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In-experienced development = Bowl full of Soup
There are times when things become an uphill task all of a sudden. It happened to me in my last assignment. I was asked to take charge of an existing product. The product has been under ...

Lets Crunch big data
As developers our focus is on simpler, effective solutions and thus one of the most valued principle is “Keep it simple and stupid”. But with Hadoop map-reduce it was a bit hard ...

Using EasyMock or Mockito
I have been using EasyMock for most of time but recently I worked with a few people who were pretty much inclined to use Mockito. Not intending to use two frameworks for the same purpose ...

Web-service learnings with Apache CXF
In my last couple of projects I worked with web-services, creating them at some places and consuming them at others. I felt that the standard tasks like creating a client, creating ...

Use java.util.prefs.Preferences instead of java.util.Properties
A typical installer for an application needs to ask the user a couple of options and some of these are configuration questions e.g. the port on which the application should run, how ...


