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Career
How to Level Up
I regularly hear from and read about technologists in a career rut. Unless one is both lucky and adept at predicting the future,…
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Software Development
Open Source Completely Underestimates Contributor License Agreements
Reddit’s /r/ProgrammerHumor has recently treated us to this politically incorrect and quite childish little Open Source rant …
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Software Development
Services, Microservices, Nanoservices – oh my!
Apparently there’s this new distributed architecture thing called microservices out and about – so last week I went ahead and…
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Core Java
Oracle Drops Collection Literals in JDK 8
In a posting on the OpenJDK JEP 186 Oracle’s Brian Goetz informs that Oracle will not be pursuing collection literals…
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Enterprise Java
Testing Lucene’s index durability after crash or power loss
One of Lucene’s useful transactional features is index durability which ensures that, once you successfully call IndexWriter.commit, even if the…
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Core Java
Attempt to map WCF to Java terms
By writing this post I’m taking a huge risk of being rejected by both .NET and Java communities. This is…
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Software Development
MongoDB 2.6 is out
Introduction MongoDB is evolving rapidly. The 2.2 version introduced the aggregation framework as an alternative to the Map-Reduce query model.…
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Core Java
Yet another way to handle exceptions in JUnit: catch-exception
There are many ways of handling exceptions in JUnit (3 ways of handling exceptions in JUnit. Which one to choose?,…
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Core Java
Java Rocks More Than Ever
On the TIOBE index, Java and C have been sharing the #1 and #2 rank for a long time now,…
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