ADBCJ in Scala: Getting Started
What, again asynchronous database access? Yes, because I’m currently knee deep in this stuff. (^^) This post series will show how to use ADBCJ in Scala 2.10, share a few…
Read moreState of Asynchronous Database Access for Java
It has been a while since I wrote any serious technical stuff. Previously I’ve already written a bit about asynchronous database access. I’ve been continuing work on this, mainly on…
Read moreGoogle Guava Collection Test Suite
Did you even implement your own collections for some reason? Collections which implement the Java collection interfaces? Did you ever wonder if there is test suite for collections, which tests…
Read moreHow J2EE (still) feels to me
It feels like this: I just recently started to look into some J2EE stuff. Still feels super scary. Don’t want to say much more about it. Yes, J2EE got…
Read moreSome Performance Numbers With Akka Async SQL
A while back I wrote about my small Async SQL library for Akka and its asynchronous MySQL driver. Besides a few tiny fixes I’ve added nothing new recently. However I…
Read moreAsync SQL and Akka
I’ve already written several times about Akka and async programming with it. For example doing access files and webservices with it. So async API stack is complete, right? We’ve got…
Read more’Decompiling’ Scala
Somehow I often end up in a situation where I need to take a look at what the Scala compiler generates, mainly at the class-signature of the generated stuff. So…
Read moreAnnoying Void in C# / Java / alike
One thing which regularly annoys me in C# and Java is the void type. Basically the void type is not a subtype of object, which makes it giant. Now when…
Read moreApproval Testing
Approval Testing is one of my newest discoveries. It is amazingly helpful and I wonder why it’s not more known and used. Image that you have a complex functionality which…
Read moreVisualVM
VisualVM is an awesome tool! It is one of the best tools shipped with the JDK. I’m always astonished when people do know nothing about it. Here’s a short tour…
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