Book review: ‘Are you smart enough to work at Google?’

You need to toss a coin for a football match. The only coin you have is bent and biased towards…

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Code reviews in the 21st Century

There’s an old adage that goes something like: ‘Do not talk about religion or politics’.  Why?  Because these subjects are…

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Extending your JPA POJOs

Extensibility is an important characteristic in many architectures.  It is a measure of how easy (or difficult) it is to…

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Make your JAXB cleaner with the MOXy implementation

The principle advantage of using JAXB when marshalling and demarshalling XML is the programming model. Simply annotate a few POJOs…

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JAXB, SAX, DOM Performance

This post investigates the performance of unmarshalling an XML document to Java objects using a number of different approaches. The…

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Musing on mis-usings: ‘Powerful use, Damaging misuse’

There’s an old phrase attributed to the former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli which states there are three types of…

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SQL or NOSQL: That is the question?

So what’s the deal with NoSQL? Is NoSQL just a controversial buzzword? Could you imagine if the term ‘Object Oriented’…

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