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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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Enterprise Java
How to Integrate Commercial Third-Party Artefacts into Your Maven Build
According to a recent survey by ZeroTurnaround’s RebelLabs, Maven is still the leading Java build platform. The current market share…
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Ceylon
Useless lying version ranges
A frequent request from the Ceylon community is support for version ranges in expressing module dependencies. There’s no doubt that…
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Software Development
Why you want to give up coding
A background story A friend of mine worked as a Tech Lead, let’s call them Jo (not their real name)…
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Software Development
Static Typing Is Not for Type Checking
In his post “Strong typing vs strong testing” Bruce Eckel described the idea, that statically (or strongly) typed languages don’t…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE with NetBeans on OpenShift
Today was NetBeans Day in Munich. I had the pleasure to present one session about the integration of Red Hat’s…
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Agile
Who Removes Your Obstacles?
In self-organizing teams, teams remove their own obstacles. It’s a good idea. It can be difficult in practice. In Scrum,…
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Software Development
Unit test life?
You can not program without testing. You write unit tests first and then you write your code. (Well, I know…
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DevOps
DevOps Is The New Agile
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn argues that science is not a steady accumulation of facts and theories,…
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