Arquillian Testing Guide
Preview Text: “Arquillian Testing Guide” is a book you can buy on packt publishing website here: Arquillian Testing Guide. I just read it and you’ll find in this article what i liked and what i missed in i.....»»
"Say Goodbye to Anonymity"
In case you missed 60 Minutes on CBS the other night, there’s a new Preview Text: As CBS showed, Intel is already selling software to recognize the rough demographic of an individual in o.....»»
Data Science at LinkedIn
Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and reflects on the evolving role of the data scientist: Preview Text: Data scientist Monica Rogati discusses data scaling at LinkedIn and .....»»
When to Refactor Code
As a die hard refactorer, but also pragmatic programmer, I often have a tough time articulating to other developers when a refactor is important and when it is gratuitous. I can imagine many people look at decisions I've made about when it is and isn'.....»»
Your login form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP
Here’s an often held conversation between concerned website user and site owner: User: “Hey mate, your website isn’t using SSL when I enter my password, what gives?!” Owner: “Ah, but it posts to HTTPS so your password is se.....»»
I/O 2013: Android Graphics Performance
Chet Haase and Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team share some tips and tricks for getting the most out of Android graphics: Preview Text: Chet Haase and Romain Guy from Google's Android UI team.....»»
Spocklight: Writing Assertions for Arguments Mock Methods
My colleague Arthur Arts has written a blog post Tasty Test Tip: Using ArgumentCaptor for generic collections with Mockito. This inspired me to do the same in Spock. Preview Text: In Spock we can get a .....»»
Apache ActiveMQ – How to resolve java.io.IOException: Too many open files exception?
I have worked on ActiveMQ for quite a while, and there’s one annoying exception that I see all the time – java.io.IOException: Too many open files – which we see time to time. Preview Text: I have wo.....»»
Arun Gupta on Higher Productivity from Embracing HTML5 with Java EE 7
At the annual IOUC (International Oracle User Community) Summit, held January 14–16, 2013, at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, California, more than 100 top user group leaders from around the world gathered to share best practices, provide feed.....»»
Quantifying Scientific Consensus, Zombies in R, and More Data Links
Several posts and articles, this week, starting with this nice Preview Text: Arthur Charpentier's regular data link roundup explores quantified consensus on anthropogenic global warming, compares SAS .....»»
Review of the SATURN 2013 Architecture Conference
I attended the SATURN 2013 conference in Minneapolis a couple of weeks ago, which is an annual practitioner conference about software architecture, organised by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. The conference is in i.....»»
Context Matters: Premature Optimization or Habits From Long Ago?
I’m at the Much Ado About Agile conference this week, in beautiful Vancouver. During lunch one day, one of the conference participants started talking about premature optimization of code. Preview Text: .....»»
Change the Studio Category of your DevKit Component
Anyone that has used DevKit to write a Mule extension and then wanted to add it to Studio, may have notice that the extension will appear under the Cloud Legacy Sponsored: unsponsored.....»»
Git - Simple File Management
Files can be added, committed and removed from git repositories using one or more of the following commands: Adding a file named "testFile.xml" to the index. git add testFile.xml Testing to view differences between the index and HEAD git diff --c.....»»
How Does a Search Engine Work? An Educational Trek Through A Lucene Postings Format
A new feature of Lucene 4 – pluggable codecs – allows for the modification of Lucene’s underlying storage engine. Working with codecs and examining their output yields fascinating insights into how exactly Lucene’s search works in its most fundame.....»»
Spring and the java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: NULL Exception
A few days ago I was going through a project's Maven dependencies, removing unused junk, checking jar file version numbers adding a little dependency management and generally tidying up (yes, I know that this isn't something we often get time to do,.....»»
Links You Don"t Want To Miss (May 21)
DDoSaaS Miiiight Be a Little Sketchy Surprise! If you PayPal someone to conduct a DDoS attack, things might get a little shady. Brian Krebs investigates Ragebooter, and finds a one-man operation running out of Memphis, Tennessee, possibly with the authori.....»»
The Toxic Defense of the Status Quo
It’s insidious. It lurks in damp, dark corners and often goes undetected until it is too late. The symptoms are obvious to those that have encountered it before but a lack of communication often allows it to fester for years right under the nose of uppe.....»»
Navigation Drawer gets official Google guidelines
Finally, the pattern that is now called Navigation Drawer has got official guidelines from Google. This pattern has become very popular in apps but the implementation has been very different due to lack of official support. Preview Text:&nb.....»»
Unix: Working with parts of large files
Chris and I were looking at the neo4j log files of a client earlier in the week and wanted to do some processing of the file so we could ask the client to send us some further information.The log file was over 10,000 lines long but the bit of the fil.....»»