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Software Development
Managers and Individual Contributors in Code
I’m lucky to work for a company that makes it possible to have a good technical career, so that I…
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Agile
Design Your Agile Project, Part 4
If you are thinking of agile as part of a program, each team has to have its own approach to…
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Software Development
The anatomy of Connection Pooling
Introduction All projects I’ve been working on have used database connection pooling and that’s for very good reasons. Sometimes we…
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Software Development
Reporting Metrics to Apache Kafka and Monitoring with Consumers
Apache Kafka has been used for some time now by organizations to consume not only all of the data within its…
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Groovy
Groovy 2.3 introduces traits
A few days ago the second beta of Groovy 2.3 got released. One of the major new Groovy 2.3 features…
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Core Java
Handy New Map Default Methods in JDK 8
The Map interface provides some handy new methods in JDK 8. Because the Map methods I cover in this post…
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Android Core
Scheduling Repeated Tasks in Android
A somewhat common usecase for android applications is to have them launched when the phone is started, and execute some…
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Enterprise Java
Validating JAX-RS resource data with Bean Validation in Java EE 7 and WildFly
I have already approached this subject twice in the past. First, on my post Integrating Bean Validation with JAX-RS in…
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Enterprise Java
Spring test with thymeleaf for views
I am a recent convert to thymeleaf for view templating in Spring based web applications, preferring it over jsp’s. All…
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