
Coding matters: Thoughts about productivity
Do you think that people want to do good work? Do you believe productivity is what makes developers happy? Jacqui shares her views, and a few comments about productivity measures.
Do you think that people want to do good work? Do you believe productivity is what makes developers happy? Jacqui shares her views, and a few comments about productivity measures.
This is part 9 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java. Lewis looks at how to gracefully shut down the Executor objects, and how to schedule tasks to run regularly.
We all sometimes choose the easy way. But easy doesn’t produce great results. And sometimes easy is just plain wrong. Maybe it’s time to develop a 7th sense.
This is part 8 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java. Lewis looks at the TimeUnit enum and some of the other methods of the Future interface.
Imagine that a company offered a course for people to "qualify" as a dentist in only one month – or one week or 24 hours. After all, Google already has all the answers, so you don’t need to learn that much. Then imagine walking into your new dentist’s consulting rooms.
In part 7 of the series, Lewis looks at how to create Executor and ExecutorService objects. He also explains how to run Callable objects and access their return values using the Future interface.
I spent last weekend with a friend in Cape Town. My friend’s super power is her sense of fun and humour. What’s in your glass? I am a "glass-is-half-full" kind of person. To my friend, however, the glass is almost full. After speaking to many people recently for whom the
In part 6 of the series on threads and multithreading in Java, Lewis looks at the difference between runnable and callable.
Let’s be honest. When we have a question, the first thing we do is Google it. Or Bing it. For the more tech elite, we might Duck-Duck-Go it. (That doesn’t quite work as a verb, but you know what I mean. And if you don’t, just Google Duck Duck Go.)
In part 5 of this series, Lewis looks at how to synchronize threads in Java. He explains why threads must be synchronized, and how Java objects are locked. Learn how to use the Java synchronized keyword and the various synchronized methods in Java.
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