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Software Development
Best approach to software development
Today, talking about doing a big design up-front (BDUF) sounds a bit ridiculous, right? Who would do that? That’s not…
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Enterprise Java
JBoss BRMS Best Practices – tips for your BPM Process Initialization Layer
I have posted some articles in the past on migration strategies, taken closer looks at process layers and provided some…
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Software Development
What makes parallel programming hard?
Multi-cores are here, and they are here to stay. Industry trends show that each individual core is likely to become…
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Desktop Java
Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Command Line
I looked at a simple JavaFX version of the ubiquitous Hello World example from a NetBeans 7.1 beta perspective in…
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Communications
Telecommunications for Dummies – Telecom Basics and Introduction to BSS
Introduction This post is intended to be a crash course for beginners who wish to understand at a “broad level”…
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Groovy
FreeChart with Groovy and Apache POI
The point of this article is to show you how to parse data from an Excel spreadsheet that looks like…
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Enterprise Java
Spring @Configuration and FactoryBean
Consider a FactoryBean for defining a cache using a Spring configuration file: <cache:annotation-driven /> <context:component-scan base-package='org.bk.samples.cachexml'></context:component-scan> <bean id='cacheManager' class='org.springframework.cache.support.SimpleCacheManager'> <property…
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Software Development
Fixing Bugs that can’t be Reproduced
There are bugs that can’t be reproduced, or at least not easily: intermittent and transient errors; bugs that disappear when…
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Software Development
Enterprise SOAP Services in a Web 2.0 REST/JSON World
With the popularlity of JSON and other NoSQL data standard formats, the complexity and in some cases the plain verbosity…
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