In several years of developing, reading, reviewing, and maintaining hundreds of thousands of lines of Java code, I have become accustomed to seeing certain “red flags” in Java code that often (but ...

In the post Common Red Flags in Java Development I looked at some practices that are not necessarily wrong or incorrect in and of themselves, but can be indicative of potentially greater problems.

️ A bad Java developer is not defined by lack of knowledge alone. ️ The real danger is in habits: blind framework use, unreadable code, no trade-off thinking, weak debugging, and no respect for ...

Shipped FlagZen 1.1.0 this weekend. It's an open-source feature flag framework for Java that does something most flag libraries don't: it treats flags as a code organization pattern, not a ...