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Software Development
Outsourcing, Do It Right
Most of the times outsourcing is a nightmare. Companies outsource the activities that are not their core activity nevertheless needed…
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Agile
The Product Owner’s Checklist for the First Sprint
Summary Scrum is a popular agile framework for developing a product with the right features and the right technologies. Unfortunately,…
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Desktop Java
Sacrilege – a Custom SWT Scrollbar
SWT is a thin abstraction layer on top of native OS widgets. Which is a very good thing if you…
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Software Development
Goodbye, Dr. Dobb’s
Andrew Binstock‘s 16 December 2014 column Farewell, Dr. Dobb’s announces that the Dr. Dobb’s parent company is planning to “sunset”…
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Core Java
15 Tools Java Developers Should Use After a Major Release
The survival kit for new deployments: Tools for Java developers that frequently deploy code to production! Takipi detects all errors…
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DevOps
Create your own Docker image (Tech Tip #57)
Docker simplifies software delivery by making it easy to build and share images that contain your application’s entire environment, i.e.…
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Enterprise Java
Hazelcast member discovery using Curator and ZooKeeper
At one project I was setting up Hazelcast cluster in a private cloud. Within cluster all nodes must see each…
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Core Java
Testing JVM server-side JavaScript with Jasmine, Spock and Nashorn
JavaScript usage is not limited to client-side code in browser or NodeJS powered server-side code. Many JVM based projects are…
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Core Java
cjmx: A command-line version of JConsole
JConsole is a nice tool when it comes to monitoring a running Java application. But when it is not possible…
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