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Career
Why Your Resume is 10 Pages
Even though there are hundreds of articles professing the beauty and efficiency of the one page résumé, not a day…
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Enterprise Java
RESTful Web Services with Java
REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer, was first introduced by Roy Fielding in his thesis “Architectural Styles and the Design…
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Software Development
Supply & Demand in software development
(Whoops, I’m publishing a revision of this blog entry – something I don’t normally do. I realised after publication that…
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Core Java
Throttling Task Submission with a BlockingExecutor
The JDK’s java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor allows you to submit tasks to a thread pool and uses a BlockingQueue to hold submitted tasks.…
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Software Development
The future may just as well be RESTful
Chris Zheng has just published an article on “Why the future is NOT RESTful”. It made a bit of a…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate Facts: Knowing flush operations order matters
Hibernate shifts the developer mindset from thinking SQL into thinking object state transitions. According to Hibernate Docs entity may be…
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Software Development
The Code That Made me Cry
A friend of mine recently told me about the kind of problems he’s currently struggling with in the legacy application…
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Software Development
MongoDB optimistic locking
When moving from JPA to MongoDb you start to realize how many JPA features you’ve previously taken for granted. JPA…
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Core Java
Would you dare to change HashMap implementation?
There are bold engineers working for the Oracle nowadays. I came to this conclusion when trying to nail down a…
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