I've stumbled upon an interesting Stack Overflow question by user "mip". The question was: I'm looking for a way of generating an alphabetic sequence: A, B, C, ..., Z, AA, AB, AC, ..., ZZ. This can be quickly recognised as the headings of an Excel spreadsheet, which does precisely that: . So far, none of … Continue reading How to use Java 8 Functional Programming to Generate an Alphabetic Sequence
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There is no Such Thing as Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch
Much of the ORM criticism of the last decade missed the point, being inaccurate. By the end of this article, we will conclude with the following: There is no significant difference between the relational (data) model and object oriented models How to come to this conclusion? Read on! How we came to believe in this … Continue reading There is no Such Thing as Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch
Functional Programming in Java 8 with vavr
We're very happy to announce a guest post on the jOOQ Blog written by Daniel Dietrich, Senior Software Engineer at HSH Nordbank, husband and father of three. He currently creates a pricing framework for financial products as project lead and lead developer. Besides his work, he is interested in programming languages, efficient algorithms and data … Continue reading Functional Programming in Java 8 with vavr
When the Java 8 Streams API is not Enough
Java 8 was - as always - a release of compromises and backwards-compatibility. A release where the JSR-335 expert group might not have agreed upon scope or feasibility of certain features with some of the audience. See some concrete explanations by Brian Goetz about why ... ... "final" is not allowed in Java 8 default … Continue reading When the Java 8 Streams API is not Enough
Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss
Some things are just very very very VERY very important. Such as John Cleese. The same is true for Whitespace: Whitespace-Shedding Yes. 1080 Reddit Karma points (so urgently needed!) in only 23 hours. That's several orders of magnitudes better than any of our - what we wrongfully thought to be - very deep and interesting … Continue reading Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss
Java 8 Friday: More Functional Relational Transformation
In the past, we've been providing you with a new article every Friday about what's new in Java 8. It has been a very exciting blog series, but we would like to focus again more on our core content, which is Java and SQL. We will still be occasionally blogging about Java 8, but no … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: More Functional Relational Transformation