Use of optional is optional

After the article of last week “Optional in collections” today I can’t help but talking a bit more about the…

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Optional in collections

Sometime it is argued that the type Optional is worth being used in collections. It allegedly solves the problem of…

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Some thoughts about yagni

Yagni means “You Aren’t Gonna Need It”. This is a phrase used many times to refuse the development of some…

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Teenage Sex and What the sun.misc.Unsafe Misery Teaches Us Generally

Lukas Eder wrote an article about the miseries of the proposed drop off of sun.misc.Unsafe. If you have not heard…

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Why we do not use comments

When I learned PASCAL programming at TU Budapest in 1986 there was a preprocessor developed specially for student code. It…

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If you do it do it right

This is a philosophical or ethical command. Very general. It is something like “fail fast”. The reason it came up…

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Generics Names

Generics type parameter names usually contain one, single capital case character. If you start to read the official ORACLE documentation…

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Using Junit Test Name

Name your tests When we create Junit test usually there is no practical use of the name of the method.…

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Break Single Responsibility Principle

Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) is not absolute. It exists to help the code maintainability and readability. But from time to…

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