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Career
Stop Crapping on Start-Ups
Michael O. Church recently wrote a thought provoking blog post, “Don’t Waste Your Time in Crappy Startup Jobs“, and the…
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Enterprise Java
Java talking to iOS: Java objects to Apple plist serialization
I am happy to announce my first open source project java-plist-serializer that can help you with integrating Java and especially…
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Software Development
IDE Project Files In Version Control – Yes or No? Of Course, Not!
Just recently I had some discussions with the clients who were claiming that they keep IDE project files in version…
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Enterprise Java
Schema Creation Script With Hibernate 4, JPA And Maven
The scenario is trivial – you want to generate a database schema creation script while building your application (and then…
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Software Development
Fixing a bug is like catching a fish
Manager: So, how long will it take to fix this bug? Inexperienced Programmer: An hour maybe? Two tops? I’ll get…
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Software Development
Characteristics of successful developers
Many blogs exist about personal (soft) characteristics of successful developers. Here is a short listing of some interesting links: 50…
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Software Development
Learning to Fail
Back at university, when I dealt with much low-level problem solving and very basic libraries and constructs, I learned to…
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Enterprise Java
Quartz 2 Scheduler example
Quartz is an open source job scheduling framework. It can be used to manage and schedule jobs in the application.…
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Enterprise Java
Smart Batching
How often have we all heard that “batching” will increase latency? As someone with a passion for low-latency systems this…
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