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Enterprise Java
Twitter REST API from Scala and Java using signpost
If you’ve read some other articles on this blog you might know that I like creating visualizations of various datasets.…
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Core Java
Java Hidden code
Sometime ago I came across the issue of invisible characters in Strings. These can really cause confusion because they are…
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Enterprise Java
Spring 3.1 Caching and @CacheEvict
My last blog demonstrated the application of Spring 3.1’s @Cacheable annotation that’s used to mark methods whose return values will be stored…
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Career
Does It Get Boring To Be A Programmer?
Programmers are people who create computer programs. (I’ll skip the discussion whether it should be “programmer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “coder” or…
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Core Java
Duck typing in Java ? Well, not exactly
According to Wikipedia duck typing is: style of dynamic typing in which an object’s methods and properties determine the valid…
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Enterprise Java
Apache Wicket: Remember Me functionality
It is quite common in web applications to have “Remember Me” functionality that allows user to be automatically logged in…
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Core Java
Building OpenJDK on Windows
Doing some experiments, I found that it often useful to have JDK source code available in hand to make some…
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Core Java
Java Annotations – Retention
Consider a Java annotation: public @interface AnAnnotaton { } A class with this annotation applied on it: @AnAnnotaton class AnAnnotatedClass{…
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