Java
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Google Guava Multisets
Continuing this tour of Guava we get to the Multiset. I probably don’t use this as much as Multimaps or…
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XAML or JavaFx?
This a quick, subjective, unauthorative and very non-scientific comparison of building applications with XAML and with JavaFx. The comparison is…
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Migrating a Large Project from Ant to Maven
The truth is we had been under difficult times. We spent almost three months to migrate our build mechanism from…
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A Selenium/WebDriver example in Java
A couple of years back, I was pitching for some work and the client wanted to see how I would…
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Local variables inside a loop and performance
Overview Sometimes a question comes up about how much work allocating a new local variable takes. My feeling has always…
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Weak, Weaker, Weakest, Harnessing The Garbage Collector With Specialist References
When and when not to use specialist references in Java Weak, Soft and Phantom references are dangerous and powerful. If…
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Using Apache Commons Functor functional interfaces with Java 8 lambdas
Apache Commons Functor (hereon [functor]) is an Apache Commons component that provides a functional programming API and several patterns implemented…
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Ensuring the order of execution for tasks
Sometimes it is necessary to impose certain order on the tasks in a threadpool. Issue 206 of the JavaSpecialists newsletter…
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Can synchronization be optimised away?
Overview There is a common misconception that because the JIT is smart and synchronization can be eliminated for an object…
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