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Software Development
Redundancy in Domain and Database Design
Introduction Design a domain can be a real challenge. A lot of bad practices can easily bring you to a…
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Software Development
Three Reasons Why Human Skills Are Important for Software Developers
It is easy to think that being a good software developer requires only technical skills. After all, software developers spend…
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Core Java
Hardware Transactional Memory in Java, or why synchronized will be cool again
Overview Hardware Transaction Memory has the potential to allow multiple threads to speculatively access the same data structure at the…
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Core Java
Java: Work out the serialVersionUID of a class
Earlier in the week I wanted to work out the serialVersionUID of a serializable class so that I could override…
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Enterprise Java
Java: Exception translation with AspectJ
Within this blog post I describe how you can use AspectJ to automatically translate one type of exception to another.…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate Facts: How to “assert” the SQL statement count
Introduction Hibernate simplifies CRUD operations, especially when dealing with entity graphs. But any abstraction has its price and Hibernate is…
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Software Development
Looking for your aaS? (IaaS vs. PaaS vs. SaaS vs. BaaS)
Our API is getting a lot of traction these days. We enable our customers to perform lookups against our masterfile…
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Software Development
The Single Responsibility Principle
Introduction In this post I would like to cover the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP). I think that this is the…
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Agile
If Managers Don’t Give Performance Reviews, What Happens?
There’s a great comment to my recent Management Myth: Performance Reviews Are Useful. The writer has these questions, which I…
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