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Software Development
Mentorship in Software Craftsmanship
First, a little bit of background and metaphor In the medieval times, apprentices would work in workshops an would be…
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Agile
Agile Lifecycles for Geographically Distributed Teams
I’ve been working with geographically distributed and dispersed teams for the past couple of years. Some of them on quite…
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Software Development
A Tale of Two Cultures: Hackers and Enterprise Developers
Today I found myself thinking again of what I see as two distinct cultures in the development world: Hackers and…
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Core Java
Functional programming with Map and Fold in Java
In functional programming, Map and Fold are two extremely useful operators, and they belong to every functional language. If the…
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Agile
That’s Not Agile!
If you work with a bunch of agile minded developer’s, you often hear the phrase “That’s not Agile!” It’s quite…
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Enterprise Java
Why I will use Java EE instead of Spring in new Enterprise Java Projects in 2012
The question comes up often. It came up in my new project in November 2011, too. I will use Java…
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DevOps
Observations on Dev / Ops culture
I am and always will be a student of leadership & design. I like to see things work, but I…
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Enterprise Java
Adding Ehcache to Openxava application
Introduction This article shows how to quickly enable Ehcache on Openxava applications and thus improving performance. When viewing an entity…
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Software Development
A SMALL cross-section of BIG Data
Big data is a term applied to data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools…
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