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Maybe you have read several posts on the web on how Lambda Expressions are used. Most of the ones I have read uses examples for filtering collections with the new Stream API of Java 8. Those examples are good but they are more focused on showing a fancy way of... [Read More]

How many times did you ask yourself, in order to avoid duplicated code, if you should use inheritance or composition? Did you ask yourself about the differences between subtype and subclass? Do you always follows the Liskov Substitution Principle? This post will try to help to answer these questions. And... [Read More]

I have found, during my experience (which is far from large one) working with other developers, that few of them use the debugger as the first tool for troubleshooting and learning or understand legacy code. If you are familiar with Java/Eclipse, you will know that debugging an application is pretty... [Read More]

I cannot find in the literature a precise distinction between Software Architecture and Software Design. Of course, I did not read all the books about software Architecture available in the market, but I read two great books, which I recommend (mentioned on footnotes below), but neither of them, IMHO, are... [Read More]

Many developers think that Legacy Code is an old code base that they inherit. A working application that other developer or other team wrote and you inherit it to maintain or enhance or to migrate to a newer platform. This is not entirely true, according to the definition of Michael... [Read More]