Many developers are tasked with writing unit tests as test-first design and development becomes commonplace, even on teams that aren't strictly practicing Agile methodologies. Test-driven development ...

Pattern matching (PM) was first introduced as the semiconductor industry began to shift from simple one-dimensional rule checks to the two-dimensional checks required by sub-resolution lithography.

GitHub has this week pushed a new design on to developers' repository homepages – but many people just want the old interface back. According to GitHub, the general UI refresh to the home page of ...

The job of the EJB developer is constantly challenging, making the task of designing maintainable and scalable systems difficult without a clear set of best practices to follow. It is with this and ...

When building applications, you often come across objects that are quite expensive to create. In some scenarios, the cost of creating new objects is high enough to impact application performance. Here ...

Take advantage of the command design pattern to decouple the requester of an action from the object that executes the action Design patterns are proven solutions used to solve common design problems ...