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Enterprise Java
Hadoop Hangover: Launch a hadoop cluster CDH4 using Apache Whirr
This post is about how-to launch a CDH4 MRv1 or CDH4 Yarn cluster on EC2 instances. It’s said that you…
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Enterprise Java
Pool of ssh connections using Apache KeyedObjectPool
I found the org.apache.commons.pool extremely useful and robust, but not well documented. So, I’ll try to help a bit here…
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Software Development
My favourite programming quotes
I find myself thinking about some of these quotes every now and then and I just wanted to share them…
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Software Development
How To Secure an Organization That Is Under Constant Attack
There have been many recent security incidents at well-respected organizations like the Federal Reserve, the US Energy Department, the New…
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Desktop Java
Hello GroovyFX
GroovyFX brings together two of my favorite things: Groovy and JavaFX. The main GroovyFX Project page describes GroovyFX as ‘[providing]…
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Groovy
Groovy and HTTP
This article originally appeared in the December 2012 issue of GroovyMag. Some different ways that Groovy makes interacting with the…
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Android Games
Android Game Development with libgdx – Animation, Part 2
This is the second part of the Building a Game with LibGdx series. Make sure you read the first part…
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Software Development
A down side of durable messaging
Overview Durable messaging can be very fast, as fast as non-durable messaging up to a point. Limitations of durable messaging…
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Software Development
Code and Code Reviews: What’s in a Name?
In a code review a developer needs to look at the code from two different perspectives: Correctness. Is the code…
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