Random Thoughts on Coding

One of the great things about the Spark Framework is the amout of functionality provided out of the box. There is a class aimed exclusively at working with key-value pairs, the PairRDDFunctions class. When working data in the key-value format one of the most common operations to perform is grouping...

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...