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Software Development
The Stigma of Tech Certifications (and their real value)
Every so often I will receive a résumé from a software engineer that includes a list of technical certifications. These…
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Software Development
A Bug is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Some development teams, especially Agile teams, don’t bother tracking bugs. Instead of using a bug tracking system, when testers find…
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Software Development
Bumping Into Manager Rules
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a…
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Core Java
How expensive is a method call in Java
We have all been there. Looking at the poorly designed code while listening to the author’s explanations about how one…
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Software Development
How To Remove Friction From Your Version Control Experience
Last week, I spend several days fixing a bug that only surfaced in a distributed environment.I felt pressure to fix…
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Career
Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – 2013-02
The winter edition of the job trends are back! Today, we are looking at traditional programming languages, which currently include…
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Core Java
Analysing a Java Core Dump
In this post, I will show you how you can debug a Java core file to see what caused your…
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Enterprise Java
Introduction to Collated Views with Couchbase 2.0
Most of the applications have to deal with ‘master/detail’ type of data: breweries and beer department and employees invoices and…
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Enterprise Java
JSF – Eager CDI beans
Everybody knows eager managed beans in JSF 2. @ManagedBean has an eager attribute. If eager=’true’ and the scope is application,…
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