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Programming antipatterns
Did you ever do a code review where you recorded an extremely high amount of WTF/m? And did you ever wonder what the cause of all this bad code is? Most of the time cause number ...

Sending emails with Java
I start writing this post as a simple “how to send an email” using Java, but later I found I need to briefly explain more things. So, here is this kind of all in one summary about ...

DI in Scala: Cake Pattern pros & cons
I’ve been looking at alternatives for java-style DI and DI containers which would use pure Scala; a promising candidate is the Cake Pattern (see my earlier blog post for information ...

Getters and Setters Are Not Evil
Every now and then some OOP purist comes and tells us that getters and setters are evil, because they break encapsulation. And you should never, ever use getters and setters because ...

Oracle WebLogic Java Cloud Service – Behind the scenes.
More on the Open World side of happenings one big and probably unexpected announcement was that Oracle is finally supporting the cloud movement and offering their own public cloud service. ...

If I had more time I would have written less code
In a a blatant rip-off of the T.S Eliot quote: “if I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter” I had a thought the other day, perhaps: If I had more time, I would have ...

Spring MVC Interceptors Example
I thought that it was time to take a look at Spring’s MVC interceptor mechanism, which has been around for a good number of years and is a really useful tool. A Spring Interceptor ...

Java EE Past, Present, & Cloud 7
One prominent topic of the recent JavaOne 2011 was the next major Java EE 7 release. As stated in the keynotes, the work on it is well underway. It will contain the 28 specifications ...

Java Twitter client with Twitter4j
Got inspired by my friend, who built his own Twitter client for his company’s client. So, I tried to build one using Java. And I’m surprised at how easy is to make a Twitter ...

Leaked: Oracle WebLogic Server 12g
JavaOne is nearly one week behind us already and I am still working on the detailed blog posts about it. One thing I was really surprised of is the fact, that I didn’t see a single ...




