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…