Java Object Interning

Java stores the string contants appearing in the source code in a pool. In other words when you have a…

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Logging or debugging

Debugging is lame. You should debug log. If your code is structured you do not need debug logging. These are…

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Synthetic and bridge methods

If you have ever played with reflection and executed getDeclaredMethods() you may have been surprised. You may get methods that…

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Design Pattern: Immutable Embedded Builder

Last week I wrote about what makes a pattern anti-pattern. This week I present a design pattern… or wait… perhaps…

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Design Patterns: Pattern or Anti-Pattern, that is the question

I have recently encountered the wiki page Anti-pattern that has an exhaustive list of anti patterns. Some of them were…

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Never Test Logging

Technical logging is usually not tested. As commentator write on stack overflow: I practice TDD/BDD pretty religiously and I almost…

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Use Java annotation deprecated the right way

There is hardly anything more infuriating that seeing a method @Deprecated without a proper documentation. I feel lost. Should I…

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