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Secure, Flexible and Scalable Build Configuration with Maven

Many of the projects I'm involved in use Maven as build system due to its reliability, widespread use, and flexibility. However, I often find myself hurdling around bad choices with regard to the build process. In this article I'd like to illustrate some of the most useful techniques to implement …

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Tue 24 October 2017

Deploy React Applications in a Servlet Environment

Modern web applications using React and other frameworks are often distributed as static websites. It is undoubtely the simplest, cache-friendly and dead-cheap solution. However, some enterprisey projects (think about data-entry and legacy business applications) need to be deployed in a constrained environment like a Java JEE Servlet Engine (Tomcat, Jetty …

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Tue 19 September 2017

Intellij Live Templates for Javascript Development

I'm a IntelliJ IDEA user since late 2013. After a long (and not without problems) liaison with Eclipse IDE, and before that with the glorious Borland JBuilder, I wanted to try something new. Not that Eclipse was bad per se, it was just getting heavier and buggier release after release, and the plugin ecosystem wasn't anymore something you could rely on. I remember also giving NetBeans a last chance: NO WAY. So I thought "What's all this fuss around JetBrain IntelliJ IDEA?"

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Tue 27 December 2016

Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer

It's been a long time since I wanted to read this book, given enthusiastic reviews from various influential programmers. After "digesting" it (it took me almost three months) I can confirm the absolute value of this publication! Title: The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master Authors: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas …

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Mon 14 January 2013

Recensione Pragmatic Programmer

Era da tempo che volevo leggere questo libro, viste le ottime recensioni da parte di addetti ai lavori o personaggi "influenti" del variegato mondo della programmazione. Ora che l'ho "digerito" (ci ho messo quasi tre mesi per leggerlo tutto!) non posso che confermare l'assoluto valore di questa pubblicazione! Titolo: The …

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Mon 14 January 2013