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Meta JCG
JCG Flashback – 2011 – W37
Hello guys, Time for another post in the JCG Flashback series. These posts will take you back in time and…
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Enterprise Java
Spring 3.1 Caching and @CacheEvict
My last blog demonstrated the application of Spring 3.1’s @Cacheable annotation that’s used to mark methods whose return values will be stored…
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Career
Does It Get Boring To Be A Programmer?
Programmers are people who create computer programs. (I’ll skip the discussion whether it should be “programmer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “coder” or…
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Core Java
Duck typing in Java ? Well, not exactly
According to Wikipedia duck typing is: style of dynamic typing in which an object’s methods and properties determine the valid…
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Enterprise Java
Apache Wicket: Remember Me functionality
It is quite common in web applications to have “Remember Me” functionality that allows user to be automatically logged in…
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Core Java
Building OpenJDK on Windows
Doing some experiments, I found that it often useful to have JDK source code available in hand to make some…
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Core Java
Java Annotations – Retention
Consider a Java annotation: public @interface AnAnnotaton { } A class with this annotation applied on it: @AnAnnotaton class AnAnnotatedClass{…
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Software Development
Can you get by without estimating? Should you try?
Estimating remains one of the hardest problems in software development. So hard in fact that more people lately are advocating…
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Software Development
BAM, SOA & Big Data
Leveraging Big Data has become a commodity for most IT departments. It’s like the mobile phone. You can’t remember the…
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