JavaOne 2014 Observations by Proxy

I wasn’t able to attend JavaOne this year, but have been happy to see some online resources covering what happened…

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ChoiceFormat: Numeric Range Formatting

The Javadoc for the ChoiceFormat class states that ChoiceFormat “allows you to attach a format to a range of numbers”…

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Date/Time Formatting/Parsing, Java 8 Style

Since nearly the beginning of Java, Java developers have worked with dates and times via the java.util.Date class (since JDK…

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Big Java News in Late Summer 2014

As is typical when JavaOne is imminent, there has been much big news in the Java community recently. This post…

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Java Numeric Formatting

I can think of numerous times when I have seen others write unnecessary Java code and I have written unnecessary…

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jinfo: Command-line Peeking at JVM Runtime Configuration

In several recent blogs (in my reviews of the books Java EE 7 Performance Tuning and Optimization and WildFly Performance…

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Autoboxing, Unboxing, and NoSuchMethodError

J2SE 5 introduced numerous features to the Java programming language. One of these features is autoboxing and unboxing, a feature…

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Books That Have Most Influenced My Software Development Career

I have read numerous books on software development and have learned valuable things from most of them, but a small…

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Applying S.T.O.P. To Software Development

The acronym STOP (or STOPP) is used by several organizations (United States Army, Hunter’s Ed, Mountain Rescue, Search and Rescue,…

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