Category Archives: Java

JDBC Batch vs. Multi-Row Inserts

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

I recently had a requirement to insert a few hudred rows into a relational database ever couple of seconds. Generally this could be accomplished during the request, but I didn’t want to introduce issues if there were spikes. Therefore, I … Continue reading →

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iMac vs. build-your-own

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ve been meaning to do this comparison for a while now, but this morning I decided to just jump in and do it. A lot of people are constantly complaining about how expensive Macs are and I’ve long held the … Continue reading →

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Java Road Trip – Where have all our heroes gone?

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Brian Pontarelli

I got an email from Oracle about the Java Road Trip. Looking over the website I wasn’t immediately excited to attend the event here in Denver. But even more than that, I looked at the profiles for the speakers and … Continue reading →

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Parsing JSON via ScriptEngine in the JDK

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Brian Pontarelli

I’m writing some REST WebServices that return JSON and wanted to ensure that my JSON was correctly formatted and parsable. Since the JDK ships with a JavaScript engine built into it now, I figured it would be simplest to just … Continue reading →

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IntelliJ refresh

Posted on June 11, 2010 by Brian Pontarelli

I’ve been using IntelliJ IDEA for the past 7 years and anyone who knows me will tell you that I’m an IDE snob. However, over the past 7 years I have been using the exact same configuration for IntelliJ IDEA … Continue reading →

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