Explore various approaches for constructing queries with multiple criteria in Spring Data MongoDB. | Continue reading
Learn how to work with Apache Kafka, an open-source distributed event streaming platform. | Continue reading
Comments still not done. People are fine with growth. We love it when things are getting bigger, richer, more powerful, more vigorous, more prosperous. But for some reason we don't seem to be able to handle the opposite. We don't... Related Stories I Was Wrong About the Pixii Max … | Continue reading
Tutorial on how to initiate a POST request with Apache Camel. | Continue reading
This tutorial covers Java methods for converting a month's name to its respective number. | Continue reading
This tutorial demonstrates how to find the number of contiguous subarrays with a given arithmetic mean in an array efficiently. | Continue reading
Learn to use Spock's with() and verifyAll() helper methods to reduce the boilerplate in your tests when comparing objects. | Continue reading
Explore the cause of the H2 "Schema not found" exception and look into two different approaches to resolving it. | Continue reading
There's been no published obituary yet for Howard Bond, late of Ann Arbor, Michigan, which surprises me—Howard was prosperous, orderly, and lived with dignity—but I have heard from several people who knew him. They confirm that he passed away of... | Continue reading
There was an enigmatic post on the LFF (the Large Format Photography Forum) four days ago that Howard Bond had passed away "during the night" at the age of 93, with no source or further information given. Normally, I don't... Related Stories VSL and ZV-E10II What I Did On My Summ … | Continue reading
Learn about Spotbugs, an open-source static analysis tool for finding bugs in Java. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to handling ClassCastExceptions when working with BigInteger and Integer. | Continue reading
Learn how to check if an array is null or empty before using it in Java. | Continue reading
I have a peculiar blind spot with regard to soccer, a.k.a. world football: I can't feel any suspense or excitement when I watch it. I can usually access those feelings a little even when watching some kind of sport that... Related Stories Dog Bites (OT) Apologies (OT) Open Mike: … | Continue reading
Learn about the differences between Solr and Lucene. | Continue reading
Learn how to select an option or a value from a dropdown element using Selenium WebDriver with Java. | Continue reading
Explore how to use the Validator interface to validate objects in a Spring-based application. | Continue reading
Learn how to perform modulo-arithmetic operations in Java with 10^9 + 7 as an example format for the modulus. | Continue reading
Quick tutorial on how to unescape HTML symbols in Java. | Continue reading
Explore various new features introduced in Spring Security 6.3. | Continue reading
Learn essential techniques for using Cucumber parameters in Java testing. | Continue reading
People—tomorrow—Breakfast at Wimbledon—epic, epic, epic— 37 years old vs. 21 years old— The guy with the best resumé in tennis history against a kid of college age who is going for his fourth major championship—as many or more as some... | Continue reading
Learn how to extract column names from an Excel file with Apache POI. | Continue reading
Discover the features that make H2 an option for production storage, its limitations, when to use it, and when to avoid it. | Continue reading
Comments are not yet moderated. I'm a little turned around this morning. Watch this space. So Kirk Tuck took Visual Science Lab (VSL) down this morning and stopped blogging once and for all. And has celebrated this by...starting another blog.... | Continue reading
It just occurred to me that you could collect every camera of the Post-COVID film renaissance! All you need is a Pentax 17 and a pile of cash at the ready, since there's only been the one so far. Might... Related Stories Open Mike: Konica, Minolta, and My All-Time Favorite Digita … | Continue reading
Comments were up to date at 7:57 this morning Today is the last day to visit VSL, Kirk Tuck's Visual Science Lab. At least that's what Kirk says. He's threatened to walk away before, but he loves to work and... Related Stories What I Did On My Summer Vacation (OT) Happy Fourth of … | Continue reading
Comments are completely up to date at 8:05 a.m. Wednesday and also at 12:20 p.m. So my 12-step program has a basic principle..."when we were wrong, promptly admitted it." I was wrong on Monday. Hans Muus and other readers (and... Related Stories Pixii Max Announced (If Only It Ha … | Continue reading
1. Religious membership aided post-hurricane recovery growth. 2. Anna Gát Hope Axis podcast with Noah Smith. 3. Peter Gray on social media and depression. 4. Intellectual courage as the scarcest resource. 5. Richard Ngo on counterproductive activism. 6. Is the happiness of the in … | Continue reading
A quick tutorial on querying AWS Athena from a Spring Boot application. | Continue reading
Learn about the Testcontainers lifecyle by managing it programmatically as well as using its JDBC support. | Continue reading
Learn how to handle file uploading with GraphQL in Spring Boot. | Continue reading
Learn how to specify default field values in Apache Avro schemas. | Continue reading
Learn how to use Hamcrest matchers to check if the elements of a list has certain properties. | Continue reading
Behind the dearth of elevators in the country that birthed the skyscraper are eye-watering costs. A basic four-stop elevator costs about $158,000 in New York City, compared with about $36,000 in Switzerland. A six-stop model will set you back more than three times as much in Penn … | Continue reading
We quantify the contribution of the largest firms to South Korea’s economic performance over the period 1972-2011. Using firm-level historical data, we document a novel fact: firm concentration rose substantially during the growth miracle period. To understand whether rising conc … | Continue reading
Comments have been up to date for the past two days One of the permanent features of the manufacture of cameras since the announcement of photography in 1839 is the great natural appeal of building the perfect, or the ideal,... Related Stories A Killdeer, a Coyote, and the Pentax … | Continue reading
Learn about Apache Fury, an incubating project under the Apache Software Foundation. | Continue reading
Learn how to implement integration tests with Citrus for Quarkus. | Continue reading
If we have a collection of elements we may wish to find the frequency of the different values. How to do this efficiently depends on the type of element and how many different values there may be. | Continue reading
We may experience the IncompatibleClassChangeError when using extremely incompatible versions of libraries. We look at how this error occurs and how to fix it. | Continue reading
RabbitMQ doesn't usually provide delivery guarantees. However, there are some features we can turn on to gain send and receipt acknowledgements. In this article, we explore these features and how to use them. | Continue reading
1. Executive compensation is becoming increasingly homogenized. 2. More on the Alice Munro saga (NYT). And more here. 3. Going to a more selective college causally reduces obesity. 4. What would the blitz primary be like? 5. Symmetry or death? 6. One prediction for the equilibriu … | Continue reading
Believe: Why Everyone Should be Religious, pre-order here. Self-recommending, some would say God recommends it too. Here is the chain of links to my earlier exchange with Ross on whether one should believe in God. The post New Ross Douthat book appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTI … | Continue reading
If you look at total output, Peter Coy notes that sub-Saharan Africa looks quite impressive with gains in total output exceeding that in the rest of the world. But almost all of this has come from using more inputs, especially land. If you look at output per unit of input, i.e. t … | Continue reading
An addiction crisis is gripping Sierra Leone, one of the world’s poorest nations, driven by a surge in use of “kush”, a toxic blend of psychoactive substances. As the West African nation struggles to boost its economy, thousands of unemployed young adults have turned to the poten … | Continue reading
That is the topic of my latest Bloomberg column, here is one bit: There is in fact a pronounced “baby bump” in December. The numbers show that induced deliveries and scheduled Caesarian section deliveries are higher than average toward the very end of the year. Why? In the US, th … | Continue reading
Here is the source tweet. The post How democratic are the French results? appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In reply to Hazel Meade. On a side not on Perot – even if ... by Hazel Meade In reply to Hazel Meade. Yes, well the grip of the Two Party ... by Hazel Meade I … | Continue reading