Learning in a Result Oriented Software Development environment
This article is being written in context of Software development, but should be applicable to all areas where ever there is human involvement. Looking at the current scenario, all of us are becoming...
View ArticleAre you running 10kms for the first time?
I always say this: “Running 10K is easier said than done”, this can be compared with “Test Driven Development(TDD) is easier said than done”. The reason I say this is that both Running and TDD can be...
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Book Review: Clean Code by Robert Martin
Clean Code is all about the code already written, about the code you write and about the code to be written. If you are fan of Robert Martin’s books and his articles then you wouldn’t have missed this...
View ArticleWhats in store for Project Lambda in Java 8?
There are lot of things happening in the Project Lambda branch of JDK 8 and these are quite significant for Java programmers. I know lot of Anti-Java people would criticize these changes claiming them...
View ArticleVarious API and language enhancements as part of Java 7
I believe most of the Java Developers are aware of the latest Java release i.e Java 7. Lot of us are disappointed about quite a few important features being deferred to Java 8, but its really good to...
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Book Review: Scala for the Impatient
The book covers almost all of the concepts in Scala in a very concise format. More emphasis on learning by doing. Lot of exercise problems at the end of each chapter. It is highly recommended to try...
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Useful Audio Podcasts for Software developers
I have been listening to few technical podcasts for software developers and thought of sharing them for the benefit of the readers. Software Engineering Radio: Very useful podcast for software...
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Coding Horror Book on HyperInk
Jeff Atwood announced about his new book its actually a book made from his blog posts on Coding Horror. I immediately tried to purchase it from HyperInk but due to some payment glitches I couldnt make...
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Simple example to illustrate Chain Of Responsibility Design Pattern
GoF Design pattern book states the intent of Chain of Responsibility pattern as: Avoid coupling the sender of a request to the receiver by giving more than one object a chance to handle the request....
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Book Review: Oracle ADF Real World Developer’s Guide
Oracle Adf Real World Developer’s Guide is the latest book on ADF Framework developed by Oracle. ADF Framework provides declarative way to develop Java based Enterprise Applications. There are a few...
View ArticleUnsupportedOperation exception while using Map in Java
You must have encountered UnsupportedOperation exception while using Map, whose stacktrace starts with: Caused by: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException at...
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Book Review: NoSQL Distilled
Note: This was reviewed by me here first, before reproducing the same content in the blog post below. More of my similar review can be found here. NoSQL Distilled This is a must read book for all those...
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Using ROWNUM with ORDER BY in Oracle SQL
Lot of times you have tried to use ROWNUM clause along along with the ORDER BY clause and must have been treated with a different output than you expected. You would expect the ROWNUM to be applied...
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Using JAXB to generate Java Objects from XML document
Quite sometime back I had written about Using JAXB to generate XML from the Java, XSD. And now I am writing how to do the reverse of it i.e generating Java objects from the XML document. There was one...
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Finding factorial of a number in Java
If you have tried to find a factorial using int as the data type, its most likely that you will soon get wrong outputs because the factorial value overflows the size of the int. One approach to over...
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Using BULK COLLECT INTO construct in Oracle PLSQL
At times when you are programming in PLSQL you would want to fetch multiple records into an ARRAY or some collection. One approach to do is to loop through the result of the SQL query and then keep...
View ArticleUsing Lambda Expression to sort a List in Java 8 using Netbeans Lambda Support
As part of JSR 335 Lambda expressions are being introduced to the Java language from Java 8 onwards and this is a major change in the Java language. If you want to learn more about the what Lambda...
View ArticleExtracting the elements of the Java Collection- The Java 8 way
We all have extensively used Collection classes like List, Map and their derived versions. And each time we used them we had to iterate through them to either find some element or update the elements...
View ArticleA look at Netbeans support for upcoming language enhancements in Java 8
While I was working on the samples for this post using the Nebeans nightly builds with support for Lambda Expressions downloaded from here. I found that the IDE gave good suggestions for converting the...
View ArticleIntroduction to Default Methods (Defender Methods) in Java 8
We all know that interfaces in Java contain only method declarations and no implementations and any non-abstract class implementing the interface had to provide the implementation. Lets look at an...
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