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Enterprise Java
Mocking with JodaTime’s DateTime and Google Guava’s Supplier
Introduction If you’re a seasoned unit tester, you’ve learned to take note when you see any code working with time,…
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Enterprise Java
Apache Hive on Windows in 6 easy steps
Note: You need to have cygwin installed to run this tutorial, as Hadoop (needed by Hive) needs cygwin to run…
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Android Core
Android: Finding the SD Card Path
Finding the SD Card path in Android is easy right? All you have to do is use Environment.getExternalStoreDirectory(), and you’re…
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Core Java
JavaOne 2012: Diagnosing Your Application on the JVM
It was worth attending Staffan Larsen‘s (Oracle Java Serviceability Architect) presentation ‘Diagnosing Your Application on the JVM‘ (Hilton Plaza A/B)…
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DevOps
Intro to Chef
Chef is an incredible tool, but despite its beginnings in 2008/2009 it still lacks an effective quick start, or even…
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Android Core
Android Tutorial: Enter the DROID World
Well quite frankly i’m late to the game, but here i am, getting my hands dirty(or wet or whatever you…
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Core Java
Warming Up Your JVM – Superfast Production Servers and IDEs
A couple of months ago I was reading up on Complex Event Processing in Java and ways to achieve low…
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Enterprise Java
JavaOne 2012: Up, Up, and Out: Scaling Software with Akka
After the late-ending Community Keynote, I headed to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see Viktor Klang‘s (Typesafe) ‘Up, Up and…
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Software Development
The Business Opportunity of the Decade
Peter Drucker, the famed management guru, frequently talks about risk (more specifically managing risk) in a business. Per usual, he…
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