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Career
How to Make More Money (and the plateau)
Most extended discussions about the technology industry and software engineering trade eventually find their way to the topics of worker supply and…
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Core Java
Constructors Must Be Code-Free
How much work should be done within a constructor? It seems reasonable to do some computations inside a constructor and…
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Software Development
Neo4j: Finding all shortest paths
One of the Cypher language features we show in Neo4j training courses is the shortest path function which allows you…
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Core Java
How to Access a Method’s Result Value From the Finally Block
While the JVM is a stack-based machine, the Java language doesn’t really offer you any way to access that Stack.…
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Enterprise Java
Java EE, Docker and Maven (Tech Tip #89)
Java EE applications are typically built and packaged using Maven. For example, github.com/javaee-samples/javaee7-docker-maven is a trivial Java EE 7 application and shows the…
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Software Development
Revisiting the First Rule of Performance Optimisation: Effects of Escape Analysis
In an earlier post I wrote about how to start optimising for performance. If you haven’t read the post I would…
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Core Java
Immutable Infrastructure, hotdeploys, and the JVM
Do you deploy and undeploy your JVM-based applications (regardless of JVM container/no-container) in production? ie, when you have new versions…
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Enterprise Java
Apache Camel Wire Tap Examples
If you want to monitor, debug, troubleshoot messages that are flowing through the route without the bother of permanently consuming…
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Desktop Java
JavaFX, Project Jigsaw and JEP 253
So Java 9 may break your code… This is particularly likely if your project uses JavaFX because many customizations and…
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