So we hear about HyperThreading and how it is sooo cool, well, it is and it isn’t. If you are really trying to squeeze performance out of your application HyperThreading might not be what you’re looking for. There are so many other things that happens…

Have you ever wonder how bit masking work (or what is that?) and why do you need it? Or why a tree structure exists? (or what is breadth first vs depth first), or what are game trees? We put our Computer Science hat and go “depth first” in some…

This is a presentation I did for the Chicago Java Users Group on the topic of multithreading. There are some solid foundations in here to start tackling multithreading programming. Some of it might’ve been already been seen in depth from our other…

You remember recursion right? that ugly, confusing thing they made you do either on CS-300, or at job interviews. Have you ever wondered how to make it safe and right? and why do we really use recursion? In this episode we go into proper recursion…

Episode 34. New Year’s (2013) Resolution! Less bugs and more coverage! —- Ok, so we all celebrated (but may not remember) the end of the old year and the beginning of a new year! This is a time for starting new things, and trying to be a little…

Episode 33. Does code dream when it hibernates? A quick look on the big things of Hibernate —- Databases have been around forever! (or at least from the 1970s) and there are many things that try to hook Object Objected Programming with Relational…

Shout out to the Chicago Java User’s Group! Glad to be part of the Board! And Shout out to Peter Hendriks and Tim Prijn for their (https://oracleus.activeevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=4153). If interested, click on the ‘media’ icon on…

Big shout-out to everyone I met at JavaOne (including some avid podcast listeners!). Thanks for listening and for a great time down at JavaOne! Don’t worry, we will be sharing all the stuff I learned on new episodes of the podcast. It is also our…

Episode 30. I always thought Generics were as good as brand name Erasers (Java Generics part 1) —- Hi there! Finally back on a (hopefully) standard schedule. I have been moving a house with three kids, two cats, one wife, one dog, and one grandma…

We go and visit the Primordial Java Concepts. As rules set in stone we explore the concept of multiple inheritance, method and variable scope (including the final keyword), abstract methods and @override. This is good for those starting up their Mad…