Objectify Entity Subclass Migrations October 25, 2013·7 mins When using Objectify on Google App Engine, sometimes you want to introduce polymorphism after the fact. This entry shows how you can do that.
Reclaiming the Underscore August 01, 2013·2 mins Java 8 will start complaining about the use of an underscore by itself as a variable name.
JEP-171: Fence Intrisics Keep Memory In Line December 03, 2012·3 mins Doug Lea has proposed to promote memory fencing mechanics into implementation APIs in Java. I cover what this means.
The Madness of Tunneling JMX is Over! November 21, 2012·3 mins Accessing JMX interfaces has been phenomenally difficult over the years due to some limitations. With recent Java 7 builds, that is a thing of the past.
JEP-155: New Concurrency Utils Part 1 - Atomically Delicious November 18, 2012·9 mins Another batch of concurrency utilities is in the pipeline for Java as JEP-155. This is part one of a short summary of what is planned.