Adding characterization tests to a legacy java code command line application. Running into the legacy code dilemma because of dependencies to the System glob... (more…)

Visual J++ (pronounced "Jay Plus Plus") is Microsoft's discontinued implementation of Java. Syntax, keywords, and grammatical conventions were the same as Java's. It was introduced in 1996[1] and discontinued in January 2004,[2] replacing it to a certain ... (more…)

Demystifying and explaining the idea of “data constructors”—from languages like Elm, Grain, Haskell, F#, OCaml, ReasonML, etc.—by implementing an example in TypeScript. (more…)

There’s always been a considerable level of criticism against Java from a big sector of our industry; this criticism has been mostly focused on Java’s verbosity and the amount of boilerplate code it generates in many cases without need. Although I’ve alwa... (more…)

We’ve all seen the above image being mentioned in the context of code quality. But what do we mean when we say that a particular piece of… (more…)