NetBeans Usability Tips

Java IDEs have come a long way since the days of JBuilder (though JBuilder seemed like a welcome advance at…

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JavaFX-Based SimpleDateFormat Demonstrator

One of the things that can be a little tricky for developers new to Java or even for experienced Java…

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NetBeans 7.1: Create a Custom Hint

I have talked about some of my favorite NetBeans hints in the posts Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code…

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JUnit and Hamcrest: Improving On assertEquals

In my blog post Are Static Imports Becoming Increasingly Accepted in Java?, I discussed the increasing use of static imports…

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Are Static Imports Becoming Increasingly Accepted in Java?

There was a time when the use of the word ain’t was widely considered unacceptable, at least in polite society.…

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Java 7’s Support for Suppressed Exceptions

A new constructor and two new methods were added to the Throwable class (parent of Exception and Error classes) in…

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Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code

In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on…

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Unit Testing is a Means to an End

Most professional software developers these days understand the importance and value of writing and using unit tests. A nice summary…

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ToString: Hexadecimal Representation of Identity Hash Codes

I have blogged before on the handy Apache Commons ToStringBuilder and I was recently asked what the seemingly cryptic text…

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