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OpenJPA: Memory Leak Case Study
This article will provide the complete root cause analysis details and resolution of a Java heap memory leak (Apache OpenJPA leak) affecting an Oracle Weblogic server 10.0 production ...

Android Game Development with libgdx – Collision Detection, Part 4
This is the fourth part of the libgdx tutorial in which we create a 2d platformer prototype modeled after Star Guard. You can read up on the previous articles if you are interested ...

Herding Apache Pig – using Pig with Perl and Python
The past week or so we got some new data that we had to process quickly . There are quite a few technologies out there to quickly churn map/reduce jobs on Hadoop (Cascading, Hive, Crunch, ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Backlog
The product backlog is an important tool: It lists ideas, requirements, and new insights. But is it always the right tool to use? This post discusses the strengths of a traditional ...

Starting with WSO2 ESB by running the samples
I recently joined a new assignment where we have to implement an ESB solution based on the WSO2 toolstack. Although I am familiair with most of the concepts of the ESB and some other ...

11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths
I deliver a lot of Agile training courses and I give a lot of talks about Agile (BCS Bristol tonight). There are some questions that come up again and again which are the result of ...

Promises and Deferred objects in jQuery and AngularJS
Series of articles about futures/promises without JavaScript would not be complete. Futures (more commonly named promises in JS land) are ubiquitous in JavaScript to the point where ...

5 Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Software Team
Congrats! You have identified a high-performing, top-notch software development team to design and build your product. (If you are still looking for a team read this.) Want to know ...

Fragmented projects and overcommitted people
In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more articles of this kind printed in the major german press. Psychologists ...

Using Lambda Expression to sort a List in Java 8 using Netbeans Lambda Support
As part of JSR 335 Lambda expressions are being introduced to the Java language from Java 8 onwards and this is a major change in the Java language. If you want to learn more about ...




