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Software Development
A Vision of the Future of the Software Developerās Platform
How will the developerās platform change over the next three years?Ā Will you still be using desktop-based development tools? Cloud-basedĀ software development…
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Software Development
What Iāve Learned After 15 Years as a Java Group Leader
After founding the Philadelphia Area Java Usersā Group in 2000 and leading itĀ for 15 years, Iāve decided to resign my…
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Enterprise Java
Openshift: Build Spring Boot application on Wildfly 8.2.0 with Java 8
OpenShift DIY cartridge is a great way to test unsupported languages on OpenShift. But it is not scalable (you can…
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Enterprise Java
JPA 2.1 criteria delete/update and temporary tables in Hibernate
Since JPA version 2.0 the EntityManager offers the method getCriteriaBuilder() to dynamically build select queries without the need of string…
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Desktop Java
JavaFX Tip 18: Path Clipping
I recently noticed that the PopOver control, which I committed to the ControlsFX project, does not properly clip its content.…
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Core Java
Thou Shalt Not Name Thy Method āEqualsā
(unless you really override Object.equals(), of course). Iāve stumbled upon a rather curious Stack Overflow question by user Frank: Why…
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Core Java
Using junit for something else
junit != unit test Junit is the Java unit testing framework. We use it for unit testing usually, but many…
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Core Java
Java 8 pitfall – Beware of Files.lines()
There’s a really nice new feature in Java8 which allows you to get a stream of Strings from a file…
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Enterprise Java
Calculate PageRanks with Apache Hadoop
Currently I am following the Coursera training āMining Massive Datasetsā. I have been interested in MapReduce and Apache Hadoop for…
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