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....
Programming
Multi-line comments considered harmful
Recently on the ruby-core mailing list, someone asked why Ruby doesn’t have multi-line comments....
The case of the Null Empty Nothing
Most programming languages have a null value which is used to indicate the absence of a valid value....
Chronological pitfalls
Since the US just changed time zone, and the EU will be changing time zone soon, it seems like a good time to refresh an old posting of mine about dates and times, and how hard it can be to do the right things with them in software....
Bitten by the specialness of Java arrays
Suppose you have some text in Java that you want to manipulate....
Java annoyance: final parameters
First, the summary:...