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Why Developers Keep Making Bad Technology Choices
Today, software developers are faced with a great abundance of options when choosing how to design and implement systems. We are constantly bombarded with choice and are used to dealing ...
Common and Unique Elements In Multiple Collections
This week, we’ll take a break from higher level problems and technology posts to deal with just a little code problem that a lot of us have probably faced. It’s nothing fancy or ...
Problems with ORMs Part 2 – Queries
In my previous post on Object-Relational Mapping tools (ORMs), I discussed various issues that I’ve faced dealing with the common ORMs out there today, including Hibernate. This included ...
Morphia and MongoDB: Evolving Document Structures
In my previous post on Morphia, I went through some typical usages and mentioned some caveats and workarounds for known problems. I showed how easy it is to work with Morphia and how ...
Cloning of Serializable and Non-Serializable Java Objects
Frequently developers rely on 3d party libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel, particularly in the Java world, with projects like Apache and Spring so prevalent. When dealing with ...
Ignoring Self-Signed Certificates in Java
A problem that I’ve hit a few times in my career is that we sometimes want to allow self-signed certificates for development or testing purposes. A quick Google search shows the trouble ...
Java 7 Feature Overview
We discussed previously everything that didn’t make it into Java 7 and then reviewed the useful Fork/Join Framework that did make it in. Today’s post will take us through each of ...
Using MongoDB with Morphia
In the past few years, NoSQL databases like CouchDB, Cassandra and MongoDB have gained some popularity for applications that don’t require the semantics and overhead of running a ...
Testing GWT Apps with Selenium or WebDriver
Good functional testing is one of the most difficult tasks for web application developers and their teams. It is a challenge to develop tests that are cheap to maintain and yet provide ...
Swapping out Spring Bean Configuration at Runtime
Most Java developers these days deal with Spring on a regular basis and there are lots of us out there that have become familiar with its abilities as well as its limitations. I recently ...
