the number of unknowns is huge. We have learned the hard way that one…
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Desktop Java
Deferred Fetching of Model Elements with JFace Viewers
Model elements displayed by Eclipse JFace Viewers sometimes take a considerable amount of time to load. Because of this the…
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