Software Development Lessons Learned from Consumer Experience

Because we software developers are also inevitably consumers of others’ software applications, we are undoubtedly influenced in the creation of…

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The JDK 8 SummaryStatistics Classes

Three of the new classes introduced in JDK 8 are DoubleSummaryStatistics, IntSummaryStatistics, and LongSummaryStatistics of the java.util package. These classes…

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Displaying Paths in Ant

In the blog posts Java and Ant Properties Refresher and Ant <echoproperties /> Task, I wrote about how being able…

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Validating XML Against XSD(s) in Java

There are numerous tools available for validating an XML document against an XSD. These include operating system scripts and tools…

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The End of Google Code

In the 21 January 2014 post Google Code is dead, Evert Pot referenced the post A Change to Google Code…

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Excellent! Groovy Intends to Join Apache Software Foundation

In the post “Total Bummer: Pivotal Drops Groovy“, I briefly wrote about Pivotal’s decision to drop Groovy and hoped that…

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JDK 8 Streams and Grouping

I wrote about the powerful features of using JDK 8‘s Streams with Java collections in the post Stream-Powered Collections Functionality…

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Joining Strings in JDK 8

JDK 8 introduced language features such as lambda expressions, streams, and even the new Date/Time API that will change the…

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Determining File Types in Java

Programmatically determining the type of a file can be surprisingly tricky and there have been many content-based file identification approaches…

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