Kotlin From The Trenches,In the last few years, the growth of hype around the Kotlin programming language has been about the same as that of the Bitcoin rate. This close attention ...

Robustness principle, 'Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept' This wise advice, called also Robustness principle or Postel's law, turns out to be really u...

Android App Release,Hello all, just wanted to share that I have officially released an app for the Android platform. Cred Container is a utility-based application allowing users to...

On the subtleties of OOP,It is not a overstatement to say that I am an enthusiast when it comes to object orientation. A well crafted object oriented system is a piece of art. Howe...

Assertions considered Harmful,Assertions are the go-to checking mechanism in unit tests. However, when applied to testing interfaces, specifically GUIs, I consider them to be toxic...

Java Exception Handling – IllegalMonitorStateException,Moving along through our in-depth Java Exception Handling series, today we’ll get into the IllegalMonitorStateException. Th...

Navigating the uncharted Stream, Wrong bend of the river When I left school, Java 6 had just been released and wasn’t really integrated into the school curriculums yet. But I was ...

The state of Java and the JVM ecosystem in 2017, Introduction Java was initially developed in 1995 and it has come a very long way. Many of you might already have experience with J...

Challenge: Write your worst program,Hi everyone, As you may know, there is no way in JavaScript to determine whether or not a number is a multiple of another number, so I wrote thi...

Groovy does not always resolve methods like Java,This is about a bug (or feature?) in Groovy and also about the mindset for learning new programming languages. Recently, looking at...

Being a Junior Software Developer,Hey! I am a junior software developer working with Java 8 and Spring (Boot) Framework. It has been around two/three months since I started. Time t...

Challenge: Write a program that never stops,Write an endless loop, write some confusing gotos... The rules are simple: Write a program that never stops. Language: Any. Try to keep ...