On one of my first jobs as a Java developer back in 2012, I had the luck to work on a team that was very progressive with coding practices. They introduce me to pair programming and test-driven development among others. …

On my article Avoid Explicit null Checks i talked about alternative ways to handle a null value that don’t involve explicitly doing null checks. After writing that article I still felt I needed to emphasize more in explaining that any of those approaches are unnecessary if we Just Don’t Return…

Java exists for so many years and it has a huge adoption in the industry. Over the years many java libraries were written that today we have libraries for almost everything. …

One of the more frustrating things about reading bad written code is that you have to mentally discard a lot of code just to find what is relevant. Who hasn’t at least once in his career at least found a huge large method full of duplications, boilerplate that does more…

During my career as a Java programmer I did read some books, some of them influenced me more and some less. Some I really enjoyed reading and some I didn’t enjoy so much. I am going to take some pictures of them and share my thoughts. Unfortunately due relocating over…

I was helping somebody recently that is learning to code Java, he said if is possible to add a maven project as a dependency in another maven project. I said of course is possible, In this article I am just showing some screenshots from an example I did on his…

I think somebody once explained me how the apple doesn’t want developers to burnout and encourages them to take a break now and then and for that reason they placed the charging socket under the mouse. Honestly I don’t know what to think about that. …

For me pair programming is one of the most fun activities you get to do as a programmer. Also is not just fun, it is a great tool for knowledge sharing and team building. And actually it does improve productivity as opposed to what many wrongly believe. …

When a team does pair programming, sometimes happens there’s a lot of repetition in the pairing. In other words the same people keep doing it and there’s no swapping. To remind that the pairs should swap there’s a thing called pairing stairs. Which is a visual way to see who…