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Core Java
OOP Alternative to Utility Classes
A utility class (aka helper class) is a “structure” that has only static methods and encapsulates no state. StringUtils, IOUtils,…
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Software Development
Bad program structure: the complectation
Degrees of badness Many programmers consider source code dependencies either circular or non-circular, with circular dependencies representing The Greatest Imaginable…
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Career
Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself
Here’s the thing… You could have been exactly where you want to be right now. You could have gotten the…
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Software Development
Migrate your project from SVN to Git Stash in few steps
Step by step guide on how to migrate your SVN repository with all its history to the Stash, the Atlassian…
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Software Development
Look no Further! The Final Answer to “Where to Put Generated Code?”
This recent question on Stack Overflow made me think. Why does jOOQ suggest to put generated code under “/target” and…
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Software Development
Fun Ways to Teach Kids to Code
Following up on my Why We Need to Teach Kid to Code, here are some fun ways to help them…
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Core Java
Mockito 101
Mockito is a mocking framework that lets you write beatiful tests with clean and simple API. It biases toward minimal…
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Software Development
High availability design
If you have ever travelled in an Indian Railways you would have noticed that the capacity for which the train…
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Core Java
JVM PermGen – where art thou?
This post covers some basics of JVM memory structure and quickly peeks into PermGen to find out where it has disappeared since advent…
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