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The Stigma of Tech Certifications (and their real value)
Every so often I will receive a résumé from a software engineer that includes a list of technical certifications. These days most candidates tend to have none listed, but over the ...

A Bug is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Some development teams, especially Agile teams, don’t bother tracking bugs. Instead of using a bug tracking system, when testers find a bug, they talk to the developer and get it ...

Bumping Into Manager Rules
You might have met a manager on a bad manager day. Equally as frustrating is when you work for a manager who has rules about problem solving. I once worked for a manager who proudly ...

How expensive is a method call in Java
We have all been there. Looking at the poorly designed code while listening to the author’s explanations about how one should never sacrifice performance over design. And you just ...

How To Remove Friction From Your Version Control Experience
Last week, I spend several days fixing a bug that only surfaced in a distributed environment.I felt pressure to fix it quickly, because our continuous integration build was red, and ...

Traditional Programming Language Job Trends – 2013-02
The winter edition of the job trends are back! Today, we are looking at traditional programming languages, which currently include Java, C++, C#, Objective C, Perl and Visual Basic. ...

Analysing a Java Core Dump
In this post, I will show you how you can debug a Java core file to see what caused your JVM to crash. I will be using a core file I generated in my previous post: Generating a Java ...

System Testing a Java Web Service in Jetty
Automated system tests are an invaluable part of ensuring your software product is functioning as intended. On many of our projects, we are lucky enough to work with languages and frameworks ...

Introduction to Collated Views with Couchbase 2.0
Most of the applications have to deal with ‘master/detail’ type of data:breweries and beer department and employees invoices and items …This is necessary for example ...

JSF – Eager CDI beans
Everybody knows eager managed beans in JSF 2. @ManagedBean has an eager attribute. If eager=’true’ and the scope is application, then this bean must be created when the ...



