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Core Java
JavaOne 2014 Observations by Proxy
I wasn’t able to attend JavaOne this year, but have been happy to see some online resources covering what happened…
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Core Java
ChoiceFormat: Numeric Range Formatting
The Javadoc for the ChoiceFormat class states that ChoiceFormat “allows you to attach a format to a range of numbers”…
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Core Java
Date/Time Formatting/Parsing, Java 8 Style
Since nearly the beginning of Java, Java developers have worked with dates and times via the java.util.Date class (since JDK…
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Core Java
Big Java News in Late Summer 2014
As is typical when JavaOne is imminent, there has been much big news in the Java community recently. This post…
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Core Java
Java Numeric Formatting
I can think of numerous times when I have seen others write unnecessary Java code and I have written unnecessary…
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Core Java
jinfo: Command-line Peeking at JVM Runtime Configuration
In several recent blogs (in my reviews of the books Java EE 7 Performance Tuning and Optimization and WildFly Performance…
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Core Java
Autoboxing, Unboxing, and NoSuchMethodError
J2SE 5 introduced numerous features to the Java programming language. One of these features is autoboxing and unboxing, a feature…
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Software Development
Books That Have Most Influenced My Software Development Career
I have read numerous books on software development and have learned valuable things from most of them, but a small…
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Software Development
Applying S.T.O.P. To Software Development
The acronym STOP (or STOPP) is used by several organizations (United States Army, Hunter’s Ed, Mountain Rescue, Search and Rescue,…
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