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Software Development
Does Defensive Programming Deserve Such a Bad Name?
The other day I went to an hour’s talk on erlang, merely as an observer; I know nothing about erlang…
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Core Java
Bending NetBeans Code Templates to My Will
Anyone who has read any of my posts on NetBeans knows that there are numerous features of NetBeans that I…
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Enterprise Java
JMS and Spring: Small Things Sometimes Matter
JmsTemplate and DefaultMessageListenerContainer are Spring helpers for accessing JMS compatible MOM. Their main goal is to form a layer above…
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Enterprise Java
JPA: Determining the Owning Side of a Relationship
When using the Java Persistence API (JPA) it is often necessary to create relationships between two entities. These relationships are…
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Enterprise Java
How to Install Gradle
Gradle is a dependency management / build tool that combines the best of Maven and Ant, making it an extremely…
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Groovy
Grails Design Best Practices
Grails is designed to be an interactive agile based rapid development framework which advocates convention not configuration. This article explained…
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Software Development
Penetration Testing Shouldn’t be a Waste of Time
In a recent post on “Debunking Myths: Penetration Testing is a Waste of Time”, Rohit Sethi looks at some of…
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Android Core
Android Tutorial: Using the ViewPager
Currently, one of the most popular Widgets in the Android library is the ViewPager. It’s implemented in several of the…
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Software Development
The three greatest paragraphs ever written on encapsulation
Definition. Encapsulation isn’t sexy. It’s the chartered accounting of software design. Functional Java programming? Formula freakin’ one. Hybrid cloud computing?…
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