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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…
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Software Development
Planning software development with a time machine
I have an amazing time machine that lets me think better about projects. This is part 3 in a series…
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Core Java
Design Patterns in the 21st Century: The Abstract Factory Pattern
This is part two of my talk, Design Patterns in the 21st Century. This pattern is used everywhere in Java…
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Enterprise Java
jOOQ Tuesdays: Vlad Mihalcea Gives Deep Insight into SQL and Hibernate
Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month…
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Enterprise Java
Spring From the Trenches: Returning Runtime Configuration as JSON
If we need to figure out the runtime configuration of a Spring web application that is deployed to a remote…
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Groovy
Short on Time? Switch to Groovy for Unit Testing
If you are a programming today, you have most likely heard of Unit Testing or of the Test-Driven Development process.…
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Software Development
KISS With Essential Complexity
Accidental complexity, in a broader sense, is the complexity that developers add to their code and that is not necessary…
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DevOps
Docker MySQL Persistence
One of the recipes in 9 Docker recipes for Java developers is using MySQL container with WildFly. Docker containers are ephemeral, and…
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Core Java
Interface Evolution With Default Methods – Part II: Interfaces
Default methods were introduced to enable interface evolution. If backwards compatibility is sacrosanct, this is limited to adding new methods…
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