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Core Java
Guide to time and date in Java
Properly handling dates, time, time zones, daylight saving time, leap years and such has been my pet peeve for a…
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Groovy for Java Developers?! Meet Gradle, Grails and Spock
What are some of the most interesting Groovy use cases for Java developers? Although it’s been around for a while,…
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No downtime deployment using “Yet another” Cloud Foundry Gradle plugin
I have been trying my hand at writing a gradle plugin for deploying applications to Cloud Foundry and wrote about this plugin…
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Log4j 2.x XSD is Not Fully Descriptive
In the blog post JAXB and Log4j XML Configuration Files, I discussed “nuances and subtleties associated with using JAXB to…
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Writing Laws Is Quite Like Programming
In the past year I’ve taken the position of an adviser in the cabinet of a deputy prime minister and…
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Java on Steroids: 5 Super Useful JIT Optimization Techniques
Java developer? Optimize your production monitoring. See the source code, call stack, and variable state behind all logged errors, warnings,…
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[MEGA DEAL] Java Programming – the Master Course (85% off)
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Software development is upside down
In the software development world a number of common management maxims need to be reversed if one is to be…
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Configuring the Elastic Load Balancer of your Elastic Beanstalk application
In my previous post I showed how to run a Spring Boot application on AWS using AWS Elastic Beanstalk. In…
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