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A collection of 15 issues

Hot Loading - Still Relevant?

More than a decade ago, when I started my profession as a software developer, one of the most significant pain for developers was waiting for your application server to start so that they could verify their code changes. Hence there were efforts to make live reloading happen without restarting the

Is your first programming language holding you from learning your next language?

In one of my previous posts, I mentioned how I was using the Java syntax of lambda expressions while I was programming with Kotlin. In my observation, whenever we are working on something, if our brain finds a match to what we already know, often end up using the same

IDE generated code - a good idea?

In my previous post I mentioned how pain acted as a trigger to positive action. In this post, let's analyse potential solutions to the problem I had mentioned in the above post and what can we learn from them. At the time of this incident, our team was

Using Pain as a Trigger to Positive Action

Recently I gave a talk titled "Evolving with Java - How to Remain Relevant and Effective" in GIDS on the Java Day of the conference. The talk was centred around using pain as the triggering point for positive action. Let me tell you the incident that triggered this

If you are building your artifacts per environment, you are doing it wrong

I have heard several times developer telling me how they build their artifacts before deploying to each of their environment. Yes, they build a jar for dev and instead of promoting the same jar to their acceptance testing environment, they rebuild the jar specifically for their UAT environment. Here is