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Software Development
To SonarQube or not to SonarQube?
This is the first question that a team leader, s/w director, customer, developer, architect, tester or whatever role exists in…
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Enterprise Java
Creating contract-first web services with Spring WS
1 Introduction This article explains how to implement and test a SOAP web service using the Spring Web Services project.…
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Career
Building Your Personal Programmer Brand
Just because you’re a software developer doesn’t mean that you don’t have to worry about branding. In fact, if you…
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Core Java
Java 8: Compiling Lambda Expressions in The New Nashorn JS Engine
In a recent post I took a look at how Java 8 and Scala implemented Lambda expressions. As we know…
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Core Java
Serializing Java Objects with Non-Serializable Attributes
There are multiple reasons one might want to use custom serialization instead of relying on Java’s default serialization. One of…
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Software Development
Introduction to Gamification
You have probably heard about gamification before. It’s one of the hot topics. You see them in Stackoverflow and use…
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Core Java
Three Reasons Why I Like the Builder Pattern
There are three ways to create new objects in Java programming language: The telescoping constructor (anti)pattern The Javabeans pattern The…
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DevOps
5 most awesome desktop environments for Ubuntu
Are you using Ubuntu and bored of using Unity desktop all the time? Then, you should check out other options…
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Core Java
Testing for expected exceptions in JUnit
Unit tests are used to verify that a piece of code operates as the developer expects it to. Sometimes, that…
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