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Career
On Job Titles: Juniors, Roman Numerals, and the Elusive “Python Architect”
As I spent the last week of 2015 updating some database records on my candidate network, I began to notice…
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Enterprise Java
Wildfly Swarm, towards maturity and a small contribution
One of the projects I follow lately, is Wildfly Swarm. Eventually my request during this year’s Devoxx in the JBoss…
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Software Development
Microservices Use Cases
A few months ago I wrote a piece in defence of monoliths and then gave a talk about it. Overall,…
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Software Development
Example of using extensions in Swift
Recently I needed a image in my iOS app that was oscillating. I ran into an example of Swift code…
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Core Java
Use JUnit’s expected exceptions sparingly
Sometimes, when we get pull requests for jOOQ or our other libraries, people change the code in our unit tests…
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DevOps
Running Any Docker Image On OpenShift Origin
I’ve been using OpenShift since a while now. For many reasons. First of all, I don’t want to build my…
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Android Core
4 Free Weather Providers API To Develop A Weather App
Android apps that give weather information are common in play store. Moreover, Weather app and widgets are one of the…
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Software Development
Cutting Corners
The pressure to deliver yesterday is strong. If it’s not customers nagging you, it’s project managers breathing down your neck…
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Software Development
Clustering And Scaling Services
Many will tell you that they have a scalable system. After all, scaling is easy. Buy a server, install WebLogic…
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