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Running Away from Maven

After managing a number of Java projects with Maven, the 2.1 release of the TwigÂ Cassandra JDBC driver fork has prompted me to revisit the build process. This was a significant rewrite of the existing Apache driver, and incorporated a build process that leveraged theÂ maven-assembly-plugin to produce a JAR with all of the dependencies included.
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By Eric, 10 yearsJanuary 4, 2016 ago

Predictions

Annual 2016 Predictions

It seems that manyÂ of the 2015 headlinesÂ continue to gravitate towards security and customer privacy concerns. In fact, the exposure of customer data by MCX has proven to be nearly an insurmountable hurdle for CurrenC which now leaves Apple Pay as the leader in this space.
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By Eric, 10 yearsDecember 27, 2015 ago

Development

Perils of Java Date Formats

Java has a rather sordid history with dates. In the beginning, Date was suppose to be the way to manage dates, which sounded rather logical. You could construct a Date from various component values (month, day, year and time), and internally it was measured as the number of milliseconds from epoch.
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By Eric, 11 years ago