Author: Alan van Dam

Complicated tree structures are being used a lot within my current project. Tree nodes have elements behind them. An element is unique, but there can be multiple tree nodes …

Last Monday I was attending a presentation of Brian Goetz about the Java Memory Model. One of his points was about lazy initialization which concluded with "don’t use the …

A lot of interesting stuff is going on. More and more (dynamic typed) languages are appearing and getting more attention. Are they better than the Java language?

Writing unit-tests should be part of your development process whether you write them before or after the actual coding I leave that up to you. On of the pitfalls …