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Java 17 – Sealed classes
Prior to Sealed Classes feature there were two ways a developer could prevent a class to be extended: by declaring the class as final where no one can extend this class. public final class MyClass { }...
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Book Review: The Psychology of Money
The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel is a must-read book on personal finance. A lot of times decisions on personal finances, investments are done using the historical data of the market analyzed...
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Book Review: The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
The book The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck by Mark Manson is a book about managing your problems and failures. I can aptly call this book a Problem Management manual. The author talks about looking...
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Book Review: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life
This book is all about secrets to longevity i.e living longer. The authors do a case study of people living in a place called Okinawa in Japan which has a higher average life expectancy than Japan and...
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Book Review: The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant
My cousin gifted me this book which I long wished to read. This book is a collection of Naval Ravikant’s ideas, and thoughts he posted on multiple places like Twitter, his podcasts, interviews, and...
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Book Review: Everything Is Out of Syllabus
Everything Is Out of Syllabus is a book by Varun Duggirala who has worked in MTV and other media houses in the entertainment and media industry. In this book, he is trying to list out his experiences,...
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Book Review: When Breath Becomes Air
When breath becomes air is a book by Paul Kalanithi about his life, experiences, and his ordeal with a terminal illness. The book is very emotional, especially the Epilogue written by his wife. Tears...
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Book Review: Show Your Work
The author Austin Kleon shares 10 ways to make your work visible to the world in his book Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered. The book is targeted toward all forms of...
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Book Review: Steal Like an Artist
The author Austin Kleon shares 10 ideas for a content creator creating content in his book Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. The author’s advice is relevant to all...
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Book Review: Make Time
Make Time is a collection of tactics for getting the most important work done daily. It’s not about making your schedule super busy. It’s not about tactics for getting a lot of work done in a day....
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Book Review: Rework
Rework, authored by David Heinemeier Hansson(DHH) and Jason Fried, is a collection of business principles providing guidance at the individual as well as at the organizational level. The book has lots...
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Integrate with OpenAI(ChatGPT) Completion API in Java using WebClient
By now you all would have heard about OpenAI and played with its famous product ChatGPT. OpenAI also provides APIs which can be used to integrate features like text completion, code generation, image...
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In my previous post I showed how you can integrate with Completion API. The completion API doesnt support the ChatpGPT model. The ChatGPT model is supported in the Chat completion API. In this post we...
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Convert XML to HTML using XSLT in Java
In this post I will show you how to convert XML to HTML using XSLT in Java using Saxon HE version 11 library We will add the dependency to our pom: <dependency>...
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Setting value of XSL parameter xsl:param in Saxon Java API
In one of my previous posts I showed you how to generate HTML from XML data using XSLT. At times you would need to pass certain parameters to the XSLT and use the value of that parameter in generating...
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The correct way to do @Async in Java Spring based applications
Spring provides an annotation @Async to run tasks in a separate thread. In Spring boot applications we can enable asynchronous tasks by adding the annotation @EnableAsync to any of the Spring...
View ArticleGotcha: Using Apache Commons StringUtils.isNumeric
StringUtils java class in Apache commons library provides a method isNumeric to check if given sequence of characters contains digits only. But this is not a sure shot way to check for numbers because...
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Unveiling the Magic of Java ServiceLoader API: Building Modular and...
In the vast realm of Java programming, developers are often faced with the challenge of creating modular, extensible, and maintainable applications. As software systems grow in complexity, the need to...
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Book Review: Deep Work
The author, Cal Newport, in the book Deep Work throws light on two types of work anyone can do: Highly attentive work which requires a high level of attention which he calls as “Deep Work”. Examples...
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Book Review: Superlife: The 5 Simple Fixes That Will Make You Healthy, Fit,...
In the first part of the book Superlife the author Darin Olien explains the 5 life forces which are the driving factors to lead a healthy and fit life. The 5 life forces he talks about are: Nutrition...
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