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opening multiple intellij modules in the same project and remembering them on reopen

This is the number one problem that has prevented me from using IntelliJ more and I finally know how to do it. (I’ve known how to open multiple modules for over a year. What I learned yesterday at the IntelliJ … Continue reading →

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Happy Book Birthday! OCP Java 11 Practice Tests Now Shipping!

Jeanne and I are ecstatic to announce our new book, OCP Java 11 Practice Tests, is now shipping! It’s the first book in print custom written for the new 1Z0-819 Java 11 Certification Exam as well as the 1Z0-817 Java … Continue reading →

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Switching your Gradle builds from JCenter to Maven Central

JCenter is being decommissioned on May 1st, 2021. Since many Gradle builds use JCenter by default, this means your Gradle build file is likely to have jcenter() in it. This means you have a few months to switch to Maven … Continue reading →

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streamyard, virtual backgrounds, and room dividers

I live in a studio apartment. That means quite a bit of stuff is visible from my computer camera. As you might imagine, I’m a bit fan of virtual backgrounds. For work, it is easier. It’s not a problem if … Continue reading →

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streamyard, virtual backgrounds, and room dividers was first posted on January 12, 2021 at 10:12 pm.
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re the interview question “what did you do with your extra time during the pandemic”

I turned on the television and heard a sentence about expecting a question during an interview – “what did you do with your extra time during the pandemic”. I don’t know the context or if this is a common question. … Continue reading →

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re the interview question “what did you do with your extra time during the pandemic” was first posted on January 10, 2021 at 12:23 pm.
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Coding is easy and other fallacies

The New York Times ran an op-ed with the headline “In India, parents are being aggressively sold the idea that their children must start coding at 4 or 5 or be future failures.” (It’s behind a paywall, but you don’t … Continue reading →

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Coding is easy and other fallacies was first posted on January 3, 2021 at 12:21 pm.
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Copy/paste connected shape in Acrobat Reader

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC has a “shape” called “Connected Lines” in the comments pane. I wanted to copy/paste and move one around. This was a pain in the neck. I wasn’t expecting it to be that hard. I ran into … Continue reading →

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Copy/paste connected shape in Acrobat Reader was first posted on December 20, 2020 at 7:33 pm.
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Update: Java 11 Practice Tests

Jeanne and I know many of our readers are anxiously awaiting their copy of our new Java OCP 11 Practice Test Book for the 1Z0-819 Exam, originally expected out this month. The good news is we finished the manuscript a … Continue reading →

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Update: Java 11 Practice Tests was first posted on December 13, 2020 at 2:08 pm.
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New Zoom self-selecting breakout rooms

I live the new Zoom feature to be able to switch between breakout rooms. You have to be on the latest zoom and the feature has to be enabled for your meeting. After clicking breakout rooms at the bottom, you … Continue reading →

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New Zoom self-selecting breakout rooms was first posted on December 3, 2020 at 5:23 pm.
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Multi statement lambda and for each anti patterns

When I do a code review of lambda/stream code, I am immediately suspicious of two things – block statement lambdas and forEach(). What’s wrong with this? It’s functional programming right? Well? Not really. It does have a lambda. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

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Multi statement lambda and for each anti patterns was first posted on November 17, 2020 at 8:51 pm.
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