Test method naming, the right way
Phil Karlton once said: “There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” Absolutely true. Today, most of us are pretty conscious about giving things the right name, like classes, methods, fields and local variables, and naming things correctly is…
Let’s get you up to speed on Java 13!
On September 17 2019, Java 13 was released GA (General Availability). Java 13 / JDK 13: General Availability: https://t.co/06XlNb5Nty #jdk13 #java13 #openjdk #java — Mark Reinhold (@mreinhold) September 17, 2019 This blog post gives an overview of what’s new in Java 13, and helps you…
Java 11 is here to stay!
Java 11 has been released! Let us get you up to speed on the highlights of this release. Java 11 is the first LTS (Long Term Support) release since Java 8. This is important because any software built upon it will have commercial support until...
Development automation met Atomist – Java Magazine
Als ontwikkelaars willen we vooral bezig zijn met het schrijven van toffe code. Helaas zijn we een flink deel van onze tijd kwijt aan allerlei saaie randzaken. In dit artikel neem Michel Schudel daarom het Atomist-platform onder de loep. Atomist neemt een groot deel van...
Java 10 in 5 minutes
From Java 9, Oracle will release a new version of Java every 6 months, starting with Java 10, which is to be released on march 20, 2018. This blog highlights the major language and API changes in Java 10. Local variable type inference For local...
LEGOlisering bij NS
Op het NS kantoor in Amersfoort wordt hard gewerkt aan het project B@M, een systeem dat in geval van calamiteiten op het spoor zorgt voor aanpassingen in de dienstregeling. We werken daar Agile, in SCRUM-sprints van twee weken. Dat is af en toe flink aanpoten,...
State your intentions
I recently came across Martin Fowler‘s post about FunctionLength. In that post he stated something about intention versus implementation. Although it might seem a very trivial thing, the impact on code readability is huge! For example, if I want to check if a book is...
Test behaviour, not implementation
Quite often I see unit tests that seem very interested in a class’s inner workings. This not only misses the point of a unit test, but makes the class harder to refactor, since the corresponding unit test will have to change more often as well....
REST-assured Barca, here I come!
Hoe leuk is het om je eigen Java-kennis te mogen delen? Geweldig natuurlijk. Zeker als dat ook nog eens op een internationaal podium kan. Deze kans krijg ik binnenkort in Barcelona! Tijdens de JBCNConf mag ik mijn Zuid-Europese collega’s inspireren over mijn voorliefde voor REST-assured. Ik...
Getting Log4j2 to work in an OSGi context
The Log4j2 framework is a drastic improvement over Log4j. Rolling file appenders work well across multiple JVMs, it offers improved reliability and it has a nice plugin system that enables you to extend the framework. Those, and the fact that Log4j will not work in Java 9,...