This post is mostly targeted to Java developers working on the financial sector, especially with systems that need to do payments and specifically using the IBAN/BIC standard. So today I was browsing through some legacy code, that was performing some sort of validations on String representations of IBAN accounts. I …

it's been almost 2 weeks that I have completely switched over to IntelliJ as my main Java IDE at home and at work. So far so good, here are my initial findings. Migration: I took me a couple of hours to migrated my projects over. Eventually if your project is already Mavenized, things are simple, no risk involved. …

I am a regular Eclipse user, for almost 10 years now, it is not bad but in these recent years I feel like, I code towards a tool that is insisting on doing it's thing, maintaining it's state, invoking and running stuff that I can not control, on a daily basis. I have been spending more and more time trying to find, …