Stop wrapping every function in a try-catch block. Here is how professional engineers handle failure gracefully in modern systems. Open any junior developer’s pull request, and you will almost always ...

Java annotations were designed for metadata. Spring uses them for dependency injection. Lombok uses them for code generation. JPA uses them for ORM mapping. We use them to write entire programs. This ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...

This is going to be an opinionated piece on logging sanity based on my experience. Take it with a grain of salt and use it if you find yourself agreeing with it. If you’re reading this then you’re ...

Java has a powerful new concurrency model, and it works with both traditional and virtual threads. Here's a first look at structured concurrency. Structured concurrency is a new way to use ...

The command-line interface (CLI) is the inner world of software development. From the shell, we have direct access to all the operating system’s capabilities, and with that comes the power to compose ...

The case is from a Flag game in the 2020 WANGDING CUP. There is an apk file that you should find the flag as soon as possible. Drag it into GDA, we find it packed & protected by 360. So the key to ...

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Writing succinct and elegant JDBC code can be difficult. You have to create a few different objects and catch numerous checked exceptions, even if you can't reasonably recover from them. Closing a ...