Software Development
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Sed: Using environment variables
I’ve been playing around with the BBC football data set that I wrote about a couple of months ago and…
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A Software Engineer As a High-Level Government Adviser
Two months ago I took the job of adviser to the cabinet of the deputy prime minister of my country…
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Some thoughts about yagni
Yagni means “You Aren’t Gonna Need It”. This is a phrase used many times to refuse the development of some…
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MySQL Is a Great NoSQL
NoSQL is a set of database technologies built to handle massive amounts of data or specific data structures foreign to…
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RAM is the new SSD
Your data fits in RAM. Yes, it does. Don’t believe it? Visit the hilarious yourdatafitsinram.com website. But there is an…
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Building A Chat App With Codename One Part 4
This tutorial is starting to get interesting…. In this section we’ll go deep into animations, special effects, search styling and…
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Examples of caching backfiring on performance
In 2015 it should not surprise anyone that caching frequently used data is likely to improve the performance of the…
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Interface over-segregation
Programmers easily spot bloated interfaces, and usually carry with them an assortment of, “Knives and stabbing weapons,” for just such…
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Mysql versions prior to 5.7 do not fully support two phase commit
While doing some tests for the recently released generic JCA adapter which is capable of binding remote calls to microservices…
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