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Time Unit Conversion in Java

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Java

Ever needed a utility which converts from one unit of time to another?
Well with Java 5 and higher, you won’t have to create your own conversion routine any longer.
Say for example you wanted to specify a value in seconds but the method you need to call expects a value in milliseconds (which is a [...]

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Java vs C# – switch statements

March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment · C#, Java

This is my first installment of a new blog series I’m planning to call Java vs C#.
Today, I’ll be discussing the behavior of “switch” statements in both Java and C#.
Consider this snippet for Java which prints out the values “1″, “2″ and “Default” when value = 1.
Since I did not add “break” statements after each [...]

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Content Assist / Code Completion problem with Eclipse and Netbeans

February 27th, 2008 · 13 Comments · Programming

I’ve had the weirdest problem the other day. It was the first time I went back to using our DELL E1405 after being very comfortable with my company issued D620 (which I now had to surrender to my former employer). Everything was working well until I noticed a simple but very annoying problem:
CTRL+SPACE for Eclipse [...]

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