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Scala
Mahout and Scalding for poker collusion detection
When I’ve been reading a very bright book on Mahout, Mahout In Action (which is a great hands-in intro to…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate caches basics
Recently I have experimented with hibernate cache. In this post I would like share my experience and point out some…
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Core Java
Java threads: How many should I create
Introduction “How many threads should I create?”. Many years before one of my friends asked me the question, then I…
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Career
How Employers Measure Passion in Software Engineering Candidates
Over the past few months I have had some exchanges with small company executives and hiring managers which have opened…
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Enterprise Java
Spring JDBC Database connection pool setup
Setting up JDBC Database Connection Pool in Spring framework is easy for any Java application, just matter of changing few…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Profiles in XML Config Files
My last blog was very simple as it covered my painless upgrade from Spring 3.0.x to Spring 3.1.x and I…
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Enterprise Java
8 Ways to improve your Java EE Production Support skills
Everybody involved in Java EE production support know this job can be difficult; 7/24 pager support, multiple incidents and bug…
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Core Java
I/O Demystified
With all the hype on highly scalable server design and the rage behind nodejs I have been meaning to do some…
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Career
Why You Didn’t Get the Interview
After reading the tremendous response to Why You Didn’t Get the Job (a sincere thanks to those that read and…
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