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Agile
Who Do You Promote Into Management?
I vividly remember my first promotion into management. I was looking for a promotion to be a senior engineer. I…
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Enterprise Java
Chunk Oriented Processing in Spring Batch
Big Data Sets’ Processing is one of the most important problem in the software world. Spring Batch is a lightweight…
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Core Java
Java Object resurrection
Overview After an object which overrides finalize() is collected it is added to a finalization queue to be cleaned up…
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Software Development
Don’t take the Technical Debt Metaphor too far
Because “technical debt” has the word “debt” in it, many people have decided that it makes sense to think and…
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Core Java
Java – far sight look at JDK 8
The world is changing slowly but surely. After the changes that gave java a fresher look with JDK 7, the…
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Desktop Java
Generating Barcodes in PDFs with Flying-Saucer
Flying-Saucer is a nice library to generate PDF documents from within Java applications. Just generate a bunch of XHTML, throw…
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Desktop Java
Hand and Finger Detection using JavaCV
This post is part of a series on Natural User Interfaces (NUIs) published by Dr. Andrew Davison and deals with…
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Desktop Java
Multi-threading in Java Swing with SwingWorker
If you’re writing a desktop or Java Web Start program in Java using Swing, you might feel the need to…
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Core Java
Performance of inlined virtual method invocations in Java
Overview One of the benefits of dynamic compilation it the ability to support extensive method inlining on virtual method code.…
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