The sad truth is the better we get at writing code, the less fun it becomes. We learn about the SOLID principles, immutability, abstraction, composition, and maintainable code. But when we apply these techniques in a cu... (more…)

Java 9 introduces unified logging, a central mechanism configurable with -Xlog to observe class loading, threading, garbage collector, module system, etc. (more…)

This post provides an overview of Gradle’s Java 9 support, touching on runtime, cross-compilation, MRJARs, and Jigsaw modules support. We’ve fielded lots of questions since Java 9 was released last month, and decided it best to answer here. (more…)

In Part 1 of this tutorial we created a Property-based test (PBT) from a normal JUnit test with basic types. Now let us extend the domain object PostalParcel with a list of Products. All examples a… (more…)

After working with Teamed and practicing PDDfor more than a year, I was wondering how the methodology would work with a fresh project. I had never worked ona... (more…)