In this mini-Fragment, Donn talks about Item #10 of the Effective Java series – Always Override toString. You’ll learn why it’s important for your own sanity, future developers, and overall developer happiness.
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In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s ninth Item. After the last somewhat mind boggling item, this is a much welcomed simple, practical yet important one: Always override hashCode when you override equals.
Donn goes into the importance of implementing hashCode and why it’s so important to override it for maintaining harmony with the equals method. Also 42 and the answer to life ? He then goes into some tips on implementing a good hashCode and a standard recipe for the same.
Go forth and override them hashCodes!
In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s eighth Item. This one is a doozy, probably one of the longest items in the group of the effective Java series, but most definitely quite important.
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In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s seventh Item and a momentous end to the first chapter: Avoid finalizers
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Joshua’s sixth Item: Eliminate obsolete object references, in a distinctively croaky voice.
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In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s fifth Item: Avoid creating unnecessary objects.
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Singer and Android developer Donn Felker explores Joshua Bloch’s fourth Item: Enforce noninstantiability with a private constructor.
Stay tuned, cause we got more of these quick ones coming.
In this mini Fragment, we introduce Joshua’s third Item: Enforce the Singleton property with a private constructor or an enum type.
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In our third Fragment installment, we introduce Josh’s second Item: Consider a builder when faced with many constructor parameters.
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We’ve mentioned the book “Effective Java” by Joshua Bloch quite a few times on previous episodes. At this point, everyone knows they should have read this book (quadruple times). But it’s a dense read and everyone could use a reading buddy. Also, what does Effective Java look like through the eyes of an Android developer?
In this second installment of our Fragment (a.k.a mini-episode), we thought we’ll do our listeners a favor and help with that reading. We introduce the very first of these venerable “Items”: Consider providing static factory methods instead of constructors.
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