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Bill Bejeck

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Bill Bejeck writes Random Thoughts on Coding, a personal blog at codingjunkie.net about programming. Since 2011, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.

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2011–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2012

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this Bill Bejeck post as a Java 7 overview covering try-with-resources, strings in switch, multicatch and the diamond operator. The one comment quotes it as a source and does not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Personal blog for Bill Bejeck's technical rambling

What Hacker News says?

  1. pooriaazimi · 2012-02-12
    I've been living under a rock(1) and haven't heard about all those new additions in Java 7: > The additions with this release are useful, for example Try with resources – having closable resources handled automatically from try blocks, Strings in switch statements, multicatch for Exceptions and the ‘<>‘ operator for working with generics. Just copied them from http://codingjunkie.net/java7-file-revolution/ , for the…

    Comment linking /java7-file-revolution/

    on “What's New In Java 7: Copy and Move Files and Directories”
  2. mindcrime · 2012-02-12

    Submitted What's New In Java 7: Copy and Move Files and Directories as a story · 37 points

    HN discussion
  3. ssutch · 2012-01-09

    Submitted Event Programming with Google Guava EventBus as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  4. rmoff · 2024-11-12

    Submitted Lessons Learned Writing a Book as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. StylifyYourBlog · 2016-01-04

    Submitted Guava ImmutableCollections, Multimaps and Java 8 Collectors as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. cryptoz · 2013-01-14

    Submitted MapReduce Algorithms – Secondary Sorting as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. denzil_correa · 2012-09-26

    Submitted Working Through Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. DiabloD3 · 2011-11-30

    Submitted Concurrency with Google Guava Futures as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. bbejeck · 2011-11-13

    Submitted Android Drag and Drop (Part 3) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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