Software Development
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The Importance of Unit Testing
I’m currently working on an enhancement to an existing insurance premium rating algorithm. Anyone who has done work in insurance…
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The Power of Spreadsheets in a Reactive, RESTful API
Being mostly a techie, I’ve recently and admittedly been deceived by my own Dilbertesque attitude when I stumbled upon this…
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Go for Java Programmers: Packages, Functions, and Variables
Go’s Familiar Syntax Due to their shared heritage in the C programming language, Go (aka Golang) code should be fairly…
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Creating beautiful release notes with git, gradle and markdown
During the last days I asked myself how to generated releases notes from information that are available in commit /…
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What’s the opposite of duplication?
“If you see the same code structure in more than one place,” writes Martin Fowler in his wonderful, Refactoring book,…
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Go for Java Programmers: Introduction
Background Go (often referred to as “Golang”) is a fairly new programming language, first conceived in 2007, with version 1.0…
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Can MapReduce solve planning problems?
To solve a planning or optimization problem, some solvers tend to scale out poorly: As the problem has more variables…
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The 10 Commandments of Programming
Patterns 34:29 As Turing descended from Mount Compute – with the two iPads of the testimony in his hands as…
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Please, Run That Calculation in Your RDBMS
There’s one thing that you can do terribly wrong when working with RDBMS. And that thing is not running your…
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