Writing
Notes on software, hardware, and whatever I've been building.
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Aug 2016
Typesafe Config: Contributing "Required Includes"
I contributed a new feature to Typesafe Config (PR #421): the ability to mark an included config file as required, so that a missing file causes an explicit ...
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Aug 2016
Introducing ClasspathHell — Classpath Collision Detector
First release of ClasspathHell — a tool for detecting classpath collisions before they cause production incidents.
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Aug 2016
Google QUIC: a Better Web Protocol?
Google’s QUIC protocol — reliable UDP over HTTPS — is worth watching. A colleague reminded me I’d done something similar a decade earlier at a financial inst...
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Dec 2015
SLF4J Logging Testing
Testing log output in Java is more annoying than it should be. Most existing approaches rely on singletons and StaticLogBinder — which means they break under...
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Aug 2011
Immutable Enforcement with AspectJ
Java has no built-in immutability enforcement. You can mark fields final, but the compiler won’t stop you putting a mutable object in one. I wrote an AspectJ...