Reficio™ – Reestablish your software!

Browsing through old university folders I found interesting pieces of code that I wrote some time ago for a contest at IBM. Have you ever heard of a quine? If not, here’s the definition by Wikipedia:

In computing, a quine is a computer program which produces a copy of its own source code as its only [...]

Last weekend I returned to Krakow to take part in the Java Camp meeting. I decided to travel by car, which was actually an unfortunate decision. 300km, 2 traffic jams, 6 hours of driving – all these facts perfectly summarize my journey   The meeting was organized by PJUG (Polish Java User Group). [...]

I spent an additional day in Cracow to participate in the third edition of COOLuary organized by Grzegorz Duda and his Developer’s World. I was really excited to take part in it, since I have heard that the idea of unconference is gaining popularity nowadays.
The unconference consisted of four panel discussions (50 minutes each). Grails, [...]

During last weekend I had the possibility to attend the Java Developer’s Day 2009 in Krakow (link) . It was the third time that I took part in this conference (also in 2006, 2007). It was a great event with a keynote speech performed by Mark Richards – one of my idols! Not only is [...]

There are at least two ways of tokenizing Strings in Java. Simple examples work like a charm, but it is very easy to encounter some weird or unintuitive behavior while experimenting with complex regexes or some corner cases. Thus, in order to gain deeper knowledge, I am gonna dive into the implementations details and present [...]