-
Career
What Programming Language Should I Learn?
Several times a week I am asked by a contact/reader/someone on Reddit for advice on what they should learn next. The…
Read More » -
Software Development
What’s the strangest bug you’ve squashed?
As software engineers we’re tasked with creating solutions to customer’s business problems. Being complex systems, every once in a while…
Read More » -
Groovy
Grails Goodness: Add Banner to Grails Application
Grails 3 is based on Spring Boot. This means we get a lot of the functionality of Spring Boot into…
Read More » -
Enterprise Java
Spicy Spring : Dynamically create your own BeanDefinition
When we a have Spring managed application, we want to let Spring manage all of our beans. Beside the regular…
Read More » -
Enterprise Java
Configure a Spring JMS application with Spring Boot and annotation support
1. Introduction In previous posts we learned how to configure a project using Spring JMS. If you check the article…
Read More » -
Software Development
Tuning Hadoop & Cassandra : Beware of vNodes, Splits and Pages
When running Hadoop jobs against Cassandra, you will want to be careful about a few parameters. Specifically, pay special attention…
Read More » -
Enterprise Java
How JPA 2.1 has become the new EJB 2.0
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. So does “ease”: Learn more about SQL Result Set Mappings and handle…
Read More » -
Groovy
Geb Gems: Running Geb Spock tests with Maven
Geb is framework which makes it easy to create functional tests for your application. Since you can use Groovy, Spock and…
Read More » -
Scala
Spark: Generating CSV files to import into Neo4j
About a year ago Ian pointed me at a Chicago Crime data set which seemed like a good fit for…
Read More »
