This post was originally published as part of the Java Advent series. If you like it, please spread the word by sharing, tweeting, FB, G+ and so on! Want to write for the Java Advent blog? We are looking for … Continue reading
Pe baza formularului: La 100% din oameni le-a placut editia 40 de la JUG 100% din oameni ar vrea sa se mai tina lighgtning talk-uri la JUG Multumim prezentatorilor!
I’m announcing a small (but quickly growing) project here: the Java Advent Calendar. What is it? To put it simply: a blog which will publish each year 24 high-quality Java related articles between the 1st and 24th of December. It … Continue reading
Lista prezentarilor: Claudia Dumitras – Android Near-Field Communication Dan Dromereschi – AChartEngine – a charting library for Android (open source) Florin Bunau – Tools in the box Gabriel Ciuloaica – Lightweight Rest Services Partac Constantin – Adopt a JSR Sa … Continue reading
From the RABS blog: We invite you to the Global Day of Coderetreat in Cluj-Napoca! Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in … Continue reading
This article was originally published in the 6th edition of TodaySoftMag in Romanian. Reprinted here with the permission of the author / magazine. You can see a quick talk about the article in Romanian on Youtube. Writing beautiful code – … Continue reading
Testing multi-threaded code is hard. The main problem is that you invoke your assertions either too soon (and they fail for no good reason) or too late (in which case the test runs for a long time, frustrating you). A … Continue reading
In the spirit of “better late than never”, here are the pictures from the Eclipse DemoCamp held on June 15th: The speaker was Tom Schindl and you can find the presentation slides on his blog. My main takeaway was that … Continue reading
Google Protocol Buffers (shortened protobuf) is data (de)serialization with good speed, size and cross-platform support (it supports Java, C++ and Python out of the box). It can also handle different versions of the same message (as in: old and new … Continue reading
In some (rare) cases you might find yourself in the situation that you managed to crash the JVM itself. I most recently managed this by setting the name of a ThreadGroup to null. In these cases it is useful to … Continue reading