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Software Development
The Actual vs Plan Dichotomy
I’ve once worked for the IT department of a large restaurant network. They had a secret sauce, and this wasn’t…
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Software Development
Canary Tests
Canary Tests are minimal tests to quickly and automatically verify that everything you depend on is ready. You run Canary…
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Software Development
TDD Vs. math formalism: friend or foe?
It is not uncommon to oppose the empirical process of TDD, together with its heavy use of unit tests, to…
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Software Development
Collaborative Artifacts as Code
A software development project is a collaborative endeavor. Several team members work together and produce artifacts that evolve continuously over…
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Software Development
Signal-to-noise ratio in your code
You write code to deliver business value, hence your code deals with a business domain like e-trading in finance, or…
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Core Java
Java Enums: You have grace, elegance and power and this is what I Love!
While Java 8 is coming, are you sure you know well the enums that were introduced in Java 5? Java…
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Core Java
Functional style in Java with predicates – Part 2
In the first part of this article we introduced predicates, which bring some of the benefits of functional programming to…
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Core Java
Functional style in Java with predicates – Part 1
You keep hearing about functional programming that is going to take over the world, and you are still stuck to…
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Core Java
Functional programming with Map and Fold in Java
In functional programming, Map and Fold are two extremely useful operators, and they belong to every functional language. If the…
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