The programmer's notes

Preface In my previous  article  I explained how and why to use enums instead of  switch/case control structure in Java code. Here I wil...

Problem and  its solution Switch/case is the common control structure implemented in most imperative programming languages. Switch is con...

I have written a lot of blog posts that contain code snippets  in several programming languages (mostly Java). I separated each code snippet...

Today I asked myself: what does name "Gradle" mean. I asked Google and here are the first 2 answers: Answer #1 It's ...

DB #42 or how to choose technology :) We have to implement a new feature. No matter what kind of feature it is. Well, we have to expose...

Yesterday I had a discussion with my friend and he said that according to his opinion try/catch statement in java is very performance expen...

Introduction Static method format()  that was added to class java.lang.String in java 5 became popular and widely used method that repla...

Motivation Winzip can create self-extracting executable. Actually this is the unzip utility together with content of zip file that is bei...

I have been developing code professionally for the last 17 years. Most of these years I used MS Windows because this operating system is m...

Analysis JavaScript MVC frameworks became very popular during the last 5 years. Naturally there are a lot of such frameworks. I spent mos...

Very often we check computer clock using either System.currentTimeMillis() or System.nanoTime() . Often we call these methods to check how ...

Annotations introduced to Java 5.0 became a very well known and widely used language feature. There are more or less "standard" s...