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Subversion Branch Merging and Tree Conflicts
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes I’ve written several times about how I recommend avoiding long lived feature branches. But, if you have to use these, you might run into a problem with subversion...
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Some Problems with Branch Based Development, And Recommendations
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes As I have previously written, I dislike branch based development (especially when it involves subversion and long lived feature branches). Sometimes projects have multiple...
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Spring Bean Autowiring into Handler/Controller Method Arguments
Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes We request scope controllers in our Spring MVC web application, and then spring injects in collaborators. Each request builds up an object graph of mostly request scoped...
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Spring Slow Autowiring by Type getBeanNamesForType fix 10x Speed Boost...
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes We’re using Spring MVC, configured mostly by annotations, a custom scope for FactoryBeans so they don’t get created once per request, and autowiring by type. This makes for...
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Web Caching Design: Cache keys should be deterministic
Reading time: 2 – 2 minutes Following up on my previous post on Session State, there are a few conceptual ways to think about caches that I want to cover. Cached items can be placed in session. That...
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Sukrupa in Bangalore, an AMAZING organization, and ThoughtWorks
Reading time: 3 – 5 minutes I’ve been living in Bangalore since October. First training at ThoughtWorks University (TWU), now working for a UK client. The people and work has been amazing. Best of all...
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Book Review: The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges’ Library of Babel
Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes This book is *awesome*! Why? The author takes a short story, “The Library of Babel,” by Jorge Luis Borges and analyzes it along many different mathematical dimensions. The...
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Book Review: The McKinsey Mind. Focusing on Mutually Exclusive Collectively...
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management Techniques of the World’s Top Strategic Consulting Firm by Ethan M. Rasiel My...
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Book: Power: Why Some People Have It-and Others Don’t
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes Power: Why Some People Have It-and Others Don’t by Jeffrey Pfeffer My rating: 3 of 5 stars It is an easy read with interesting examples. If you dislike the title, consider...
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Improving developers enthusiasm for unit tests, using bubble charts
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes The Idea Visualize your team’s code to get people enthused and more responsible for unit testing. See how commits contribute to or degrade testability. See massive, untested...
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