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Software Development
Conway’s Game of Life and the Flyweight Pattern
Conway’s Game of Life is fascinating, both from a functional and from a technical perspective. This may explain why it’s…
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Core Java
Coloring Different Data Sources in IntelliJ IDEA
The database plugin in IntelliJ IDEA is a useful tool to work with data in databases. As long as we…
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Core Java
Maven and Java multi-version modules
Introduction Usually, a project has a minimum Java version requirement and that applies to all of its modules. But every…
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Core Java
New BigInteger Methods in Java 8
Attention to new features in JDK 8 has rightfully been largely focused on new language features and syntax. However, there…
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Groovy
The Grails depedency injection inheritance pitfall
This blog post is about a small pitfall you should be aware of when combining dependency injection in Grails with…
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Core Java
How to add an IntelliJ project to GitHub
Although the GitHub docs contains good info on how to add an existing GitHub project to your local machine, how…
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Software Development
Apache Hadoop 2.4.0
The Apache community has voted to release Apache Hadoop 2.4.0, so the new release is now available and consists of…
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Enterprise Java
Circuit Breaker Pattern in Apache Camel
Camel is very often used in distributed environments for accessing remote resources. Remote services may fail for various reasons and…
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Core Java
10 Books Every Java Developer Should Read
I have read my share of software development books and I have noticed that it is very rare to find…
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