During JavaOne I attended a variety of sessions covering topics from how to use Docker containers to potential issues you may face when migrating to Java 9. One talk that we found interesting was Twelve Ways to Make Code Suck Less by Ward Cunningham whom highlighted the importance of having good code quality. According to Cunningham code quality…
Category Archives: Version Control
Version control is a system that records changes to a file or set of files over time so that you can recall specific versions later.
NetBeans Version Control Feature With Mercurial Support.
In this article I will be talking about NetBeans Version Control Feature with Mercurial Support. Version control is one/if not my favourite feature in NetBeans, I honestly do not know how I have ever managed to cope without it prior to my job at IDRSolutions What is Version Control? Here at IDRSolutions we are all using NetBeans on…
Top 5 Free Hosted Version Control Sites Compared
Recently, some friends and I decided to get together and make a good old-fashioned text adventure game. We could have used an existing engine, but that would be no fun! The problem, though, is this: because of my work on our Java PDF library and Pdf2Html Converter, I’m used to a certain level of quality…
Five reasons to spring clean your code
March in the UK is usually the time Spring arrives in the UK (although we seem to be back to blizzard conditions today!). A spring clean is a good tidy up to get rid of clutter, and it may well be a good time to consider it for your code for 5 reasons:- 1. Hindsight…
Fixing bugs in Java JPEG2000
As its name suggests this image compression coding system was created in 2000 by Joint Photographic Experts Group Committee. JPEG2000 image compression technique has significant amount of advantages as compared to JPEG. JPEG2000 has better performance when the image is downscaled to lower bit rates. Up scaling downscaled image barely loses visual pixel display(known as Lossless…