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When code fails, the programmer has to consider what happens when that failure occurs. That includes knowing what the failure means and how to handle it. Exception handling is the sub-program inside of the program where we, as programmers, attempt to exert some control over the results of that failure.
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This is my first list of freely available ebooks about functional programming. Rather than trying to compile a long list of every online ebook on the subject, I focused on the ones that are completely free such that they do not require any registration. However if you do find these useful, I would encourage supporting the people and organizations that have published them online. Continue reading >
What is the Java Enterprise Edition framework and why it is still an important part of many applications? About a year and half ago, I wrote a post about it and it’s uncertain future. Since then there has been quite a few changes and while the future is far from certain, I feel it is much brighter and certainly shouldn’t continue to be the “forgotten” Java framework.
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For the Brilliant Coding blog, I built a new WordPress theme called: Brilliant Coding Alpha. Previously I had used existing WordPress themes, which were great, but lacked some of the flexibility I wanted. Instead I wanted something a little more “hackable”, after some research I found a few “theme builders” that took a similar approach.
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JavaOne is one of the biggest annual conferences to discuss Java technologies. It was inaugurated in 1996 by Sun Microsystems, and now is run during Oracle OpenWorld after the 2010 acquisition of Sun by Oracle Corporation. This year there was more excitement than usual around the JavaOne event, usually the event focuses on the technical topics and does not offer much in the way of product announcements. People were hoping for something different this year.
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In this example I’ll show you how you can build a static website for your open source project on GitHub pages using the combination of Python (language), Pelican (generator), and Docker (environment). For this type of task, speed is important. I want to avoid spending time thinking about designing a blog system or implementing a content management system. My goal with this approach, is to focus on the content, and avoid worrying about installation, setup, or infrastructure.
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Building computer software is all about ideas. I find quite a bit of inspiration from listening to presentations and tech talks from other people in software development. You should be warned that some people might find the topics below fairly controversial! But I feel that’s good. To me, if a presentation makes you pause to think and reflect, it is always worth the time to stop and listen.
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This is a quick example to show a simple PHP refactoring for object creation. Specifically our goal is to use static functions to better encapsulate our object constructor calls.
In this article I take a look ahead at the future of four programming languages; Java, Scala, Clojure and Kotlin. All four of these languages are designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine ( JVM ), which is supported on practically every computer operating system. Most recently, JVM programming languages have become popular choices for building cloud applications.
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This is a quick example to show refactoring a ‘for-loop’ over a List of objects by using a Lambda function instead.
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A programmer’s life is hard enough keeping up-to-date on the latest technologies, understanding product specifications, and debugging issues. These programming environments help keep programmer sane by offering integrated syntax coloring, auto-completion, debugging tools and more.
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This is a quick example to show refactoring to a strategy pattern.
We will take a simple function that uses a case statement and refactor with the strategy pattern. Keep in mind this approach will also work with ‘if … else’ trees too!
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