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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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Desktop Java
Introduction by Example: JavaFX 8 Printing
I‘ve not blogged in awhile, and I miss sharing with others about all things JavaFX (My day job and family…
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Software Development
Two Types of Deployment for Subsystems
During development you sometimes have a part of the system that is rarely changed, requires a lot of resources, has…
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Software Development
Practical NoSQL experiences with Apache Cassandra
Most of the backend systems I’ve worked with over the years have employed relational database storage in some role. Despite…
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Software Development
Survivorship Bias and Product Development
A couple of months ago I came across an interesting article by the author of ‘You Are Not So Smart‘…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Data JPA Tutorial Part One: Configuration
Spring Data JPA is a project which aims both to simplify the creation of JPA based repositories and to reduce…
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Enterprise Java
Unit Testing of Spring MVC Controllers: “Normal” Controllers
The first part of this tutorial described how we can configure our unit tests which use the Spring MVC Test…
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Software Development
YAGNI likes a DRY KISS
There are several acronyms which would definitely help to review code and design, improve it or confirm discussed decisions, because…
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