I have been following closely the Brexit referendum in the UK — I’m sure it comes as no surprise to those of you who know me. Because I am Romanian. And I am British. And I live in USA. And I care! I have followed the news online and listening to the likes of LBC […]
Monthly Archives: June 2016
Java Map and Subtleties of getOrDefault vs computeIfAbsent
I wrote recently about the new niceties in the Map interface that Java 8 brought to light where I’m highlighting in particular 2 new methods: getOrDefault and computeIfAbsent (see my previous post here about it). These provide a cleaner (and as it turns out faster too!) way of retrieving values from a Map instance. However, […]
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi…
If you don’t know your Latin by the way, the above translates to “Thus passes the glory of the world” (see this wikipedia page too). More than 4 years ago I crossed the Atlantic from London, UK and based myself in California, with a small startup, Cognitive Match, that came out of London and expanded into […]
Java 8 — Map and the Unknown “Niceties”
Despite Java 9 making its way into the real world nowadays, I see a lot of Java code out there still relying on the old-style Java 6-like syntax. And I’m not talking about the usage of lambda’s, stream’s and the likes, but rather some of the improvements Java 8 brought to existing classes in the […]
TuneIn Advertising — Highlight
Working in advertising, you’d think I have my ad blocker on 24/7 — but I don’t! 🙂 And the reason for it is because I am curious what other companies are doing in this space so while I am quite likely not the main target for their advertising messages, I am very very interested to […]
Of Customer Service — American Airlines (AA) Style
I am saddened to have to write this blog post — I don’t like taking space on my blog for complaining about companies! But in this case I feel it’s needed — and I would like to hear from others who had similar issues with this airline and find out how they dealt with it […]
Jamaica — May/2016
Yet another awesome holiday — first time ever in Jamaica in Montego Bay. And also first time swimming with dolphins!!! woohoo! some more (and grainy) photos from the resort: and a short video from the pool: