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Fast Tests Help Humans, Deep Tests Help Servers
Is Two-Step Initialization a Solution or a Symptom?
The Hidden Dangers of Method Overloading
Smaller Try-Blocks Are Better
Don't Group Exception Catchers
Logging in Unit Tests, a Bad Practice
Prestructors
Prefixed Naming
Fat vs. Skinny Design
Date/Time Printing Can Be Elegant Too
How to Use Nutch From Java, Not From the Command Line
How to Create a Java Web Framework from Scratch, the Right Object-Oriented Way
How to Deploy Maven Artifacts to CloudRepo via Rultor
Builders and Manipulators
How I Test My Java Classes for Thread-Safety
Fluent Interfaces Are Bad for Maintainability
Don't Parse, Use Parsing Objects
Alan Kay Was Wrong About Him Being Wrong
Constructors or Static Factory Methods?
Five Features to Make Java Even Better
Lazy Loading and Caching via Sticky Cactoos Primitives
Streams vs. Decorators
Java 9: The Good, The Bad, and Private Interface Methods
RAII in Java
How I Would Re-design equals()
Object-Oriented Declarative Input/Output in Cactoos
Single Statement Unit Tests
Traits and Mixins Are Not OOP
How to Handle the Problem of Too Many Classes
Each Private Static Method Is a Candidate for a New Class
Decorating Envelopes
Synchronized Decorators to Replace Thread-Safe Classes
Can Objects Be Friends?
MVC vs. OOP
Encapsulation Covers Up Naked Data
Don't Use Java Assertions
Test Methods Must Share Nothing
Why InputStream Design Is Wrong
Object Behavior Must Not Be Configurable
Java Annotations Are a Big Mistake
Printers Instead of Getters
Try. Finally. If. Not. Null.
Temporal Coupling Between Method Calls
Throwing an Exception Without Proper Context Is a Bad Habit
A Chatbot Is Better Than a UI for a Microservice
What Do You Do With InterruptedException?
Vertical and Horizontal Decorating
How to Set Up a Private Maven Repository in Amazon S3
Redundant Variables Are Pure Evil
Why Many Return Statements Are a Bad Idea in OOP
Checked vs. Unchecked Exceptions: The Debate Is Not Over
Public Static Literals ... Are Not a Solution for Data Duplication
XML Data and XSL Views in Takes Framework
There Can Be Only One Primary Constructor
A Few Thoughts on Unit Test Scaffolding
How Cookie-Based Authentication Works in the Takes Framework
Constructors Must Be Code-Free
How to Implement an Iterating Adapter
JAXB Is Doing It Wrong; Try Xembly
Java Web App Architecture In Takes Framework
Don't Repeat Yourself in Maven POMs; Use Jcabi-Parent
XSL Transformation in Java: An Easy Way
If. Then. Throw. Else. WTF?
How Immutability Helps
Paired Brackets
Built-in Fake Objects
Deploying to Heroku, in One Click
Simple Java SSH Client
How to Deploy to CloudBees, in One Click
How to Release to Maven Central, in One Click
Fluent JDBC Decorator
How to Retry Java Method Call on Exception
Strict Control of Java Code Quality
Cache Java Method Results
Liquibase with Maven
How to Read MANIFEST.MF Files
SASS in Java Webapp
XML+XSLT in a Browser
Limit Java Method Execution Time
Avoid String Concatenation
Java Method Logging with AOP and Annotations
Object-Oriented Java Adapter of Amazon S3 SDK
Get Rid of Java Static Loggers
MySQL Maven Plugin
DynamoDB Local Maven Plugin
W3C Java Validators
Typical Mistakes in Java Code
Java XML Parsing Made Easy
Object-Oriented DynamoDB API
Fluent Java HTTP Client
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