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Enterprise Java
Maven Build Number Plugin – Sample Usage
Suppose we need to add a build number to some artifact (jar, war, etc.). Here I’d like to demonstrate the…
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Groovy
JavaOne 2012: A Walk Through of Groovy’s AST Transformations
I made the very short walk from Hilton Plaza A/B back to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see the presentation…
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Software Development
Opinion: Performance Testing
Performance tuning an application is time consuming, and expensive. Useful tests often need dedicated hardware to run on. It’s specialised…
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Enterprise Java
Redis pub/sub using Spring
Continuing to discover the powerful set of Redis features, the one worth mentioning about is out of the box support…
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Scala
RateLimiter – discovering Google Guava
RateLimiter class was recently added to Guava libraries (since 13.0) and it is already among my favourite tools. Have a…
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Core Java
JavaOne 2012: The Road to Lambda
One of the presentations I most eagerly anticipated for JavaOne 2012 was Brian Goetz‘s ‘The Road to Lambda.’ The taste…
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Enterprise Java
Enhancing Spring Test Framework with beforeClass and afterClass setup
How to allow instance methods to run as JUnit BeforeClass behavior JUnit allows you to setup methods on the class…
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Enterprise Java
Spring 3.1: Caching and EhCache
If you look around the web for examples of using Spring 3.1’s built in caching then you’ll usually bump into…
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Core Java
JavaOne 2012: How Do Non-Blocking Data Structures Work?
I was a little surprised when I looked at my schedule for today and noted that all of the sessions…
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