Lenny Primak made a pretty convincing argument in favor of Java – modern features, speed, and more concise syntax. It’s still one of the top programming languages as per various indices.
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Don’t dread the Thread, it’s just Java async code
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It’s useful to think of threads simply in terms of tools that provide the ability to execute pieces of code asynchronously. Before async-await and Future…
Best way to split a paragraph into sentences
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…is to not use your own brain but rather ride on the shoulders of an expert. Surprisingly enough (for most), a popular ‘expert’ is Stanford CoreNLP. Suppose you have the following paragraph (credit): Born in Pretoria, South Africa, Musk taught himself computer programming at the age of 12. He moved to Canada when he was […]
Creating a Java 10 project in IntelliJ IDEA with JUnit 5 and Gradle support
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IntelliJ IDEA is a free and open-source (yay!) IDE for Java development. It’s a huge-huge-huge improvement over the slow and ageing Eclipse. Recently, I wanted to do some programming practice, so I thought why not in Java. I started by writing my code in good ol’ Notepad++. Very soon I reminded myself about my TDD […]
Running opentaps in Windows
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So I’m playing around with opentaps these days. It runs pretty neatly in Linux. Simply executing a shell script it comes with autostarts a built-in Tomcat server and runs the darn thing without a hitch. opentaps under Windows is another animal! Although opentaps comes with a similar batch script for Windows, the thing doesn’t run […]
Granular Package Archive
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Continuing my Java learning stint, I started experimenting on RPM packages in the Granular 2008 repository by extracting meta data from them using various Java classes I had written for my on-going college major project. To give a shape (end-user interface) to these leisurely done Java programs, I used my existing project MyBlog to create […]
Recent happenings
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Although I haven’t yet gotten out of the agony that I got on loosing my previous blog, I am finding this new place quite comfortable. Today, I was feeling like blogging here, after so much time. So, here are some events related to me take took place not too long ago: Granular 1.0 Preview was […]