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A Troublesome Legacy: Memory Leaks in Java

Here's a solid primer for memory leaks in Java, including how they get started and how to avoid them, with a particular focus on Android development.

July 2, 2017

by Enrique Lopez Manas

· 25,277 Views · 17 Likes

Transforming XML Messages Using XSLT With Apache Camel

This tutorial will show you the method to transform XML messages with Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations in Apache Camel.

July 1, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

CORE

· 26,476 Views · 8 Likes

Capturing Values in Swift Closures

Closures are a powerful Swift feature which makes for a clean and readable Swift codebase. Master closures to avoid problems like strong reference cycles.

June 30, 2017

by Marco Santarossa

· 7,136 Views · 1 Like

JDK 9: Creating a Java Runtime Image With Maven

Java runtime images are designed for projects to run in a target environment without the need for a JRE installation. Here's how Java 9 and Maven will make them work.

June 29, 2017

by Karl Heinz Marbaise

· 18,740 Views · 6 Likes

wxPython: Getting Data From All Columns in a ListCtrl

The ListCtrl does not make it very obvious how to get the data from all or any certain column. Look at how we might accomplish this task.

June 29, 2017

by Mike Driscoll

· 6,162 Views

Concurrency: Java Futures and Kotlin Coroutines

When it comes to concurrency, check out Java and Kotlin's chosen champions: Futures and Streaming for Java and the experimental coroutines for Kotlin.

June 29, 2017

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 28,153 Views · 13 Likes

Sorting Dictionaries in Python

In this post, we take a look at how to sort the entries in a Python dictionary. Sometimes you just need to sort the unsorted!

June 28, 2017

by Jay Sridhar

· 152,577 Views · 5 Likes

CALayer and Auto Layout With Swift

This article presents three different methods as a workaround for the missing auto layout in sublayers when developing for iOS mobile apps.

June 28, 2017

by Marco Santarossa

· 16,297 Views · 1 Like

A SonarQube Plugin for Kotlin: Creating the Plugin

After parsing the code and creating the checks, this series on SonarQube plugins goes into coding up an actual plugin for custom-developed violations.

Updated June 28, 2017

by Nicolas Fränkel

CORE

· 7,626 Views · 1 Like

Design Patterns in the Age of Microservices and Frameworks

The Gang of Four were instrumental in solidifying the classic Java design patterns, but has their usefulness fallen off in a world with microservices and frameworks?

June 28, 2017

by Grzegorz Ziemoński

· 41,636 Views · 34 Likes

Challenges of Sharding MySQL

When it comes to sharding MySQL clusters, significant challenges can be faced. Take a look at some of them, how to address them, and why they're worth overcoming.

June 27, 2017

by Dave Anselmi

· 37,466 Views · 3 Likes

Introduction to Apache Camel

This tutorial introduces Apache Camel's architecture and shows you how to implement some simple Camel integrations and tests.

June 27, 2017

by Jitendra Bafna

CORE

· 29,433 Views · 16 Likes

Apache Spark on YARN – Performance and Bottlenecks

In this series, we learn about performance tuning and fixing bottlenecks in high-level APIs with an Apache Spark application on YARN.

June 27, 2017

by Rathnadevi Manivannan

· 30,681 Views · 12 Likes

Using Logs to Investigate a Web Application Attack

If you're look to pinpoint the cause or vulnerability that led to your system being hacked, using logs is a great way of going about it.

June 26, 2017

by Agathoklis Prodromou

· 23,014 Views · 2 Likes

Clojure Concurrency and Blocking With core.async

Take a deep dive into the performance problem of concurrent apps that use core.async where blocking operations are involved. If you're a fan of Clojure, you need to read this.

June 26, 2017

by Eli Bendersky

· 5,389 Views · 3 Likes

Java Command-Line Interfaces (Part 2): args4j

In this post, we'll take a look at parsing command-line arguments in Java applications using args4j.

June 24, 2017

by Dustin Marx

· 24,028 Views · 5 Likes

Deploy a PHP With Couchbase Application as Docker Containers

See how to create an automatically provisioned Couchbase node and simplistic PHP application that writes and reads data from the Couchbase NoSQL node.

June 23, 2017

by Nic Raboy

· 5,183 Views · 2 Likes

MongoDB Indexes With Spring Data

Look at annotations that can be applied to a class to create indexes that have been specified within the class. See what indexes do and how they can decrease query times.

June 22, 2017

by Dan Newton

· 68,301 Views · 7 Likes

Java Command-Line Interfaces (Part 1): Apache Commons CLI

Sometimes, you need to parse command-line arguments in a Java application. There are a number of options, but in this post, we look at the Apache Commons CLI library.

June 22, 2017

by Dustin Marx

· 60,556 Views · 20 Likes

NMEA Data Acquisition: An IoT Exercise With Python

This comprehensive post covers the basic data arc that many IoT projects have—exploration, modeling, filtering, and persistence—using Python.

June 21, 2017

by Steven Lott

· 13,346 Views · 4 Likes

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