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Career
Why You Didn’t Get the Job
Over the course of my career I have scheduled thousands of software engineering interviews with hundreds of hiring managers at…
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Enterprise Java
Resolve circular dependency in Spring Autowiring
I would consider this post as best practice for using Spring in enterprise application development. When writing enterprise web application…
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Enterprise Java
Extenders: Pattern or Anti-Pattern?
The extender pattern has become popular in recent years and has even been utilised in OSGi standards such as the…
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Enterprise Java
Hibernate Composite Ids with association mappings
Recently, We faced a tricky situation with hibernate association mapping with a composite id field. We needed to have bidirectional…
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Enterprise Java
Using Gradle to Bootstrap your Legacy Ant Builds
Gradle provides several different ways to leverage your existing investment in Ant, both in terms of accumulated knowledge and the…
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Enterprise Java
Hooking into the Jenkins (Hudson) API, Part 1
Which one – Hudson or Jenkins? Both. I started working on this little project a couple of months back using…
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Enterprise Java
Hooking into the Jenkins (Hudson) API, Part 2
This post continues from Part 1 of the tutorial. It’s been almost a year, but I finally had some time…
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Career
Learn A Different Language – Advice From A JUG Leader
The cry of “Java is Dead“? has been heard for many years now, yet Java still continues to be among…
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Software Development
10 Object Oriented Design principles for the Java programmer
Object Oriented Design Principles are core of OOPS programming but I have seen most of Java programmer chasing design patterns…
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