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Software Development
Structural contingency (part one)
Order, in mathematics, matters. Take two functions, f and g, and compose them, thus applying them to an argument as…
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Software Development
Three Reasons Why We Should Not Use Inheritance In Our Tests
When we write automated tests (either unit or integration tests) for our application, we should notice pretty soon that Many…
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Software Development
Introduction to Backbone.js
Introduction The web application development process has been evolving over the years. In the beginning web applications were just static…
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Software Development
Managers and Individual Contributors in Code
I’m lucky to work for a company that makes it possible to have a good technical career, so that I…
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Agile
Design Your Agile Project, Part 4
If you are thinking of agile as part of a program, each team has to have its own approach to…
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Software Development
The anatomy of Connection Pooling
Introduction All projects I’ve been working on have used database connection pooling and that’s for very good reasons. Sometimes we…
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Software Development
Reporting Metrics to Apache Kafka and Monitoring with Consumers
Apache Kafka has been used for some time now by organizations to consume not only all of the data within its…
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Groovy
Groovy 2.3 introduces traits
A few days ago the second beta of Groovy 2.3 got released. One of the major new Groovy 2.3 features…
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Core Java
Handy New Map Default Methods in JDK 8
The Map interface provides some handy new methods in JDK 8. Because the Map methods I cover in this post…
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