Tag: Java

It was very challenging three days at Devoxx in Krakow in terms learning, so many things in three days… it was almost impossible to ingest all this knowledge. Looking back on all the talks I can tell that there were couple of topics that were touched/discussed very often: Functional programming Microservices Containers Soft skills talks about culture at work, coding, architecture of code etc. Functional programming Functional programming becomes more and more popular, but why? Read More…

At first glance we may state that JUnit tests are good because they test our code, they are good because they prove that what we did works, but that is only one side of it. A while ago I was told to write test for old legacy code and after couple of days I end up with 20% coverage, simply speaking I failed. When my tests started to look like Frankenstein I told to myself that it makes no sense. Read More…

Couple of weeks ago, I have won a book on Torun JUG meetup, where I could pick one by myself :) My natural choice was to get something from Java, and after a while I come up with: “Java 8 Lambdas. Functional Programming for the Masses” by Richard Warburton. That was a perfect match. This book is very well crafted, easy to understood, it has lots of helpful examples and meaningful pictures that help to visualize complex topics, thus it’s easy to remember. Read More…