I’ve got a few speaking engagements coming up that I thought it might be worth publicising a bit further. They’re all within just over a week of each other, which is going to be somewhat tiring, but… Here they are, in chronological order: Progressive .NET 2017 Progressive .NET 2017 will be held on September 13th-15th … Continue reading Upcoming speaking engagements →

9 days ago, I posted Imposter Syndrome (part 1) and then immediately listened to Heather Downing‘s excellent NDC talk on the topic. This is the “reflections afterwards” post I’d expected to write (although slightly more delayed than I’d hoped for). I’m not going to try to recap Heather’s talk, because that wouldn’t do justice to … Continue reading Imposter Syndrome (part 2) →

Note: this is a purely personal post. It has no code in. It’s related to the coding side of my world more than the rest of who I am, so it’s in my coding blog, but if you’re looking for code, just move on. As part of a Twitter exchange, I discovered that Heather Downing … Continue reading Imposter syndrome (part 1) →

This is a brief post documenting a very weird thing I partly came up with on Stack Overflow today. The context is this question. But to skip to the shock, we end up with code like this: That just shouldn’t happen. You shouldn’t be able to create an instance of an open type – a … Continue reading Surprise! Creating an instance of an open generic type →

This post is an attempt to reduce the number of times I need to explain things in Stack Overflow comments. You may well be reading it via a link from Stack Overflow – I intend to refer to this post frequently in comments. Note that this post is mostly not about text handling – see … Continue reading All about java.util.Date →