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Career
On Developer Hiring – The Elephant In The Room
The software industry is obsessed with hiring. Every week we get new articles on the topic on how to snag…
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DevOps
Set up Continuous Deployment to Amazon OpsWorks
This is a republished guest blog post by Edgars Lazdins. He is director at Novo IT – a Web Development…
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Agile
Communicate Through Stories Rather Than Tasks
Communicate Through Stories Rather Than Tasks Last time I talked about interfaces between pieces of code. Today I want to discuss…
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Core Java
My Favorite Books for Advanced Java Developers
The idea for my last blog post (my ten favorite online resources for advanced Java developers), was inspired by the…
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Core Java
How to kill Java with a Regular Expression
We recently stumbled upon a phenomen we absolutely weren’t aware of: You can kill any Java IDE and also any…
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Core Java
How to Speed Up Apache Xalan’s XPath Processor by Factor 10x
There has been a bit of an awkward bug in Apache Xalan for a while now, and that bug is…
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Scala
Scala Wonderland: All operations are method calls
I’ve started learning Scala two months ago and I can’t get back to Murakami’s 1Q84 so exciting it is. In…
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Core Java
Six Java features to stay away from
I have spent countless hours troubleshooting different applications. Via the experience I can draw a conclusion about several Java SE…
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Android Core
Adding Overlay Icons to ImageViews
While working on Serenity for Android, one of the many requests I received was to have a Watched Status indicator…
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