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Tips on IDE

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Cloud IDEs

General Purpose IDEs

  1. Visual Studio Code

  2. Lapce

  3. Eclipse (with all kinds of plugins)

  4. SpaceVim

JVM Languages

  1. IntelliJ IDEA (community edition available)

  2. Eclipse

Python

  1. Visual Studio Code

    The best IDE …

Directly Initialize a Hashmap in Java

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

The following code snippet in Java 9+ initialize an immutable HashMap with up to 10 elements.

Useful Java Libraries

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

General Purpose Java Libraries

Guava

Guava is a high-quality general purpose Java opensource library mainly developed by Google. It has good immutable collection implementations which are preferred to Java's built-in immutable …

SQL Database Client-server Protocols

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  1. Apache Arrow Flight is the future protocol for querying Databases! It use columnar data and leverages Apache Arrow to avoid unnecessary copy of data, which makes it able to query large …

Tips on JSON

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Shortcomes of JSON

It is suggested that you avoid using the JSON format! TOML and YAML are better text-based alternatives. If readability is not a concern, a binary serialization format is …