Git: Checking out only a specific folder
I’ve been looking for a way to checkout only a specific folder from a git repository. Most answers I found to this problem stated that it’s not feasible - bu...
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Web programming for server people
I’m mainly a back-end engineer - through my not-so-long career, I’ve dealt with sql, no-sql, offline processes, etl mechanisms, billing services, web-crawler...
Finally! What’s hogging your RAM?
Some of you may have noticed that the Windows Task Manager doesn’t show you the real memory consumption of the applications you’re running. It’s quite obviou...
Zorpia is a scam
I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately from a website called”Zorpia” claiming I have a message from someone named Katja. I’ve never signed into this websit...
Maven: Building a Java-Groovy mixed project
I have a project that mixes Java and Groovy, and the main problem I ran into was that the jar was nicely built, but it only contained the Java classes, and n...
XMLing in Java? Use java-xmlbuilder
XML is not native to Java. Many will disagree, but this is just the simple truth. It’s tedious, messy and generally ugly - specially compares to Groovy or Sc...
Beware of Doubles, Floats, and generally floating points…
I’ve recently encountered few people who were naive about the representations of real (i.e not integers) numbers in computer languages , like double and floa...
Comparison method violates its general contract!
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
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I have a brand new Lenovo T510 , i7, 4G ,64bit , Windows 7 with an Nvidia GPU - and it sucks. In this price , with these specifications , it really shouldn’t...