I’ve been meaning to write something like this for a bit. This post isn’t for you experts: You’ll understand this all already. I’m noting this here because I haven’t y… (more…)

We all love binary search. Straightforward, easy to understand algorithm; finds your number in a sorted array in an appealing O(log n) time. But is it that simple to implement? (more…)

This blog post is a reminder that you should make sure that all your builds in the Java ecosystem access the artifact repositories (e.g. Maven Central) via HTTPS instead of HTTP. This often just means replacing the ‘http:’ in repository URLs with ‘https:’... (more…)

A new JEP proposes enhancements to lambda functionality, including better disambiguation, use of the underscore for unused parameters, and shadowing of outer variables. Although these changes would bring lambdas in Java closer to other languages', the com...

In this article, I am going to show you how to develop and run a simple Spring web application using Java 8 without installing Java 8 on your local machine. Python developers use virtual... (more…)