Hamcrest Containing Matchers

The Hamcrest 1.3 Javadoc documentation for the Matchers class adds more documentation for several of that class’s methods than were…

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Significant Software Development Developments of 2012

I have written before (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) on my biased perspective of the most significant developments in software…

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Groovy: Multiple Values for a Single Command-line Option

One of the many features that makes Groovy an attractive scripting language is its built-in command-line argument support via CliBuilder.…

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Groovy JDK (GDK): Date and Calendar

I have looked at some highly useful methods available in Groovy GDK‘s extensions to the Java JDK in blog posts…

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When Premature Optimization Isn’t

Earlier this month, I decided I wanted to write a post on not all optimization being premature optimization after hearing…

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Type-safe Empty Collections in Java

I have blogged before on the utility of the Java Collections class and have specifically blogged on Using Collections Methods…

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Guava’s Collections2: Filtering and Transforming Java Collections

One of the conveniences of Groovy is the ability to easily perform filtering and transformation operations on collections via Groovy’s…

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Guava’s Objects Class: Equals, HashCode, and ToString

If you are fortunate enough to be using JDK 7, the newly available Objects class is the obvious (at least…

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Scripted Reports with Groovy

Groovy has become my favorite scripting language and in this blog I look at some of Groovy’s features that make…

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