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Software Development
SQL or NOSQL: That is the question?
So what’s the deal with NoSQL? Is NoSQL just a controversial buzzword? Could you imagine if the term ‘Object Oriented’…
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Android Games
Android Game Development – Switching from Canvas to OpenGL ES
It is about time we delve into the graphical capabilities of the Android platform. Android supports the OpenGL ES API.…
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Software Development
Open Source Java Libraries and Frameworks – Benefits and Dangers
Everyone in the Java world seems to use various open source libraries and frameworks… and why not, there are hundreds…
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Scala
Scala Tutorial – conditional execution with if-else blocks and matching
Preface This is part 3 of tutorials for first-time programmers getting into Scala. Other posts are on this blog, and…
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Core Java
Use java.util.prefs.Preferences instead of java.util.Properties
A typical installer for an application needs to ask the user a couple of options and some of these are…
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Software Development
GPGPU Java Programming
In one of our previous posts we discussed the General Processing on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) concepts and architecture. For…
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Core Java
Java Micro-Benchmarking: How to write correct benchmarks
Several months ago, I wrote an article to compare the performances of short indexes for loops. I asked myself of…
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Scala
Scala Tutorial – Tuples, Lists, methods on Lists and Strings
Preface This is the second in a planned series of tutorials on programming in Scala for first-time programmers, with specific…
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Enterprise Java
JBoss Modules Example – Modular Web Application
Recently I read Why there is no standard for developing real modular web applications? by Patroklos Papapetrou (also featured in…
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