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Biggest Change to the Java Ecosystem: New Blood

Former JUG leader and MVB Dave Fecak chimes in on a major change to the Java ecosystem. What direction will Java go if entry level devs are losing interest in the language?

July 26, 2016

by Dave Fecak

· 14,025 Views · 11 Likes

Unit Testing Mule DataWeave Scripts with MUnit

DataWeave is a powerful transformation language introduced with Mule Enterprise Edition 3.7. It allows you to transform data from one format to another and supports CSV, XML, JSON, Flat/Fixed Width (v3.8+) & Java. You can look at these DataWeave Examples to see it in action.

July 26, 2016

by Manik Magar

· 20,375 Views · 3 Likes

Java 8 Top Tips

Time for a refresher of best practices when using Java 8, including basics around Streams and Lambda Expressions.

July 26, 2016

by Trisha Gee

· 45,065 Views · 65 Likes

Get the Cell Value From GridView in C#

A beginner tutorial for C# and ASP.NET users on working with controls like GridView.

July 26, 2016

by Karthik Elumalai

· 69,233 Views · 2 Likes

Java Code Challenge: Play the Stockmarket Solution

The solution to last week's Java Code Challenge in a surprisingly simple way.

July 26, 2016

by Sam Atkinson

· 7,673 Views · 4 Likes

How to Debug Java with IntelliJ: Breakpoints, Evaluate Expression, Watches, and Variable View

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.

July 25, 2016

by Alan Richardson

· 52,265 Views · 11 Likes

Import and Export Excel Files into Varbinary (Max) in SQL Server

See how to combine a bit of C#, MS SQL, and ASPX to create quick and easy import and export buttons for your database.

July 25, 2016

by Karthik Elumalai

· 14,414 Views · 1 Like

XCFit: Full Stack BDD for Swift Using XCUI, Cucumberish, and Fitnesse

Shashikant Jagtap takes us through the features and usage of XCFit, which can be used to enable BDD for iOS and macOS using Swift.

July 25, 2016

by Shashikant Jagtap

· 10,816 Views · 2 Likes

What You Should Know About NODE_ENV

Node.js programmers often check the NODE_ENV environment variable, but did you know the value actually set for the it can have additional implications? Read on to find out what they are.

July 24, 2016

by Can Ho

· 113,980 Views · 3 Likes

How to store and consolidate configuration variables while also being able to deploy individual microservices.

July 22, 2016

by Andrej Medic

· 9,801 Views · 1 Like

Using Handlebars Java as a Server Side Templating Language

The disconnect between a programming language and how media is rendered has always caused problems. Handlebars is one of the best solutions on the market right now for Java devs building web apps.

July 21, 2016

by Siva Prasad Rao Janapati

· 27,300 Views · 12 Likes

Apache PDFBox Command-Line Tools: No Java Coding Required

Manipulating PDFs via the command line — with no Java experience necessary — is possible with Apache PDFBox 2! Find out more in this post.

July 21, 2016

by Dustin Marx

· 19,213 Views · 7 Likes

Getting the Most out of Your Database with Ruby on Rails

In this post we examine some tricks to help get even more out your database using Ruby on Rails. Come find out how you can benefit from these tricks!

July 20, 2016

by James Higginbotham

· 6,340 Views · 1 Like

Python: Simple HTTP Server With CGI Scripts Enabled

This article takes us through how to get Python code running as a CGI script on a web server. Check it out!

July 20, 2016

by Zemian Deng

· 35,480 Views · 4 Likes

Folding the Universe, Part III: Java 8 List and Stream

Part three of a series on modeling Java problems as folds, looking specifically at streams in Java 8.

July 20, 2016

by Pierre-Yves Saumont

· 37,356 Views · 17 Likes

How to Test if Your Multi-Threaded Java Rest Service Is Thread Safe

Thomas Krieger shows how to test if your rest service is thread safe by analyzing a counter with a race condition and using a multi-threaded test runner.

July 19, 2016

by Thomas Krieger

· 45,872 Views · 18 Likes