George Stragand

Regular Expressions and replaceAll

Revisting the lowly replaceAll with its hidden power of regular expressions!
Executors in Java

A brief introduction to Executors and the java.util.concurrent package.
Naming a Workspace in Eclipse

A stupid Eclipse trick to give your workspace a name
Levenshteins' Edit Distance as a Fuzzy String Match

Continuing the fuzzy string match quest, this time with Levenshteins' Edit Distance.
Overview of the Six Week Solution

The complete chapter 4 from Agile Development & Business Goals where the entire six-week development cycle and the compensation concepts are revealed.
Agile Development and Compensation

How can the often overlooked compensation for success when using Agile Software Development methods be addressed?
Overriding default sequence generation with JPA

Inserting records into a database with a sequence number, most of the time it's acceptable to use the default sequence. But what if you need to do something special? The default approach fails and I explain how to override a default sequence with your own custom approach.
Simple Fuzzy String Similarity in Java

Java has equals(), but what if you need to know if one string is "close" to another?

June 2013