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Core Java
Lazy Loading and Caching via Sticky Cactoos Primitives
You obviously know what lazy loading is, right? And you no doubt know about caching. To my knowledge, there is…
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Core Java
Streams vs. Decorators
The Streams API was introduced in Java 8, together with lambda expressions, just a few years ago. I, as a disciplined…
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Core Java
Java 9: The Good, The Bad, and Private Interface Methods
Java 9 was released a few weeks ago. Check the release notes, they include many interesting features. However, I think…
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Core Java
RAII in Java
Resource Acquisition Is Initialization (RAII) is a design idea introduced in C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup for exception-safe resource management. Thanks…
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Agile
How to Manage a Manager?
No secret, we you all have managers. Some of them are great, while many are simply idiots. What do you do if…
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Core Java
Object-Oriented Declarative Input/Output in Cactoos
Cactoos is a library of object-oriented Java primitives we started to work on just a few weeks ago. The intent…
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Software Development
Gluten-Free Management Recipes
We live in the era of organic food, eco-friendly toilets, zero-emission cars, and harassment-free offices. Our management practices have to…
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Software Development
Why Do You Contribute to Open Source?
You probably remember my half-a-year-old article: Why Don’t You Contribute to Open Source?. I said there that if you don’t…
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Software Development
Any Program Has an Unlimited Number of Bugs
This may sound strange, but I will prove it: no matter how big or stable a piece of software is,…
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