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Software Development
Verifying Secure Password Storage Externally
Many websites (including big ones like Adobe, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Gawker, etc.) store user passwords insecurely. Either in plain text, or…
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Software Development
Software Version Controlling Best Practices
Always use version controlling Use version controlling/source control even if one developer exists. This issue brings change tracking and versioning…
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Core Java
Java 8: Lambda Expressions vs Auto Closeable
If you used earlier versions of Neo4j via its Java API with Java 6 you probably have code similar to…
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Core Java
An open source JVM Sampling Profiler
It’s a well known deficiency of most existing sampling Java profilers that their collection of stack traces has to happen…
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Agile
Cost of Delay Due to Other Teams’ Delay, Part 5
Imagine you have a large program, where you have several teams contributing to the success of one business deliverable. You…
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Enterprise Java
Lessons learned: ActiveMQ, Apache Camel and connection pooling
Every once in a while, I run into an interesting problem related to connections and pooling with ActiveMQ, and today…
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Core Java
Allocating memory for the JVM: a case study
This post is about a recent performance tuning exercise. As always, these start with vague statements about symptoms. This time…
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Core Java
Synthetic and bridge methods
If you have ever played with reflection and executed getDeclaredMethods() you may have been surprised. You may get methods that…
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Software Development
Caching best practices
Introduction There is an irresistible attraction to writing custom caching solutions, since it seems to be the easiest path to…
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