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DevOps
Provisioning Ubuntu With Java in 3 Steps
As I’ve written about before, Vagrant is handy tool for creating localized VMs. It’s a lot like firing up EC2…
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Groovy
Grails Goodness: Generating Raw Output with Raw Codec
Since Grails 2.3 all ${} expression output is automatically escaped on GSPs. This is very useful, because user input is…
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Software Development
The narrow path between best practices and over-engineering
A couple of days ago I read a post by Petri Kainulainen about The Dark Side of Best Practices. He…
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Enterprise Java
MongoDB: GridFS remove method deletes all files in bucket
Some time ago we ran into strange behaviour of MongoDB’s GridFS which caused me creating a Bug Ticket for the…
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Enterprise Java
Strategy Pattern ain’t meant for Spring!
Right, so lets say you’re writing a Spring MVC app and you decide, “I want to do seperate encapsulated algorithms…
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Agile
21 signs of BAD MANAGERS I met in my career as a software manager
21 signs of BAD MANAGERS I met in my career as a software manager: Bias against action or against planning,…
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Enterprise Java
Thymeleaf template layouts in Spring MVC application with no extensions
After some years with JSP/JSTL and Apache Tiles I started discovering Thymeleaf for my Spring MVC applications. Thymeleaf is a…
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Core Java
Analyze package dependencies with structure101
One key to a stable application is a well-structured codebase. We know that we should build as many black boxes…
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Core Java
Native Java Packaging with NetBeans 7.4
One of the new features of NetBeans 7.4 that made the “NetBeans 74 NewAndNoteworthy” page is “Native Packaging,” which is…
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