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Agile
Becoming a Leading Manager
My most recent post, We Cannot Choose Between Management And Leadership, has struck a chord. That’s the good news. The…
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Groovy
GitHub Social Graphs with Groovy and GraphViz
The Goal Using the GitHub API, Groovy and GraphViz to determine, interpret and render a graph of the relationships between…
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Core Java
A Birds’s Eye View of Maven
One of the things that we do on a daily basis is use Maven to build our projects by issuing…
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Software Development
Key Exchange Patterns with Web Services Security
When we have message level security with web services – how we achieve integrity and confidentiality is through keys. Keys…
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DevOps
Apache HTTP server with Tomcat on SSL
Introduction I recently needed to simulate our production deployment environment in my local machine. Our production applications are running on…
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Enterprise Java
Managing Jenkins job configurations
In JBoss Tools and Developer Studio, we manage a lot of build jobs in Jenkins. In fact, for the 3.2.x/4.x…
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DevOps
Why do we insist on consensus on the role of Ops?
I’ve seen so many threads over the last few weeks about who should do what, why, and what you should…
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Software Development
Extract, Inject, Kill: Breaking hierarchies – Part 2
In part one I explained the main idea behind this approach and I started this example. Please read part one before…
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Software Development
Extract, Inject, Kill: Breaking hierarchies – Part 1
Years ago, before I caught the TDD bug, I used to love the template method pattern. I really thought that…
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