A quick look at the source code that I have written over the past couple of decades in various work projects and hobby projects of mine show...

So, since we do software testing, we should quit placing assert statements in production code, right? Let me count the ways in which this ...

My notes on the "Spring in Action" book by Craig Walls and Ryan Breidenbach from Manning Publications Co.

I have been vaping for about two and a half years now, and it has been one of the best things that have ever happened to me.  Here are some...

Now that Java 8 is out, I was toying in my mind with the concept of a new assertion mechanism which uses lambdas. The idea is to have a cen...

In my many years of experience in programming I have noticed that there are some programmers who refuse to use a debugger, or try to use the...

A memo to developers all over the world whose native language is not English: Sign of the Apache Web Server Folks, just so that you kno...

Nowadays the interwebz abounds with beautiful images of our Earth from orbit. Lately I have picked up the habit of trying to figure out what...

If you live outside of Europe you might be lucky enough to have no idea what this is all about, but if you live in Europe you are probably s...

This question was sighted on stackoverflow.com on Thursday, April 30, 2013.  It was deleted within 2 minutes from being posted, but not befo...