Even though I’ve been programming in Java for a few years, there are still cases when its syntax surprises me. Let me share a few examples that I thought wou... (more…)

unix-stream - Turn Java 8 Streams into Unix like pipelines...

I keep encountering situations where RDBMS users think that one second for query execution is anything near fast. Most recently, in this Stack Overflow question: Hibernate SQL In clause making CPU … (more…)

If you’ve been following the news about Oracle’s new direction for Java EE, you’ll know that one of the motivations for changing the governance and process is to move Java EE forward in a more agil… (more…)

Google recently announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android, rescuing thousands of grateful mobile developers from the purgatory of Java 7. (more…)