I spent a week by the pool in Egypt with my girlfriend, relaxing and…hacking. The lack of WiFi meant I had to rely on instinct and intellect to get me through my pet project and it proved a worthy exercise … Continue reading
So being a functional programming fan I ventured into the JDK 8 binaries and started playing with the myriad of changes relating to the introduction of Lambdas in JDK 8. All my code’s now on github and it’s work in … Continue reading
Whilst many will frown at the use of the final keyword in Java code, I find it a breath of fresh air. Perhaps it’s that I tend to lean on the side of caution, conservatism and safety when it comes … Continue reading
We’ve all had the emails. X is broken in live. Blah blah blah the stack trace is: NullPointerException … Sigh you may. Curse the juniors perhaps. Neglect not the fact that these beauties pay your bills…
I cannot seem to get onlyAnalyze working for my multi-module project: regardless of what package (or pattern) I set, maven-findbugs-plugin either parses everything or nothing and it doesn’t evaluate sub-packages as I’d expect from passing it packagename.*. To prove either … Continue reading
Just some of my notes on looking over SOA related theory. What is “SOA”? Service Oriented Architecture is a means of exposing business services separately from their platform and codebase in order to provide local and/or remote invokation of said … Continue reading
I strongly believe that if you want to build awesome software, then every aspect of it needs to be as good as you want the final product to be. It is often the case that aged software shops will have … Continue reading
I was browsing reddit this afternoon and came across this post. It’s an interesting concept to explain. I mean, what is an interface in Java? I thought through the best way to explain this to someone who doesn’t understand OO … Continue reading
It doesn’t get much more amusing when you’re coding day-to-day:
I delved into the Preference API for Android this weekend. It turns out that I needed a couple of “buttons” to allow the user to go to the main screen (for various genuine reasons!). The Android API doesn’t let you … Continue reading