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Ceylon
Ceylon: Object construction and validation
When porting Java code to Ceylon, I sometimes run into Java classes where the constructor mixes validation with initialization. Let’s…
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Career
Iām Glad You Studied FizzBuzz, But What About the Guaranteed Questions?
Every company takes a different approach to interviews, so without the benefit of inside information it is impossible to predict…
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Software Development
Let it crash
“Let it crash” is a watchword in the Erlang world that has a pretty specific meaning in that context, but…
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Software Development
First for test, second for implementation!
Test-Driven Development is a great technique, isnāt it? Today I want to propose you an experiment that may help you…
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Android Core
How To Read Your Passport With Android
As Iāve been researching machine readable travel documents, I decided to do a little proof-of-concept on reading ePassports using an…
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DevOps
Automated Docker Application Deployment On Alibaba Cloud (Aliyun)
DCHQ, a San Francisco-based startup delivering hybrid-cloud and enterprise application automation, is unveiling its support for Alibaba’s Cloud offering (Aliyun).…
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Software Development
SASI Empowering Secondary Indexes
Back in 2010, a new feature was introduced for Cassandra 0.7: Secondary Indexes. Unlike a relational database index, it is…
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Software Development
Problems in the internet of things
Having worked with connected vehicles for a number of years now, there are some things that it seems newcomers always…
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Enterprise Java
Enabling Entity and Query cache in Hibernate
1. Introduction Amongst the performance related tasksĀ I have been through, this has beenĀ one of them. The concern is that if…
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