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Core Java
Top 10 Useful, Yet Paranoid Java Programming Techniques
After coding for a while (eek, almost 20 years or so in my case, time flies when you’re having fun),…
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Software Development
RAM is the new SSD
Your data fits in RAM. Yes, it does. Don’t believe it? Visit the hilarious yourdatafitsinram.com website. But there is an…
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Software Development
Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 4
This tutorial is starting to get interesting…. In this section we’ll go deep into animations, special effects, search styling and…
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DevOps
Deployment Management Tools: Chef vs. Puppet vs. Ansible vs. SaltStack vs. Fabric
What are the pros and cons of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and Fabric? Working in production today often means continuous deployments…
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Enterprise Java
It’s easy to document your Play Framework REST API with Swagger
This post originally ran on http://swagger.io (7/30/2015) I having been using Play Framework as a Java-based, lightning-fast REST backend framework…
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Software Development
Examples of caching backfiring on performance
In 2015 it should not surprise anyone that caching frequently used data is likely to improve the performance of the…
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Core Java
Are annotations bad?
I eased off into this topic with my principles on my post about Spring XML vs. Annotations that other day.…
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Core Java
From Imperative to Pure-Functional and Back Again: Monads vs. Scoped Continuations
This post accompanies this video and won’t make too much sense without it Last month I gave a talk at the…
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Enterprise Java
Installing PostgreSQL PL/Java as a PostgreSQL Extension
In 2011 I wrote a series of articles on PostgreSQL PL/Java. The basic information is still solid but there is…
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