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Software Development
Code For the User, Not for Yourself
First, no matter what the methodology is, we all write software for our users (a.k.a. customers, project sponsors, end users,…
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Core Java
Utility Classes Have Nothing to Do With Functional Programming
I was recently accused of being against functional programming because I call utility classes an anti-pattern. That’s absolutely wrong! Well,…
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Software Development
Interpret Page Fault Metrics
A page fault occurs when a program requests an address on a page that is not in the current set…
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Software Development
How to Extract a Date Part in SQL
The Modern SQL Twitter account (by Markus Winand) published a hint about how to extract a date part in SQL:…
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Groovy
GGTS: Clean up Grails 2.0 output
Have you ever had in Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) that console output, by a running Grails application, which is exactly…
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Software Development
Quick, Cheap, Quality: choose two
It is old and common wisdom. Even printed on billboard of the mechanics shop where my car is usually repaired.…
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DevOps
DevOps is not a Race
Most of what we read about or hear about in DevOps emphases speed. Continuous Deployment. Fast feedback. Fail fast, fail…
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Enterprise Java
Speeding up ActiveMQ persistent messaging performance by 25x
Apache ActiveMQ, JBoss A-MQ, and Red Hat Apache ActiveMQ is a very popular open-source messaging broker brought to you by…
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Core Java
Minor GC vs Major GC vs Full GC
While working with the GC pause detection functionality in Plumbr I was forced to work my way through loads of…
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