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Software Development
Git: Going back to a specific date time and retrospective tagging
I’m a fairly happy Git user :-) It’s and excellent product and a great improvement on CVS, SVN, SourceSafe, PVCS…
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Scala
Akka samples with scala and Spring
I was looking around recently for Akka samples with Spring and found a starter project which appeared to fit the…
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Enterprise Java
Do Not Make This Mistake When Developing an SPI
Most of your code is private, internal, proprietary, and will never be exposed to public. If that’s the case, you…
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Enterprise Java
Getting version string from a Maven based web application
When you package a maven project, it will automatically generate a pom.properties file inside that will contains the version, artifactId…
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Core Java
Quasar and Akka – a Comparison
The actor model is a design pattern for fault-tolerant and highly scalable systems. Actors are independent worker-modules that communicate with…
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Core Java
What is Garbage Collection?
The following is an example from our Garbage Collection Handbook which will be published in the forthcoming weeks. In the meanwhile, take…
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Career
How to Make More Money (and the plateau)
Most extended discussions about the technology industry and software engineering trade eventually find their way to the topics of worker supply and…
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Core Java
Constructors Must Be Code-Free
How much work should be done within a constructor? It seems reasonable to do some computations inside a constructor and…
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