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[Databases] MongoDB – document-oriented NoSQL storage

MongoDB is an open-source NoSQL database. It is written in C++. Manages collections of documents saved in BSON (Binary javaScript Object Notation, it extends JSON) format. In the article I want to show basic CRUD (Create, Remove, Update, Delete) operations … Continue reading

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[Java] Hibernate + MySQL + UTF-8 how-to

If you wonder how to configure your Hibernate to cooperate with MySQL using UTF-8 character encoding – you are in the right place. The problem you may suffer from: you are using other languages than English in your web application … Continue reading

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[Databases] Who does use NoSQL?

I believe that you have heard many things about NoSQL databases, but you wonder if there is any project that uses it? The answer is: YES! There is a growing number of big projects using NoSQL as main data storage … Continue reading

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[Java] Configuring Spring IoC using @Annotations

In previous articles (Spring IoC – example, Spring IoC – autowiring) I have showed you how to configure Spring IoC by writing xml code. This thing could be much simpler – you can use Java @Annotations and no xml-code to … Continue reading

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[Windows 7] Freezing Gnuplot 4.4.4

Recently I had to use my favourite plot program (Gnuplot) under Windows 7 operating system. After downloading the newest version of Gnuplot 4.4.4 (file gp444win32.zip from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/files/gnuplot/4.4.4/ ) I found it not working, which made me sad. Error reproduction: 1. Open … Continue reading

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