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Do you want to know what is the best investment you can make with your time and money? Knowledge As a software developer you should be constantly acquiring new skills. This is the best way to advance your career and enjoy the rewards (monetary, emotional etc.). Towards that direction you should be reading books, devouring technical articles and staying informed ...

Raw data from database rows and tables does not provide so much insight to human readers. Instead, humans are much more likely to see data patterns if we perform some kind of aggregation on the data before it is being presented to us. A pivot table is a specific form of aggregation where we can apply operations like sorting, averaging, ...

Source Code Generation is not Good The most important statement in this topic before we would even start to discuss anything else is that source code generation is a suboptimal solution. It may be needed and it may be a viable solution, but whenever source code is generated it could have been done some way better. It is just that ...

It has been proposed that a method named isSameContents() be added to the Files class in JDK 11 via JDK-8202285 [“(fs) Add a method to Files for comparing file contents”]. Proposed by Joe Wang, this new method is “intended to be an extension to the existing isSameFile method since it stopped short of comparing the content to answer the query ...

Waiting for your code to compile? Trying to find the root cause of the current issue you’ve encountered? Here are a few Gifs that can help you cope with the situation Picture the following scenario. It’s Friday morning and you’ve just sat down with your hot cup of Java, ready to write some code. you fire up your environment, and ...

TestContainers is just awesome! It provides a very convenient way to start up and CLEANLY tear down docker containers in JUnit tests. This feature is very useful for integration testing of applications against real databases and any other resource for which a docker image is available. My objective is to demonstrate a sample test for a JPA based Spring Boot ...

Side projects are the things you do at home, after work, for your own “entertainment”, or to satisfy your desire to learn new stuff, in case your workplace doesn’t give you that opportunity (or at least not enough of it). Side projects are also a way to build stuff that you think is valuable but not necessarily “commercialisable”. Many side ...

A few years back I dipped into some Scala as a hobby language. But, one aspect I found challenging was just getting my head around Scala syntax again. Some of it, yeah the basic stuff can be counter intuitive depending on your perspective. 1. Method / Function Definition Typing on the right rather than the left. Consider this simple function definition: def ...

My previous post focused on the Files.isSameContent() method that is likely to be added to JDK 11. JDK-8201276 [“(fs) Add methods to Files for reading/writing a string from/to a file”] mentions this new method and also highlights the methods that are the subjects of this post: readString(Path) readString(Path, Charset) writeString(Path, CharSequence, OpenOption...) writeString(Path, CharSequence, Charset, OpenOption...) Joe Wang recently posted ...

Streams of primitive types (IntStream, etc.) provide a summaryStatistics() method that can be used to get multiple statistical properties of a stream (minimum value, average value, etc.). Assume we have a list of people. Our goal is to get the minimum and maximum age of the people in the list using streams. The problem here is that the computation of ...