Aaron Digulla

Switzerland

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I'm a software developer living in Switzerland. You can reach me at digulla at hepe dot com.

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JPA EntityManager: Why use persist() over merge()?

jpa merge entitymanager persist asked Jul 1 '09 at 16:03

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What's the difference between window.location= and window.location.replace()?

javascript window location asked Dec 8 '09 at 9:40

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Turn off buffering in pipe

shell pipe asked Jun 16 '09 at 10:27

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38 votes

How is it possible that kill -9 for a process on Linux has no effect?

linux process sysadmin kill asked Mar 29 '09 at 14:39

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35 votes

How do I run a bat file in the background from another bat file?

windows-xp batch-file cmd.exe asked Mar 16 '09 at 8:27

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Is there a cookbook guide for GC problems?

java garbage-collection cookbook asked Jul 29 '11 at 9:37

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How can I handle time zones in my webapp?

web-applications timezone usability asked May 31 '12 at 13:31

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How to detect duplicate JARs in the classpath?

java jar classpath asked May 18 '09 at 14:21

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Is there a program which can help understand another program?

programming-languages asked Mar 10 '10 at 8:44

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15 votes

What's the minimum classpath for an Axis2 client?

java maven-2 classpath axis2 asked Nov 26 '08 at 9:51

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How can I remove the first line of a text file using bash/sed script?

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In a bidirectional JPA OneToMany/ManyToOne association, what is meant by “the inverse side of the association”?

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When deciding on whether or not to work for a new company, what are your dealbreakers?

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svn: replace trunk with branch

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Java Swing or Java Qt?

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What does JVM flag CMSClassUnloadingEnabled actually do?

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Passing a String by Reference in Java?

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Show SOME invisible/whitespace characters in Eclipse

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Why does the Double.valueof javadoc say it caches values, when it doesn't?

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Java GUI frameworks. What to choose? Swing, SWT, AWT, SwingX, JGoodies, JavaFX, Apache Pivot?

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node.js on multi-core machines

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TDD Anti-patterns catalogue

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How can I restrict the use of other applications during an online exam?

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How many developers actually have private offices?

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Should we use Nexus or Artifactory for a Maven Repo?

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Does Agile force developers to spend more time actually working?

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Work on a remote project with Eclipse via SSH

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Judging competency - does one swallow make a summer?

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How does Eclipse compile classes with only a JRE?

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What does the class class [B represents in Java?

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Why do wizards live in towers

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multi-CPU, multi-core and hyper-thread

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Postmortem scripts that run in case of your untimely death?

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How do I protect python code?

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SVG Positioning

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CSS How to set div height 100% minus nPx

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TDD Anti-patterns catalogue

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How to Auto resize HTML table cell to fit the text size

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Why does the following code always output 16?

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Why are many languages case sensitive?

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