Design Patterns Are Not Outdated
A comment left on my answer to a question over on Stack Overflow has me a little worked up. I've seen this meme come out of programmers more and more... more »
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My days at Devoxx: 2009 Conference Review
Reviews and comments on the presentations I attended at Devoxx 2009 in Antwerp: the conference at which closures made it back into Java 7!
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Devoxx 2009 summary
Just my summary of Devoxx 2009...
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Serialize java Properties directly to and from a String
The Java Properties class provides a great, albeit simple, data serialization model that requires no knowledge of XML to xml to utilize. Typically,... more »
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lambdaj 2.1 improves its closures and more
The release 2.1 of lambdaj has been just released. Here you can find a resume of how its closures syntax has been improved and the other features... more »
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Scala Basics - Byte-code Fancypants
David Pollak makes an introduction to Scala showing how basic language constructs like boxing, generics, structural types, tail calls, and others, are... more »
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Logging on a Per-Thread Basis
As far as I know, most of the logging facility configurations enable you to specify the maximum size of a log file, how many will roll, where data is... more »
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Do Your Iterators Always Fail-Fast?
The iterators of the Collection implementations of the Java runtime throw a ConcurrentModificationException[1] when they detect that another thread... more »
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Mocking static methods: the road to Hell...
Dependency Injection is not about testing: it is about good, decoupled design and reusable units. Static calls represent hidden connections between... more »
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