Efficient Bits

When writing test assertions with JUnit I tend to favour using assertThat  over assertEquals . I've been asked a couple of times now wha...

There are many advantages to immutability. Immutability makes it impossible to the change of state and establish an invariant in your softwa...

You're on ten ... Where can you go? Where? ... Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what...

In the last post I wrote on how different graph representations can affect algorithm performance. The choice of representation not only affe...

All programmers know that   premature-optimisation is the root of all evil. Sometimes however, you just can't shake the hunch that somet...