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Software Development
From Legacy Code To Testable Code–Introduction
The word “legacy” has a lot of connotations. Mostly bad ones. We seem to forget that our beautiful code gets…
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Enterprise Java
Neo4j: COLLECTing multiple values
One of my favourite functions in Neo4j’s cypher query language is COLLECT which allows us to group items into an…
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Enterprise Java
Spring WebApplicationInitializer and ApplicationContextInitializer confusion
These are two concepts that I mix up occasionally – a WebApplicationInitializer and an ApplicationContextInitializer, and wanted to describe each…
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Enterprise Java
Exploring the SwitchYard 2.0.0.Alpha2 Quickstarts
In one of my last posts I explained how you get started with SwitchYard on WildFly 8.1. In the meantime…
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Software Development
Men in Tech
Background Between my partner and I, we have six daughters, and as they have grown I have thought more interested…
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Software Development
New programming techniques and the productivity curve
Though I love learning new programming techniques and technologies, I often struggle to make them a part of my normal…
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Software Development
Using Your RDBMS for Messaging is Totally OK
Controversial database topics are a guaranteed success on reddit, because everyone has an opinion on those topics. More importantly, many…
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Software Development
WORA Is Better Than Native
When “Write Once Run Anywhere” is done right it can produce applications that are “better” than native apps by targeting…
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Software Development
The fastest way of drawing UML class diagrams
A picture is worth a thousand words Understanding a software design proposal is so much easier once you can actually…
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