Year: 2016

Wikipedia defines pagination as “The process of dividing a document into discrete pages, either electronic pages or printed pages”. For a programmer, pagination is the process of dividing a large amount of content to be presented on the UI in chunks. Enterprise Web-based applications, such as search engines, forums, and e-commerce stores use pagination to […]Continue reading

If you are still using System.out to print debugging or diagnostic information in your application, it’s time to look for a more elegant and efficient solution in the form of a logging framework. Although there are lots of logging frameworks around for Java applications, Log4J is one of the most widely adopted one because of […]Continue reading

I’ve been a fan of IntelliJ for a long time. You’ll see me using IntelliJ in all my video tutorials. I started out on Eclipse. Even tried going back and using Spring Tool Suite on Eclipse. Found it unusable, and went back to IntelliJ. I’ve tried Netbeans in the past (although it’s been ages!). I […]Continue reading

One thing is for certain, the OS wars between developers is not a topic that is going away anytime soon. People can be very passionate about the OS they use. Windows has been the dominant OS for a long long time. I used to be a bing Windows user. But not anymore. Like the maid, […]Continue reading

The latest TIOBE index has Java language moving strongly into the #1 programming language for January 2016. If you’re not familiar with the TIOBE Index, it’s an index that looks at searches on the major search engines, blogs, forums, and Youtube (Did you know Youtube is now the second biggest search engine?) The “Popularity of […]Continue reading