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Google Guava – Synchronization with Monitor
The Google Guava project is a collection of libraries that every Java developer should become familiar with. The Guava libraries cover I/O, collections, string manipulation, and concurrency ...
Testing Hadoop Programs with MRUnit
This post will take a slight detour from implementing the patterns found in Data-Intensive Processing with MapReduce to discuss something equally important, testing. I was inspired ...
MapReduce: Working Through Data-Intensive Text Processing – Local Aggregation Part II
This post continues with the series on implementing algorithms found in the Data Intensive Processing with MapReduce book. Part one can be found here. In the previous post, we discussed ...
MapReduce: Working Through Data-Intensive Text Processing
It has been a while since I last posted, as I’ve been busy with some of the classes offered by Coursera. There are some very interesting offerings and is worth a look. Some time ago, ...
Java 7: WatchService
Of all the new features in Java 7, one of the more interesting is the WatchService, adding the capability to watch a directory for changes. The WatchService maps directly to the native ...
Java 7: Copy and Move Files and Directories
This post is a continuation of my series on the Java 7 java.nio.file package, this time covering the copying and moving of files and complete directory trees. If you have ever been ...
Java 7 – The NIO File Revolution
Java 7 (“Project Coin”) has been out since July of last year. The additions with this release are useful, for example Try with resources – having closable resources handled automatically ...
Android Drag and Drop Tutorial
This post is going to cover implementing Drag and Drop in an Android application. (I am currently using version 4.0 of the sdk, but I originally wrote the code in this series with the ...
