My Problem With Your Interviews

This article comes right after Facebook rejected me after 3 phone interviews, but it is not going to be a…

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State Does Not Belong In The Code

What is “state” in your web application? It’s the data that gets stored (regardless of the destination – memory, database,…

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Send A Relevant Dilbert Strip To Your Boss

The Dilbert comics is just 2 years younger than me, which means there are thousands of strips. Most of them…

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Why I Like The Verbosity of Java

Java is too verbose, they say. You can find comparisons of Hello World programs that take 2 lines in ruby…

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Fix That Code Immediately!

You are working on that fresh project and you see a bad piece of code somewhere. The wrong way to…

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The Default Use Case

You should have a default use case (or a small set of them). No matter what are you making –…

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Change Without Redeploying With Eclipse And Tomcat

They say developing Java is slow because of the bloated application servers – you have to redeploy the application to…

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Avoid Lazy JPA Collections

Hibernate (and actually JPA) has collection mappings: @OneToMany, @ManyToMany, @ElementCollection. All of these are by default lazy. This means the…

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Getters and Setters Are Not Evil

Every now and then some OOP purist comes and tells us that getters and setters are evil, because they break…

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