A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
In this article, we are going to have a look at a method that accepts an option. That is to say, it accepts an argument that somehow decides how it operates. If you use a lot of libraries in your day-to-day programming, you're bound to come across methods that accept …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Programming
Null references are problematic, to say the least. Tony Hoare (inventor of the null reference) even went as far to say call them his "billion dollar mistake". In this article, I first make a cursory exploration of why null references are so problematic, and then have a look at Java's …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
I just got home from the Innovation and Technology in Computer Science (ITiCSE) conference in lovely Aberdeen, Scotland. I was there to present a small experience paper on developing and using RepoBee, an open source tool for generating and managing large amounts of Git repositories for students in higher education …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
I've been AWOL for a month due to injury, sickness and conference-going. But
with all that finally out of the way, I have another Tip of the Week, this time
relating to Git: the git worktree command. With git worktree, you can check
out multiple branches at once, which is …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
A couple of weeks ago I covered some basic I/O redirection in bash (see I/O redirection in bash). Well, there's actually a lot more to it, so for this TOTW I thought I'd touch on a few more advanced usages.
Sometimes, you may find that part …