What does a developer spend his time on? Writing code, debugging, thinking and communicating with colleagues (that includes meetings). Anything that is beyond these activities is unnecessary overhead (some meetingsContinue reading
“Generics are erased during compilation” is common knowledge (well, type parameters and arguments are actually the ones erased). That happens due to “type erasure”. But it’s wrong that everything specifiedContinue reading
DSLs are a common thing in the programming world nowadays. Many frameworks and tools decide to build a DSL for their…specific things. Builds tools are the primary candidates, but testingContinue reading
Do you remember that time when you spent a whole day trying to fix a problem, only to realize that you have mistyped a configuration setting? Yes. And it wasContinue reading
The other day I gave a talk on a tech conference about my experience with Scala. Ironically, just two weeks after I wrote that I don’t like Scala, I startedContinue reading
Load-testing is not trivial. It’s often not just about downloading JMeter or Gatling, recording some scenarios and then running them. Well, it might be just that, but you are luckyContinue reading
Several months ago I created the EasyCamera project (GitHub). As there has been a lot of interest, I just released it to Maven central, so that you don’t need toContinue reading
We all know the C-major scale: do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do. But what’s behind it? And how many other scales there are? It’s complicated. Let me do a brief introduction into the theory first,Continue reading
Does this piece of code look ok to you? Looks good – it opens a connection, reads from it, closes the input stream, releases the connection, and that’s it. ButContinue reading
Less than two years ago I wrote about the first version of my algorithm for music composition. Since then computoser.com got some interest and the algorithm was incrementally improved. Now,Continue reading