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Software Development
Principles for Creating Maintainable and Evolvable Tests
Having [automated] unit/integration/functional/… tests is great but it is too easy for them to become a hindrance, making any change…
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Best Of The Week
Best Of The Week – 2011 – W48
Hello guys, Time for the “Best Of The Week” links for the week that just passed. Here are some links…
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Enterprise Java
Creating Stubs for Legacy Code – Testing Techniques 6
Any one who reads this blog will probably have realised that at present I’m working on a project that contains…
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Software Development
The Three Ways to Work with Code
Obviously you read code more often than you write it. Nothing new here. This fact is brought up often when…
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Enterprise Java
From Spring to Java EE 6
I recently worked on a quite complex project mixing many Java EE 6 technologies (such as JPA, JAXB, JMS, JTA,…
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Core Java
Beneficial CountDownLatch and tricky java deadlock
Have you ever used java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch? It’s a very convenience class to achieve synchronization between two or more threads, where allows…
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Software Development
Big Company vs. Small Company
The other day I was having lunch with a friend of mine who works for a medium sized company (by…
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Software Development
The Default Use Case
You should have a default use case (or a small set of them). No matter what are you making –…
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Enterprise Java
Spring Pitfalls: Proxying
Being a Spring framework user and enthusiast for many years I came across several misunderstandings and problems with this stack.…
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