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Software Development
10 Productivity tips for software developers
After attending a few seminars on the topic of productivity and time management and reading a couple of books on…
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Core Java
Builder Pattern: Good for code, great for tests
I’ve found the builder design pattern occasionally useful in code, but frequently useful in tests. This article is a quick…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE 7 is final. Thoughts, Insights and further Pointers.
It took us a little less than three years to get the next Java EE version out the door. On…
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Enterprise Java
Mapping enums done right with @Convert in JPA 2.1
If you ever worked with Java enums in JPA you are definitely aware of their limitations and traps. Using enum…
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Agile
So, what’s in a story?
I don’t know about you, but I always feel a little nervous when it comes to writing Agile stories. I…
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Scala
Various ways to run Scala code
For running example in this tutorial, make sure that, you have latest Java distribution and Scala distribution installed on your machine…
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Enterprise Java
A good, lazy way to write tests
Testing. I’ve been thinking a lot about testing recently. As part of code reviews I’ve done for various projects, I’ve…
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Core Java
Java File Merging Goes Semantic
Talk to any programmer and ask him how a merge should be: “it should understand the code, parse it, and…
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Core Java
JVM Performance Magic Tricks
HotSpot, the JVM we all know and love, is the brain in which our Java and Scala juices flow. Over…
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