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. This is ...

I have a class, say TextHolder, that overrides Object.equals() to return true if both strings in each object are equal - <tt>new TextHolder("Hello World!").equals(new ...

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 Android ...