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Software Development
We Should Not Make (or Enforce) Decisions We Cannot Justify
Software development is a strange industry. New technologies emerge in a fast pace and old technologies become obsolete. The ability…
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Software Development
Why Write Requirements
There is a lot of advice out there for how to write requirements. There is not as much discussion about…
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Android Core
Android Actionbar Drop Down navigation
ActionBar supports different navigation types within activities. We saw in an older post that we can use Tabs to navigate or…
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Enterprise Java
Getting Started With Spring’s MVC Test Framework – Part 2
The first blog in this mini-series introduced the Spring MVC Test Framework and demonstrated its use in unit testing Spring MVC…
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Enterprise Java
JPA 2 | Fetch Joins and whether we should use them
Introduction Recently I have been working with FETCH JOINS in JPA 2 to fetch the data eagerly from the Database…
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Core Java
Java Garbage Collection Distilled
Serial, Parallel, Concurrent, CMS, G1, Young Gen, New Gen, Old Gen, Perm Gen, Eden, Tenured, Survivor Spaces, Safepoints, and the…
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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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