I just finished reading the What the best leaders do article, written by Claire Lew and I mostly agree with her thoughts about leadership. First time I saw myself in a leading position was about 8 years ago and I was terrible at it. For me to be a leader was the same as to be a … Continue reading Thoughts about leading
Category: Programming
Android String.format disaster
I had a horrible bug in the Brainy Cell game. I used the String.format method without specifying the locale, despite all the warning spit out by Android Studio. I actually have a good excuse why I missed this issue: I implemented the whole game in about one week. The thing is that I load the levels … Continue reading Android String.format disaster
Spring Boot WAR in IntelliJ
Let's say we have a Maven Spring Boot WAR project that we want to debug as fat JAR. This works out of the box in Eclipse if we add the following dependencies: Sadly in IntelliJ this won't work. When you try to run your application from the IDE it will crash because of missing dependencies. … Continue reading Spring Boot WAR in IntelliJ
Java Integer Object Dangers
Java has two integer types: primitive and object. Integer types are often used when serialization is an issue. For example in case of JPA entities you will probably want to use the Integer type. The problem with this type is that it's confusing. It looks like a primitive but it's NOT! Let's take this simple … Continue reading Java Integer Object Dangers
Kotlin – first impressions
I just played a little bit with Kotlin, a fairly new programming language, that will be the default language for the Android platform. My first impression is good. It seems like a decent language with nice syntax but I won't use it for my personal projects in the near future. Of course if somebody pays … Continue reading Kotlin – first impressions
Implicit programming
I just read this article from DHH and I must confess, it has a point, although, I am a strong believer in explicit programming or as I like to call it idiot proof programming. This is because I mostly worked on large or very large projects with lots of team members and of course junior programmers. … Continue reading Implicit programming
Modern Compiler Construction
With dedication to the Microsoft haters, here is an introduction to Modern Compiler Construction by the great Anders Heljsberg, a Microsoft employee, who is smarter than most of the numbnuts commenting on forums. https://youtu.be/wSdV1M7n4gQ?t=759
