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Groovy
Enhanced Groovy-based JAR/Manifest Diff Tool
This brief blog post provides another Groovy script that provides simple differencing of two JAR (or WAR or EAR) files…
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Enterprise Java
Spring @Bean and PropertyPlaceHolderConfigurer
I was recently stumped by what I thought was going to be a fairly straightforward implementation – Consider the following…
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Scala
Fake system clock pattern in Scala with implicit parameters
Fake system clock is a design pattern addressing testability issues of programs heavily relying on system time. If business logic…
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DevOps
MongoDB Pro Tip: Field Projections
Did you ever learn that select * from table in RDBMS-land is bad? Of course, you did! If you’re only…
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DevOps
MongoDB Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo
Mongo: noun (pl mongo or mongos) – a monetary unit of Mongolia. Equal to one hundredth of a tugrik. Origin…
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Core Java
Java’s Reflection API
If you have ever asked yourself questions like these: – “How do I invoke a method, having only it’s name…
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Android Core
Android Studio with android alternative emulator:Genymotion
Moving from Eclispe/ADT to Android Studio I was exploring some alternative configuration to improve my building environment. I came across…
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Core Java
Java 7 try-with-resources
Java 7 provides better resource management for resources that need to be closed when finished working with, for example files,…
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Career
Why You Didn’t Get The Interview, Part II
In August 2012 I published a blog post Why You Didn’t Get The Interview, which received a good bit of…
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