JDK 9 is Feature Complete!

Today’s Mark Reinhold message JDK 9 is Feature Complete — now it’s time to ramp down announces that JDK 9’s…

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Significant Software Development Developments of 2016

This post is my personal and opinionated assessment of some of the most significant developments related to software development in…

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Compare Exactly in Java Equals Methods

As I’ve worked with legacy Java code over the years, I’ve run into subtle logic and performance issues that could…

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Bash on Windows 10

Because I work with Linux and Windows based machines for development, I often find myself wishing that I had some…

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Inheriting Javadoc Method Comments

Although the JDK Tools and Utilities pages for the javadoc tool describe the rules of Javadoc method comment reuse by…

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Fixed-Point and Floating-Point: Two Things That Don’t Go Well Together

One of the more challenging aspects of software development can be dealing with floating-point numbers. David Goldberg‘s 1991 Computing Surveys…

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Salaries and Job Offerings Categorized by Programming Language

The Paysa Blog recently featured a post Silicon Valley’s Most Valuable Skills in which they looked at the most valuable…

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The Value in Project Valhalla

I have been interested in the progress of Project Valhalla for quite a while, but Brian Goetz‘s recent message “Project…

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Unintentionally Obfuscated: Dealing with Challenging Legacy Code

I recently had to deal with some legacy code with significant performance issues. It was more challenging than I thought…

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