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IntelliJ Plugin Development Cookbook

Posted on July 27, 2024 by hedleyproctor

This post is intended to help people writing IntelliJ plugins, with a focus on plugins for Java projects. Although the IntelliJ docs are pretty good, this post collects together lots of small “how to” instructions that I’ve found useful when … Continue reading →

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Hibernate Best Practices – using sequences for bulk inserts

Posted on August 2, 2021 by hedleyproctor

For many database tables, an auto increment column is used for the primary key. This is fine for inserting single values, but if you want to bulk insert hundreds or thousands of values and you need to refer to the … Continue reading →

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Generating code with JavaPoet

Posted on September 7, 2017 by hedleyproctor

Why write code when you can generate it? There are lots of situations when it makes more sense to generate. In this article I’m going to work through an example of how to use JavaPoet and Apache BeanUtils to write … Continue reading →

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Writing a custom spliterator in Java 8

Posted on June 12, 2017 by hedleyproctor

In this article I’m going to give two examples of writing a custom spliterator in Java 8. What is a spliterator and why would you need to write your own? Well, a spliterator is used by the Java streams code … Continue reading →

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Effective Selenium testing

Posted on July 28, 2012 by hedleyproctor

Selenium is the de facto standard for testing web applications. In this article I’m going to cover a number of techniques for improving your Selenium tests. The article is suitable for you if: You already know the basics of Selenium … Continue reading →

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