One of the nasty little traps a Java developer can run into occurs when Collection.contains(Object) is not used with appropriate understanding. I demonstrate this potential trap in this post.

When using Java’s Map implementations, it is sometimes common to invoke the Map ‘s get (Object) method and to react differently based on whether the value returned is null or not. A common ...

Florian Mueller has been killing it these past few months with his analysis of various tech patent suits on his FOSSpatents blog, and today he's unearthed a pretty major bombshell: at least 43 ...