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Software Development
The Real Cost of Change in Software Development
There are two widely opposed (and often misunderstood) positions on how expensive it can be to change or fix software…
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Scala
Scala Wonderland: Lists
In functional style methods should not have side effects. A consequence of this philosophy is that List is immutable in…
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Software Development
Why we dropped Eclipse in favour of IntelliJ
As a background – all of us in Plumbr have all been using Eclipse for as long as we can…
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Software Development
Why PostgreSQL is so Awesome
Just recently, I’ve blogged about PostgreSQL 9.3 having been released, which is awesome enough as PostgreSQL finally supports materialised views…
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Android Core
Detecting Television Feature on Android
I wrote up a post on google plus, that may be interested to a wider audience. If you are an…
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Clojure
Clojure: All things regex
I’ve been doing some scrapping of web pages recently using Clojure and Enlive and as part of that I’ve had…
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Software Development
From Top to Bottom – TDD for Web Applications
I am a “testing fanatic” but I don’t understand test-driven development. Or so I thought. I have read a few…
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Groovy
Grails Goodness: Accessing Resources with Resource and ResourceLocator
Grails uses Spring and we can piggyback on the Spring support for resource loading to find for examples files in…
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Core Java
Better JUnit-based Unit Tests with NetBeans 7.4 beta Hints
In my last post, I wrote about hints provided in NetBeans 7.4 beta that improve a developer’s ability to avoid…
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