Most new Java developers quickly learn that they should generally compare Java Strings using String.equals(Object) rather than using ==. This is emphasized and reinforced to new developers repeatedly ...

When I was writing code regularly in both C++ and Java in the early days of Java, I often missed Java’s (at the time) lack of an enum. Fortunately, when Java finally got its enum, it was worth the ...

Q. I'm working on a tool to support my internal framework. This tool needs to include a combo box that contains a list that is specific to a particular project. The framework tool assembly doesn't ...

I picked up adding a few meta values to enums a long time ago; I feel they make bounds checking and writing for loops more readable. But gcc has been giving me some grief about it in one way, here's ...