The Mouse is a Programmer’s Enemy

One of the first programming management books I was encouraged to read was Peopleware – Productive Projects and Teams. It…

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Java Enterprise Software Versus What it Should Be

A lot of developers end up in the Java “enterprise” world at some point in their careers. I know the…

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Why Developers Keep Making Bad Technology Choices

Today, software developers are faced with a great abundance of options when choosing how to design and implement systems. We…

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Common and Unique Elements In Multiple Collections

This week, we’ll take a break from higher level problems and technology posts to deal with just a little code…

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Problems with ORMs Part 2 – Queries

In my previous post on Object-Relational Mapping tools (ORMs), I discussed various issues that I’ve faced dealing with the common…

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Morphia and MongoDB: Evolving Document Structures

In my previous post on Morphia, I went through some typical usages and mentioned some caveats and workarounds for known…

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Cloning of Serializable and Non-Serializable Java Objects

Frequently developers rely on 3d party libraries to avoid reinventing the wheel, particularly in the Java world, with projects like…

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Ignoring Self-Signed Certificates in Java

A problem that I’ve hit a few times in my career is that we sometimes want to allow self-signed certificates…

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Java 7 Feature Overview

We discussed previously everything that didn’t make it into Java 7 and then reviewed the useful Fork/Join Framework that did…

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