Araqnid.org

Just a repository of things I've written and/or presentations I've given.

The average volcanic man: Demonstrating who collation order depends on locale (language), not just character set.
Joda-Time becomes Java.Time: Written off the back of attending a LJC talk given by Stephen Colebourne, outlining what's in the JDK8 time library and how it differs from the familiar Joda-Time library.
Shoot to kill: net.sf.json: Explaining why I excised the old json-lib library from our applications.
Tucker-Guice: A Guice extension that I wrote to ease writing Tucker status pages with less boilerplate.
Joda-Time: you might be overusing DateTime: Another presentation about Joda-Time, specifically about why DateTime is often the wrong type to use for storing date/time information, even though it's often the beginning and end of many introductions to the library.
Written up as a TIMGroup blog post
How to write a Comparator (and how not to) (Java8 edition): Showing how the factory and default methods on Comparator can be used to build logical instances, and avoid horrors.
HTTP/2: An introduction to HTTP/2 and how it differs from previous versions.
Clocks and time services: The ubiquitous Clock/SystemClock components, please stop writing them.
Configuration defaults considered harmful: Fail faster when building configuration to avoid having to debug failing later
Goodbye PermGen, hello Metaspace: Finally catching up with some of the changes to JVM memory allocation in Java 8
Gradle publishing to Maven Central frustration: Getting artifacts built by Gradle and its maven-publish plugin to Maven Central
Eat What You Kill: Pools of worker threads may not be quite what you want
Step away from the Future: Stay away from JDK5 Futures, use CompletableFuture instead
Observables for everything!: Use Observables for asynchronous tasks in Javascript, even simple ones
Unleashing Zalgo: This is in fact about conventions for using callbacks in Javascript.
Hooks and Render Props to replace HoCs: How using React hooks simplified the UI boilerplate of md-admin (some more)

Here's a cycling trip I'm planning on doing: EuroVelo 9