Oddities of Java: You can put in a lot more semicolons than necessarySome programmers really don’t like semicolons, and Java is full of them. Some programmers even write Medium articles listing the lack of…18h ago118h ago1
Mind both warnings and weak warnings in IntelliJ IDEAI was working on a Scala project the first time I noticed weak warnings in JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. I thought it was specifically a Scala…Mar 151Mar 151
Configuring warnings in Apache NetBeansLast week, I wrote an article explaining how to configure warnings in Eclipse, an integrated development environment (IDE) for Java. You…Mar 15Mar 15
How to configure warnings in EclipseOne of the nice things about using an integrated development environment (IDE) like Eclipse for Java, as opposed to using a general-purpose…Mar 9Mar 9
Comment your Java programs with purposeDid you make a New Year’s resolution to write more comments in your Java software source? Did you already drop that resolution? Like, two…Mar 6Mar 6
Forgotten DOS commands: The Type and More commandsA lot of the old DOS commands are alive and well in the Windows command line, including one command to quickly see the contents of a file…Feb 19Feb 19
A first look at a whole new paradigm for unit testing in SwiftI’ve managed to get very rusty at Swift in the months since I graduated from the Apple Developer Academy. So much so that when I started to…Feb 11Feb 11
Basics of internationalization in JavaJava is supposed to be “write once, run anywhere.” You can write and compile a Java program on, for example, a MacBook, then take that…Jan 18Jan 18
Switch expressions in Java 14 and laterThough perhaps not as traumatic as null pointer exceptions, Switch-Case fall-through has caused headaches for quite a few Java programmers…Jan 4Jan 4
Overview of the most frequently used Git commands, Part II: BranchesMerge conflicts in Git are very annoying, especially when they’re caused by some little detail no human on the team cares about. Having…Dec 30, 2024Dec 30, 2024
