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Android Core
How To Read Your Passport With Android
As I’ve been researching machine readable travel documents, I decided to do a little proof-of-concept on reading ePassports using an…
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DevOps
Automated Docker Application Deployment On Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
DCHQ, a San Francisco-based startup delivering hybrid-cloud and enterprise application automation, is unveiling its support for Alibaba’s Cloud offering (Aliyun).…
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Software Development
SASI Empowering Secondary Indexes
Back in 2010, a new feature was introduced for Cassandra 0.7: Secondary Indexes. Unlike a relational database index, it is…
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Software Development
Problems in the internet of things
Having worked with connected vehicles for a number of years now, there are some things that it seems newcomers always…
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Enterprise Java
Enabling Entity and Query cache in Hibernate
1. Introduction Amongst the performance related tasks I have been through, this has been one of them. The concern is that if…
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Desktop Java
Shadow Fields vs. Property Accessor Interface Round 2
If you guys haven’t noticed a (light-hearted) showdown between Dirk Lemmerman and me, let me quickly mention how we got to this point.…
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Enterprise Java
Learning Lucene
I am currently working with a team starting a new project based on Lucene. While most of the time I…
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Desktop Java
Shadow Fields vs. Property Accessor Interface
Carl Dea recently followed up on a blog post of mine called Save Memory! Use Shadow Fields for Properties. In…
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Kotlin
10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language
This article is overdue. After the hype around the release of Kotlin 1.0 has settled, let’s have a serious look…
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