In their 2009 JavaOne presentation Return of the Puzzlers: Schlock and Awe (PDF), Joshua Bloch and Neal Gafter presented seven more puzzlers and extracted lessons learned from each of these puzzlers ...

Ever wonder why Java's const keyword is unimplemented? More specifically, why do we mark global constants in Java with both the static and final keywords? Why are Java constants static and final? The ...

In my previous blog post, I blogged on the “code too large” problem and reproduced that error message. In this post, I look at the very similar “too many ...