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Android Core
Learning Android: Getting a service to communicate with an activity
In the app I’m working on I created a service which runs in the background away from the main UI…
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Enterprise Java
Introducing Deliberate Caching
A few weeks ago I attended a ThoughtWorks Technology Radar seminar. I worked at ThoughtWorks for years and think if…
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Core Java
Java 7: Project Coin in code examples
This blog introduces – by code examples – some new Java 7 features summarized under the term Project Coin. The…
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Core Java
Why I Like The Verbosity of Java
Java is too verbose, they say. You can find comparisons of Hello World programs that take 2 lines in ruby…
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Scala
Even simpler scalability with Akka through RegistryActor
Let’s imagine, your system is deployed on one node, where you running actors that literally draining out the resources. You…
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Enterprise Java
Play framework modules: Divide and conquer
It’s usually the case that you start developing an application and go on fulfilling requirements. When your application grows bigger…
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Software Development
Hints for writing secure code
Security and data protection are becoming now more and more popular topics. We are coming into the world where too…
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Software Development
Enough whitespace already
In most sensible languages the compiler ignores whitespace; it’s only there to help humans understand the code. The trouble is,…
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Core Java
Make your JAXB cleaner with the MOXy implementation
The principle advantage of using JAXB when marshalling and demarshalling XML is the programming model. Simply annotate a few POJOs…
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