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Core Java
Reducing memory usage with String.intern()
Every now and then you have a dying production application at hand. And you know you need to patch it…
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Enterprise Java
Developing SOAP Web service using Apache CXF
In last post I walked through the steps for developing a simple RESTFull service using apache CXF. In this post…
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Enterprise Java
Making Sense Out of Datomic, The Revolutionary Non-NoSQL Database
I have finally managed to understand one of the most unusual databases of today, Datomic, and would like to share…
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Software Development
Introduction to Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing is a delivery of computing as a service rather than a product. I will come back to this…
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Enterprise Java
Distributed System Development Considerations
There are a number of factors to take into account while developing distributed software systems. If you don’t even know…
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Android Core
Add a sliding menu with animation to an Activity
I was playing around with animation, layers and so on and i have coded this simple sliding menu. The idea…
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Android Core
Android AsyncTask ListView – JSON
Many times we need to populate a Listview using an AsyncTask. This is the case when we have to invoke…
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Enterprise Java
Akka vs Storm
I was recently working a bit with Twitter’s Storm, and it got me wondering, how does it compare to another…
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Android Core
Android ListView Pull-to-Refresh
In this post I want to describe how to create a custom ListView widget that behaves like Gmail list, so…
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