How to utilize Vagrant's ability to improve VirtualBox by managing and repairing your virtual machines.

Decompiling Java code may not be something you do in daily development but it can help turn the tide when debugging critical problems.

JavascriptExecutor requires us to learn JavaScript, use the Browser Console, and check our locator assumptions using FirePath.

Want to know how to debug a chained WebDriver findElement in Java? In short, split code across lines and breakpoint and use browser dev tools to test the locators used. Read on for more info.

For most enterprises, the gating factor for a successful digital transformation will be how effectively and quickly they can adapt their existing technology strategies and practices to enable the modern-day, microservices-based apps that drive today’s hyperscale economy.

This post has a look at how to effectively debug code in the IntelliJ IDE (hey, not everyone uses Eclipse!). Read on to find out more.

Quartz is job scheduler backed up by most popular RDBMSes. It is really convenient and gets integrated with Spring quite easy.

This article recommends practices for when you are developing an application using a JPA provider or directly an ORM framework.

A 101 crash course on some of the basic categories of tools for DevOps and Continuous Delivery practices.

When developing RESTful web services, people are often confused with handling exceptions. This post will explain a powerful tactic for using exception mapper with the Dropwizard framework.

If you see an annotation, there must be some code somewhere to process it.

In this article, we will discuss how to configure "Quartz Scheduler" with a web application. Read on for more info.

What dark launches are and how they improve the future releases and stability of application infrastructure.

Monitoring, diagnosing, and troubleshooting are key activities in any enterprise application lifecycle, and logging is the core part of these activities. Meet Logback, a logging framework from the creator of Log4J.

We have all kinds of chief officers. Is now the time for Chief Performance Officers (CPO)? With more onus on performance, maybe so.

Groovy is a dynamic language with powerful capabilities for typing and compilation on the Java platform; use this snippet to debug it without compiling.

Need a custom authenticator for your WSO2 Identity Server SSO login? We've got you covered. Let's look at implementing a WSO2IS authenticator, and extend the basic authenticator.

Use the command line to do some efficient batch programming for your firmware boards

In this webinar David Norton, of Gartner Research, discusses findings on Technical Debt that estimates industry IT debt is at $500 billion—and on target to reach $1 trillion by 2015. Now that were in 2015, it's interesting to see him talk about the importance of software analysis and measurement in managing Technical Debt. He also touches on how to measure debt continuously in order to control total cost of ownership of the application life-cycle and include debt measurement in project management and prioritization. Visit here to watch the full webinar: http://goo.gl/yOJZn8

At Bloomfire’s User Conference in May, I had the pleasure of listening to City of Austin’s Chief Innovation Officer Kerry O’Connor present on how government knowledge management is changing. The Innovation Office focuses on internal and public service innovation, as well as open government. O’Connor has worked in the public sector for many years – at the U.S. Department of State, the Office of Management Policy Rightsizing and Innovation, and several U.S. Embassies. She talked about seeing firsthand that the government is changing from a “need to know organization” to a “need to share organization.” O’Connor argues that disruption is inevitable, and will come whether in the form of opportunity or threat – and there’s no script. “When there’s no script,” O’Connor says, “we have to be intentionally improvisational.” O’Connor defines innovation as any project that is new to you and has an uncertain outcome. She talked about how important knowledge is in supporting innovation. As the first person to ever fill this role, her goal for her first year in office was to set up an innovation infrastructure. This included putting into place the processes, teams, and skills and information to create an environment that fosters innovation. O’Connor recommends that to facilitate intentional improvisation, you must frame the problems you want to solve first. Once you know the goal, look for innovation technology infrastructure that helps you manage contacts, relationships, projects, knowledge, ideas, and insights. We live in a world that is increasingly interconnected and disrupted, and O’Connor says that organizations are naturally becoming more networked, human-centered, and improvisational. She encouraged attendees to “use what you have; we must connect, coach, mentor, share, and experiment.” To ensure that citizens can interact with the knowledge that city employees have, the City of Austin created online public spaces. These spaces, created on Bloomfire, offer the opportunity for citizens to participate in a conversation with employees around innovation, data, and city orientation. I was inspired by O’Connor’s presentation, and proud to live in a city that is so forward thinking about how information is shared. It made me want to get more involved in finding ways to solve some of problems Austin is facing as a result of our rapid growth. As a result of her talk, I’m going to try to make it to this weekend’s ATX Hack for Change. If you would like to watch O’Connor’s entire presentation, you can access it on the Bloomfire Community. Like this post? Click here to subscribe to our blog and receive the latest content on social learning, customer support, sales enablement, or all three.