Announcement of My Session at JCON Düsseldorf
On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, I will give a session at JCON in Düsseldorf, Germany. The 4-day conference will take place inside the UCI KINOWELT. My session—on the second day…
More Articles Published in the Meantime
Since my last blog post—there haven’t been any lately due to my workload—several articles have been published in German Java magazines: “Effektiv, effizient und sicher – Theorie und Praxis von Zufallszahlengeneratoren”…
Another Article Published in JavaSPEKTRUM
On January 25, 2019, another article of mine has been published in the German Java magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, issue 01/2019. Its title is “Vom Mauerblümchen zur Wunderpille – Der Einsatz von enums…
My Article Published in JAVAPRO
On December 18, 2018, the German Java magazine JAVAPRO, issue 03/2018, has published the first part of my three-part article series, titled “Deep-Dive into Annotations”. This first part covers the…
Announcement of My Talk on Concurrency in Java
On Monday, January 28, 2019, I will deliver a speech on concurrency in Java at Guild42.ch in Berne. I will give an overview of the Java Concurrency API and demonstrate…
My First Article Published in JavaSPEKTRUM
On November 30, 2018, the renowned German Java magazine JavaSPEKTRUM, issue 06/2018, has published my first article, titled “Garbage-Collector unter Lupe – Objektreferenzen in Java” (“Garbage Collector Under the Microscope—Object References…
The Fork/Join Framework
Introduction In this blog post, I want to introduce the fork/join framework that has been part of Java since version 7. In order to demonstrate its great advantages, I set…
A New and Consistent Way of Implementing equals and hashCode | Part 2
Introduction In Part 1 of this topic, I’ve shown you several ways of implementing equals and hashCode. I wasn’t able to conclude with a definite answer to the question which way…
A New and Consistent Way of Implementing equals and hashCode | Part 1
Introduction My first two blog posts on this website have been a two-part article about the evolution of Java’s compareTo and Comparator#compare methods. Implementing order for comparable objects is important,…
The Problem With Creating Generic Arrays
Introduction I bet that most Java programmers fall into the trap of trying to create generic arrays at least once in their Java software development career, wondering why the compiler…