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Enterprise Java
Collection creation and Immutability with Google Guava
So, thought I’d take a look at some of the collection creation patterns Guava offers, and also some of the…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE 6 Web Profile. On the cloud. Easy.
Java SE is ok. Java EE is evil. That’s what I always used to think. Well, not anymore, now. Let…
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Enterprise Java
Google Guava Multisets
Continuing this tour of Guava we get to the Multiset. I probably don’t use this as much as Multimaps or…
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Desktop Java
XAML or JavaFx?
This a quick, subjective, unauthorative and very non-scientific comparison of building applications with XAML and with JavaFx. The comparison is…
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Enterprise Java
Migrating a Large Project from Ant to Maven
The truth is we had been under difficult times. We spent almost three months to migrate our build mechanism from…
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Scala
FactoryPal: New Scala framework for creating objects as test data
FactoryPal is a scala framework that lets you create objects as test data. All you have to do is define…
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Enterprise Java
A Selenium/WebDriver example in Java
A couple of years back, I was pitching for some work and the client wanted to see how I would…
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Core Java
Local variables inside a loop and performance
Overview Sometimes a question comes up about how much work allocating a new local variable takes. My feeling has always…
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Core Java
Weak, Weaker, Weakest, Harnessing The Garbage Collector With Specialist References
When and when not to use specialist references in Java Weak, Soft and Phantom references are dangerous and powerful. If…
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