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Solr vs Elasticsearch: Battle of The Query DSLs

Comparing Solr and Elasticsearch on how they control ranking, and how their query DSLs stack up against each other.

February 10, 2016

by Doug Turnbull

· 10,992 Views · 11 Likes

Working With Resources, Folders, and Files

Learn about working with files, folders, and resources in Scala projects, such as accessing the resources folder, and reading files line by line.

February 10, 2016

by Alexey Zvolinskiy

· 23,875 Views · 4 Likes

The Datefinder Package in Python

A quick tutorial on using the datefinder package to take any string with dates in it and transform them into a list of Python datetime objects.

February 9, 2016

by Mike Driscoll

· 6,582 Views · 1 Like

Building Your Own Web Scraper with CasperJS

While Python and Ruby are the proven languages for this task, there's no reason we can't do this in JavaScript right?

February 9, 2016

by James Sugrue

· 27,283 Views · 13 Likes

NULL is the Worst Mistake in Computer Science

A treatise on why NULL is the bane of most developers' and most languages' existence, and what can be done to fix it.

February 8, 2016

by Paul Draper

· 58,536 Views · 70 Likes

Java Dynamic Proxy: What is a Proxy and How can We Use It

Learn all about Java dynamic proxies: what they are, when to use, how and when to use in code.

February 8, 2016

by Peter Verhas

CORE

· 145,488 Views · 17 Likes

Fundamentals of Big Data Log Analytics

A presentation and slide deck on using several different tools including Graylog Splunk, and TIBCO to analyze log data.

February 8, 2016

by Kai Wähner

CORE

· 10,235 Views · 3 Likes

SQL Performance Tuning: Query Optimization 101

The following page describes some of the best practices of using SQL queries from a performance perspective. We use Oracle as our primary reference but most of the recommendations are applicable to other RDBMS SQL engines as well.

February 8, 2016

by Bikram Sinha

· 23,212 Views · 9 Likes

How to Create & Instantiate a Class in Node.js

This article offers tips and code samples on creating and instantiating a class in Node.js. Check it out and learn more.

February 8, 2016

by Ajitesh Kumar

· 66,512 Views · 4 Likes

Overview of Java's Escape Analysis

Understand Escape Analysis and write better and more performant Java code today!

February 7, 2016

by Per-Åke Minborg

· 20,840 Views · 7 Likes

CAFEBABE: Java's Magic Word

Java compilers make Java source code into bytecode. Did you know all Java classes start with the word CAFEBABE? Check out this awesome look at the Java magic word.

February 6, 2016

by A N M Bazlur Rahman

CORE

· 67,024 Views · 23 Likes

Samy is My Hero - Hacking Spring Boot

Samy Kamar famously authored the MySpace Samy worm, one that basically shut down the social networking site. Here's a quick look at the story of hacking, specifically focused on hacking spring boot.

February 6, 2016

by John Thompson

· 10,203 Views · 5 Likes

13 Things That Make a Good Build System

How the engineering team at SignalFX came to use CircleCI when listing their DevOps requirements.

February 5, 2016

by AneelLakhani

· 15,546 Views · 3 Likes

Extensible Libraries With ServiceLoader and Spring

The notion of extensible libraries has been around quite a while. Here's an overview of extensible libraries with Spring and ServiceLoader, with awesome inclusions like creating an API.

February 5, 2016

by Michał Minicki

· 10,190 Views · 3 Likes

AES256 on Three Platforms: Using CryptoJS, PyCrypto, and CryptoSwift

Learn more about AES256 encryption and discover cross-platform decryption and encryption, with a look at CryptoJS.

February 4, 2016

by Chase Seibert

· 20,806 Views · 2 Likes

A Sample eCommerce Site With Entity Framework and nopCommerce

Using the code-first approach of the Entity Framework with the open source nopCommerce tool to create an eCommerce website.

February 4, 2016

by Lavish Kumar

· 28,836 Views · 3 Likes

Exceptions in Java: You're (Probably) Doing It Wrong

You've probably used exceptions in Java, but have you used them properly? Generally, exceptions are for exceptional cases. See whether or not you should use checked exceptions, and when and how to use Java exceptions.

February 4, 2016

by Sam Atkinson

· 54,643 Views · 41 Likes

Creating a New JVM Language, Part 1: The Lexer

First step: generate an abstract syntax tree. First part of the first step: the lexer.

February 4, 2016

by Federico Tomassetti

· 14,476 Views · 9 Likes

Single Sign-On Made Easy: SAML With Tomcat and PicketLink

Learn all about SAML single sign-on with PicketLink and Tomcat, including an investigation of how SAML single sign-on works, and overviews of Fediz, Tomcat, and PicketLink.

February 3, 2016

by Brett Crawley

· 48,213 Views · 11 Likes

Bean Validation in JAX-RS

Here's a quick overview of the JAX-RS specification, with exception handling and customizing default JAX-RS behavior.

February 2, 2016

by Abhishek Gupta

CORE

· 21,800 Views · 8 Likes

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