Do Primitives Need To Go?

I am currently working on an enterprise application using JSF as the view technology and JPA for the persistence layer.…

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XML Manipulation With XML Copy Editor

The XML document format, created in 1996, is still widely used to facilitate communication between disparate systems (though for certain…

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Caching Strategy Reminder for Maven-Based Docker Builds

My local development feedback loop between code change and runnable container was annoyingly long on a Maven-based project I was…

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Checking Sanity in TDD Testing

Whether you’re in the process of fully adopting Test Driven Development (TDD), providing unit tests after you have written your…

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Docker: VMs, Code Migration, and SOA Solved

It’s rare that a piece of software as new as Docker is readily adopted by startups along with huge, well…

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Someday Is a Lie

“You don’t have a time machine— you’re living the same twenty-four hours we all are. You can barely make it…

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Using PouchDB for Offline/Data Sync

Recently the term “Mobile First” received additional notoriety as the new CEO of Microsoft proclaimed the company’s shift in focus.…

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Java And The Sweet Science

When you have been developing in Java for 15 years and a coworker asks you to help them debug a…

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Don’t just randomize, truly randomize!

The state of web application cryptography has changed, and each development language provides its own way of working with it.…

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