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Software Development
How do I make testing faster?
Earlier this week I was the guest of a large bank in the City, OK Canary Wharf actually. They had…
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Career
So You Want to Use a Recruiter Part III – Warnings
This is the final installment in a three-part series to inform job seekers about working with a recruiter. Part I was “Recruit…
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Enterprise Java
How to use Salesforce REST API with your JavaServer Pages
Abstract: This tutorial gives an example of a JSP and how to integrate it with the Salesforce REST API. We…
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Software Development
Benchmarking SQS
SQS, Simple Message Queue, is a message-queue-as-a-service offering from Amazon Web Services. It supports only a handful of messaging operations,…
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Software Development
Open Source Projects – Between accepting and rejecting pull request
Lately I have done a lot of work for the sbt-native-packager project. Being a commiter comes with a lot of…
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Career
So You Want to Use a Recruiter Part II – Establishing Boundaries
This is the second in a three-part series to inform job seekers about working with a recruiter. Part I was “Recruit Your Recruiter”…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE Pitfalls #1: Ignore the default lock of a @Singleton
EJB Singleton Beans were introduced by the EJB 3.1 specification and are often used to store cached data. This means,…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE 8 – Deliver More Apps to More Devices
If there’s one thing I dislike about summer, it is the fact that there isn’t much news to share or…
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Career
How to Handle Incompetence?
We’ve all had incompetent colleagues. People that tend to write bad code, make bad decisions or just can’t understand some…
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