Building a Kotlin fat JAR with IntelliJ IDEA

…and with Kotlin scripting, not Groovy.

2019-06-20 · 5 min

Java time conversion madness

Lotus Notes is an old piece of software....

2018-04-06 · 10 min

Java file I/O in 2014

There are lots of articles about file handling in Java....

2014-03-11 · 4 min

Sometimes ORM is not the answer

Earlier this week, I wrote some data pump code to move information between DB2 and Domino, filtering and cleaning it on the way....

2012-05-18 · 3 min

Java: Call by reference, or call by value?

My attention was drawn to a trainwreck of a discussion on Reddit, which was triggered by another trainwreck of a discussion on an enterprise Java community web site....

2011-01-18 · 10 min

Multi-line comments considered harmful

Recently on the ruby-core mailing list, someone asked why Ruby doesn’t have multi-line comments....

2010-12-31 · 3 min

Bitten by the specialness of Java arrays

Suppose you have some text in Java that you want to manipulate....

2009-02-18 · 1 min

Java annoyance: final parameters

First, the summary:...

2008-08-26 · 5 min