Mocking in Go

I was recently asked to help out on a project with the aim of recommending how to implement some additional…

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Default Methods: Java 8’s Unsung Heros

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog saying that developers learn new languages because they’re cool. I still stand…

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The Simple Story Paradox

I’ve recently been following the #isTDDDead debate between Kent Beck (@kentbeck), David Heinemeier Hansson (@dhh), and Martin Fowler (@martinfowler) with…

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Is it Imperative that you learn Functional Programming with Java 8?

I’ve recently been taking look at Java 8 and have got hold of “Java 8 In Action” published by Manning.…

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Tracking Exceptions – Part 6 – Building an Executable Jar

If you’ve read the previous five blogs in this series, you’ll know that I’ve been building a Spring application that…

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Just What Are Spring 3.2 Matrix Variables? – Part 2: The Code

My last blog on Spring’s support for Matrix Variables concentrated on explaining what they were and why you’d want to…

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Just What Are Spring 3.2 Matrix Variables? – Part 1

Spring 3.2 introduced support for processing something called ‘Matrix Variables’ and probably like most developers, I’ve never heard of them.…

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Tracking Exceptions – Part 5 – Scheduling With Spring

It seems that I’m finally getting close to the end of this series of blogs on Error Tracking using Spring…

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Tracking Exceptions – Part 4 – Spring’s Mail Sender

If you’ve read any of the previous blogs in this series, you may remember that I’m developing a small but…

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