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Software Development
JavaScript Promises Are Cool
“And when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. Never.” ― Rapunzel Many languages have libraries of interesting…
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Core Java
The 10 Most Annoying Things Coming Back to Java After Some Days of Scala
So, I’m experimenting with Scala because I want to write a parser, and the Scala Parsers API seems like a…
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Career
The Experience Paradox–How to Get a Job Without Experience
One of the most difficult things about becoming a software developer, is the experience paradox of needing to have a…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate Statistics with Hawtio and Jolokia
A huge part of enterprise Java deals with data. Among all the different ways of working with data in enterprise…
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Enterprise Java
Deploying a Spring boot application to Cloud Foundry with Spring-Cloud
I have a small Spring boot based application that uses a Postgres database as a datastore. I wanted to document…
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Software Development
Test Attribute #7 – Footprint
When we talk footprint, we’re really talking about isolation. Isolation is key to trust. Wait, What? The “checking” part of…
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Enterprise Java
Tutorial – REST API design and implementation in Java with Jersey and Spring
Looking to REST in Java? Then you’ve come to the right place, because in the blog post I will present…
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Core Java
Why I distrust wildcards and why we need them anyway
In any programming language that combines subtype polymorphism (object orientation) with parametric polymorphism (generics), the question ofvariance arises. Suppose I have…
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Enterprise Java
HawtIO on JBoss Wildfly 8.1
HawtIO gives awesome eye candy to your JVM based middleware. It’s a unifying console for applications that would otherwise have…
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