In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #16 of the Effective Java series – Favor Composition over Inheritance. You’ll learn why using inheritance is not always a great idea and how you can use composition in place of it to make your code more anti-fragile, resilient and clean.
In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Working Effectively with Legacy Code. He doesn’t just talk about the book itself, but he talks about how to approach a legacy code base and start delivering value as soon as possible, yet with confidence. If you’ve recently started a new job, moved to a new team, started working on an existing code base, then this episode is bound to help you.
In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #15 of the Effective Java series – Minimize Mutability. You’ll learn what mutable and immutable objects are, how and why immutability is a good thing and how you can implement it.
In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #14 of the Effective Java series – In public classes, use accessor methods, not public fields. You’ll learn why it’s important to use accessors in your public classes and some caveats to this rule.
For example, you may decide that the class is a private inner class or package private. Donn digs into the details in this week’s episode. This is a glimpse of what’s to come in Item #15, which is coming soon…
In this mini-Fragment episode, Kaushik talks about the process of Garbage collection and how it compares to Reference counting (which is the equivalent process in iOS).
How does each work? What are the differences? Which is better 😁 ? Listen on for all the juicy details…
In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #13 of the Effective Java series – Minimize the accessibility of classes and members. You’ll learn why it’s important to limit the access on your public API, how it can help you with development and performance. You’ll also learn how changing a public API can affect the consumers of your API, for good and bad.
In this mini-Fragment episode, Donn talks about Item #12 of the Effective Java series – Consider Implementing Comparable. You’ll learn about how you can use the Comparable interface to give your code the extra sorting boost it needs. Work with Arrays.sort(), Collections utilities and even sorted data structures. Donn breaks down what it takes to implement the compareTo method of the Comparable interface.
We wind this two part series down with GDE Philippe by chatting about postfix completion, live templates, structural search/replace, integrating with external tools, cool configurations and much more. Prepare to be mind blown.
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.
This episode is sponsored by Hired.com.
In this mini Fragment, Donn talks about one of his favorite topics, YAGNI. YAGNI is an acronym that stands for “You Aren’t Gonna Need It”. Donn explains what it is, why its useful and shares a personal story of how he was introduced to the YAGNI concept back in 2008.