Anatomy Of Setting Up An Elasticsearch N-Gram Word Analyzer

To say that n-grams are a massive topic would be an understatement. Do a quick search and you will find…

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Making Spring Batch Groovy

Here at Keyhole, we are very fond of Spring Batch. In many Java Enterprise environments, there is still a big…

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Spring Batch – Replacing XML Job Configuration With JavaConfig

I recently assisted a client in getting up and running with a Spring Batch implementation. The team had decided to move forward…

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Distributed Team & Agile? No Problem!

Tools and Techniques for the Distributed Agile Team The Agile Manifesto asserts that co-location & face-to-face communication are essential components…

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Know Your IDE: Eclipse

When I made the switch from .NET to Java, I naturally had to switch IDEs. With moving to Java, I…

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Short on Time? Switch to Groovy for Unit Testing

If you are a programming today, you have most likely heard of Unit Testing or of the Test-Driven Development process.…

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Avoid Perpetuating These Things In Your Code

At some point in your career you will find yourself leaving the project you’re on and heading to new challenges…

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Netty: A Different Kind of Web(Socket) Server

Netty is used today in all kinds of applications, all over the Internet, to handle thousands (if not millions) of chat…

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Agile Team Member Anti-Patterns

In this blog post, I examine Agile team member roles and explain what I see as behaviors, or “anti-patterns,” that…

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