Understanding AWS Billing and EC2 reservations

One of the most confusing things I approached when working with AWS was the Billing. There are tools which should…

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Create JNDI resources for JUnit testing using Spring

Until recently, I had static methods setting up my in memory database (HSQLDB). I called these methods in setUp/tearDown of…

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Code is NOT poetry, it is just code

One can read in the footer of WordPress.org: Code is Poetry. This is quite a bold statement and whoever believes…

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It’s time: Bring Dart to Android

As one of the first users of Google’s Dart language, I always felt like it could do more than “just…

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Customizing Log4j 2.0

We are getting closer and closer to a Log4j 2 GA release and for that reason we should start looking…

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Apache log4j is the leading logging framework

According to a survey from Zero Turnaround Apache log4j is the leading Java logging framework. This was actually a very…

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Log4j 2: Performance close to insane

Recently a respected member of the Apache community tried Log4j 2 and wrote on Twitter: @TheASF #log4j2 rocks big times!…

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Fragmented projects and overcommitted people

In 2010 I wrote two articles on Burn-Out and exhaustion in software teams. Since then there were more and more…

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The new log4j 2.0

Before a while a new major version of the well known log4j logging framework was released. Since the first alpha…

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