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Software Development
We Analyzed 60,678 Libraries on Github – Here are the Top 100
What are the top Java libraries used by some of the most popular projects on Github? Based on analyzing 60,678…
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Core Java
Design Patterns in the 21st Century: The Adapter Pattern
This is part three of my talk, Design Patterns in the 21st Century. The Adapter pattern bridges worlds. In one…
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Software Development
Backdoors, Sabotage or Just Plain Stupidity
Someone on your development team, or a contractor or a consultant, or one of your sys admins, or a bad…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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