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Software Development
The frustrations of the development
It’s busy period always before Christmas. Clients have ideas and request, we [at 2dwarfs] have started projects of our own,…
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Core Java
Increasing heap size – beware of the Cobra Effect
The term ‘Cobra effect’ stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British…
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Meta JCG
The Java Advent Calendar
The Java Advent Calendar is winter-festivities themed blog featuring (at least) one Java-related post per day between the 1st and…
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Core Java
How to Create Extensible Java Applications
Many applications benefit from being open to extension. This post describes two ways to implement such extensibility in Java. Extensible…
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Core Java
Of Hacking Enums and Modifying ‘final static’ Fields
In this newsletter, originally published in The Java Specialists’ Newsletter Issue 161 we examine how it is possible to create…
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Enterprise Java
Using Builder Pattern in JUnit tests
This is not intended to be a heavily technical post. The goal of this post is to give you some…
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Software Development
The feedback cycle and runtime governance
Introduction Runtime governance can be defined as the process which allows you to control and manage parameters in your runtime…
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Agile
The Wrong Notion of Time
No one wakes up in the morning and say “Today I’m gonna screw up. Today I’m gonna piss my boss…
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Core Java
Do you get Just-in-time compilation?
Remember the last time when you were laughed at by C-developers? That the Java is so slooooow that they would…
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