Java KeyStores—the gory details,Originally posted on my blog Java KeyStores are used to store key material and associated certificates in an encrypted and integrity protected fash...

How Kotlin Calamity Devours Your Java Apps Like Lightning?,Originally published on Hackernoon. I hear what you are saying. There is that buzz around Android actively adopting Kotli...

What Is Null? (Baby Don't Hurt Me),There are two kinds of programmers out there. Those that have had null-related errors in their programs and those that are just starting their ca...

RxJava combineLatest quick example by Kotlin,RxJava's combineLatest is very convenient but I can use it difficultly because it has many overloads. So I wrote the code snippet for c...

sortpom-maven-plugin vs tidy-maven-plugin,Hi folks, i have been asking me what the pro and cons from that two maven plugins are. Can anybody help me. P.S.: I asked this question on...

Go for Java developers (or is the Java concurrency that bad?!),I am by no means an expert in Go, indeed quite the opposite. I am currently trying to get familiar with it. I started...

Encapsulate state and expose behavior when writing object-oriented code,A-PIE. You ever heard of that? For some reason my mouth is watering. A-PIE is not only a delicious baked des...

The Builder Pattern in Java, and Dart Cascades,Object construction is something that everyone will have to do in a language that has object-oriented paradigms. However, when your o...

A small piece of code which is going to inspire you to try out Kotlin,A few months ago I’ve started to discover Jetbrains’ Kotlin language which gave a good impression to me. I ...

Avoid getters and setters whenever possible, Noooo!!! Don't click that generate getters and setters option!!! I like the rule: 'Don't use accessors and mutators.' Like any good rul...

Modernizing Java - A language feature wish list (Part 2),In this second part of the 'Modernizing Java' series, we will consider language features from C#, JavaScript (ES6) and othe...

ELI5: Why cast to an interface?,So, I am super new to OOP and Java--specifically, just finishing up my first semester of it. I understand interfaces are akin to contracts, and unde...