Conway's game of life without state - part 2
Refactoring Decisions and Design Choices
Jun 22, 20265 min read1
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From Interview Question to Stateless Game of Life - part 1
A coding interview, a tram ride home, and an idea that sat in my head for over a year: modelling Conway's Game of Life as a transformation of sets rather than mutable cells.
Jun 15, 20267 min read15
Play with a scan function/method in Java
I wasn't sure what title to chose for this article; I considered: 'wonky implementation of scan' or 'play with minScan'.Anyway, you are warned, code here is for fun and to throw away.Don't use that in production!! I was once inspired by a video compa...
Jul 27, 20245 min read14Using a phaser rather than 2 count down latches
Introduction I came across an excellent article listed in Baeldung's Java weekly.The article title is How to use the Java CountDownLatch.I just wanted to build on that article and use a Phaser as an alternative. Overview In the last code example, of ...
Jan 29, 20242 min read15jOOQ vs JdbcTemplate
A quick comparison between using jOOQ and Spring's JdbcTemplate to interact with a database. Introduction Not so long ago, I would have reached to Spring's JdbcTemplate to query databases.It's 'richer' than the JDBC API and it would have been my pref...
Jan 26, 20246 min read95
Database with Flyway and jOOQ
Introduction Here we discuss how to quickly setup a Java project - that connects to a relational database system (RDBMS) - with Flyway and jOOQ.The goal is to have a simple project setup - that can be adapted to many database systems - and that can t...
Jan 4, 20248 min read64