Random Thoughts on Coding

Last year I completed an intro to functional progamming course on edX. The language used in the course was haskell. I found working in haskell enjoyable. One of my favorite features is functions taking more than one parameter can be partially applied functions automatically. For example, if you have a...

This is a short post about a method I recently discovered in Guava. The Issue I had a situation at work where I was working with objects structured something like this: public class Outer { String outerId; List<Inner> innerList; ....... } public class Inner { String innerId; Date timestamp; }...

A short time ago, I started a side project to learn the latest version of Antlr. I decided to do something that has always interested me, a sql parser for the Lucene search engine. Even though the parser is a learning exercise, I thought someone else could find this useful....

The Java 8 lambda syntax and functional interfaces have been a productivity boost for Java developers. But there is one drawback to functional interfaces. None of the them as currently defined in Java 8 declare any checked exceptions. This leaves the developer at odds on how best to handle checked...

Recently at work I needed to search through our archived files and provide the results by the end of the day. Here’s the parameters of the request: The archive files are encrypted and stored in HDFS (Don’t ask why we store them in HDFS). The files vary in size form...