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What Are the Most Important Elements of Databases?

The most important elements of the database depend upon the application at hand.

February 7, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 24,859 Views · 3 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

· 67,266 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

· 10,271 Views · 5 Likes

What Is Persistent Data?

Find out more about the ability to retain data in a durable and recoverable form even as hardware, software, and devices evolve.

February 6, 2016

by Tom Smith

CORE

· 36,542 Views · 5 Likes

Code Commenting Patterns

The different kinds of *super useful* comments you'll see developers add to their code.

February 5, 2016

by John Vester

CORE

· 277,833 Views · 43 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

· 15,667 Views · 3 Likes

Go-client for PayPal API

LogPacker is a log collection, analysis, and transfer service. It has a Go backend. Check out this neat use case in integrating the Go-client with the PayPal API!

February 5, 2016

by Vladislav Chernov

· 6,456 Views · 3 Likes

Code Analysis With Gradle Plugins

Code Analysis is usually done as the last step (if done at all) in most projects. It is usually hard to configure and integrate it with the existing code. This article aims to outline the steps (and the ease of it) to integrate PMD and FindBugs with Gradle, and integrate these with an existing Sonar build tool.

February 5, 2016

by Vivek Raman

· 421,258 Views · 7 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

· 10,309 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

· 20,884 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

· 28,934 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

· 54,839 Views · 41 Likes

4 Free Weather Providers API To Develop Weather Apps

Thinking of building an app that displays weather information? Here are some APIs that can help you.

February 4, 2016

by Francesco Azzola

· 299,483 Views · 5 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

· 14,550 Views · 9 Likes

Dropwizard Part 3: Measuring Your Application Metrics

In the third part of our Dropwizard exploration, we'll look at measuring application metrics with meters, gauges, timers, and histograms!

February 3, 2016

by Sam Atkinson

· 47,299 Views · 6 Likes

Calculating the Birthday Paradox in SciPy

John Cook looks at how to calculate the probability that two people in a group have the same birthday in SciPy.

February 3, 2016

by John Cook

· 4,277 Views · 4 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

· 48,411 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

· 21,879 Views · 8 Likes

Java 8 CompletableFutures Part I

Java 8's debut included a neat concurrency too, the CompletableFuture class. Here's an awesome look at CompletableFutures, with a glance at combining and composing tasks.

February 2, 2016

by Bill Bejeck

· 30,236 Views · 8 Likes

Real Time Sensor Dashboard Using Google App Engine and Raspberry Pi Zero

How to set up a sensor dashboard in Google App Engine to use with a Raspberry Pi Zero.

February 2, 2016

by Omer Dawelbeit

· 18,138 Views · 7 Likes

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