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Enterprise Java
Simulation of time consuming actions in integration tests
Quite recently in one of my projects I had a situation in which I needed to create an integration test…
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Software Development
The Art of War: How it Applies to Software
Sun Tzu wrote: War is of vital importance to the state; hence it is a subject of inquiry which can…
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Software Development
A Theorical Look into Object/Resource Pool Pattern
Definition: Sometimes our software projects need costly object creations (database connections, socket connections, large graphical objects etc.). This cost may…
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Software Development
How many classes and packages should you have?
Real world experience. Once upon a time there lived a family of programming bears. Each morning mammy bear, daddy bear…
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Enterprise Java
Spring AOP in security – controlling creation of UI components via aspects
The following post will show how in one of the projects that I took part in we used Spring’s AOP…
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Software Development
What is Big Data – Theory to Implementation
What is Big Data? You may ask; and more importantly why it is the latest trend in nearly every business…
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Enterprise Java
XStream – XStreamely easy way to work with XML data in Java
From time to time there is a moment when we have to deal with XML data. And most of the…
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DevOps
No downtime deploy with capistrano, Thin and nginx
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I’ve been working on a tutorial about thinking through problems in graphs…
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Enterprise Java
Fault Injection with Byteman and JUnit
The time when our applications lived in isolation have passed long-long ago. Nowadays applications are a very complicated beasts talking…
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