About Jose Luis
Jose Luis is a computer scientist and professional senior software engineer with experience in a wide variety of technologies, particularly those oriented towards the JVM platform. He is mainly interested in back-end development and Agile practices that make software development both more fun and more valuable to customers.
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Static factory methods vs traditional constructors
I’ve previously talked a little bit about the Builder Pattern, a useful pattern to instantiate classes with several (possibly optional) attributes that results in easier to read, ...
The ins and outs of immutability
So in my first post I talked a little bit about the builder pattern and I mentioned a really powerful but yet overlooked concept: immutability. What is an immutable class? It’s simply ...
The builder pattern in practice
I’m not going to dive into much details about the pattern because there’s already tons of posts and books that explain it in fine detail. Instead, I’m going to tell you why and ...
When git ignores your… .gitignore?
I feel like I should start this post saying that I absolutely love git. If you’ve never heard of it, is a source control system like CVS or Subversion but, unlike those two, is a ...
