Exiting the Swirling Void

Before you build some software you’re often faced with the swirling void of possibilities. This can lead to: Options paralysis…

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The Perils of the Shared Jenkins and Making Decisions

You may be thinking of sharing a Jenkins server, perhaps you’re worried about: Who has the time to do admin…

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Two Common Concurrency Bugs

As a Baeldung editor, I had the pleasure working with an author on an article on Common Concurrency Pitfalls in…

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Patching Null++

Here’s a curiosity. In my current project we’re looking at making HTTP PATCH requests. If we’re strictly following the REST…

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So You’re Going to Make a Framework?

Don’t. Seriously don’t just make a framework. Here’s why your framework will fail: You don’t know what the future requirements…

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Save Water: Have Smaller Baths

Containers are getting smaller. Our programming needs to shift to compensate. We used to be able to write code that…

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It’s a Bad Solution to a Problem We Don’t Have

What’s the worst sort of code? Don’t say JavaScript. It’ll grow on you. Nope, not Perl either. Ok, so Perl…

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The Universal Coding Standard

Warning: there’s no way the following can live up to the title Your implementation should be: Clear Distinct Well-Organised Clear…

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First Past the Post

Often, we write code to work out the first answer of a bunch of available ones. Let’s look at that…

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