Integrating Active Directory from Java

Firstly you will need to setup Active Directory so that you can run and test your code. If (like me)…

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Git: Going back to a specific date time and retrospective tagging

I’m a fairly happy Git user :-)  It’s and excellent product and a great improvement on CVS, SVN, SourceSafe, PVCS…

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Revisiting the First Rule of Performance Optimisation: Effects of Escape Analysis

In an earlier post I wrote about how to start optimising for performance. If you haven’t read the post I would…

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Exceptions in Lambdas: An Elegant Solution to a Bit of a Mess

Consider the following function for writing to a file: The idea behind the method is to allow the user to…

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C# vs Java Which one is Faster? Translating 25k C# into Java (2)

In a previous article I described how I translated 25k lines of C# into Java and the lessons learnt from…

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Simple Class to Measure Latency

This is a very simple class I wrote to measure latency.  It’s not the Rolls Royce solution that is HDRHistogram but…

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Lessons Learnt Translating 25k line of C# into Java

For various reasons I’ve recently completed a project converting a complex financial application from C# to Java. The reasons for…

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Cheating with Exceptions – Java 8 Lambdas

Cheating with Exceptions – Java 8 Lambdas Leaving aside the religious debate about Checked vs Runtime exceptions, there are times…

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FileSystemMap: A Natural Way to Interact with your File System

As part of a project I’m working on at the moment I’ve been looking at creating a FileSystemMap. I’ve started…

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