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Desktop Java
JavaFX Tip 13: Study Modena CSS File
This is the easiest and shortest tip so far. If you want to do any of the following things: learn how…
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Core Java
JUnit in a Nutshell: Test Structure
Despite the existence of books and articles about JUnit testing, I still meet quite often programmers, who at most have…
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Software Development
All You Ever Need to Know About Recursive SQL
Oracle SYNONYMs are a great feature. You can implement all sorts of backwards-compatibility tweaks simply by creating SYNONYMs in your…
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Enterprise Java
Validation groups in Spring MVC
Validation constraints in Bean Validation may be added to one or more groups via groups attribute. This allows you to…
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Enterprise Java
Upgrading Spring 3.x and Hibernate 3.x to Spring Platform 1.0.1 (Spring + hibernate 4.x)
I recent volunteered to upgrade our newest project to the latest version of Spring Platform. What Spring Platform gives you…
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Software Development
The “Free”, “Standard”, “Open” Software Heresy
There are those people that have a strong, dogmatic belief in what they call “Free” or “Standard” or “Open” software.…
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Agile
From Personas to User Stories
Summary User stories are a powerful technique to capture the product functionality from the perspective of a user or customer.…
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Agile
People Are Not Resources
My manager reviewed the org chart along with the budget. “I need to cut the budget. Which resources can we…
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Core Java
Java yield-like using Stream API
Several programming languages, such as Ruby or Python to name a few, provides the yield command. Yield provides an effective…
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