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End of Line blog

Thoughts on software development, by Adam Ruka

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Jilt 1.8 and 1.8.1 released!

Jilt, my Java library for generating Builder pattern classes, continues to evolve with new features and improvements. The latest releases, 1.8 and 1.8.1, bring incremental processing support for Gradle, better code coverage handling, and a fix for recursive generic type bounds.


How I use Slack effectively at work

Slack (or one of its clones) has become an indispensable tool at many companies. In this article, I outline a few tips that help me make the most out of it, while avoiding its many pitfalls.


Jilt 1.7 released!

Jilt, my Java library for generating Builder pattern classes, keeps receiving more attention, and thus more feature requests and bug reports. The latest release, 1.7, addresses several raised issues: easier exclusion of the Builder generated code from code coverage, better support for changing the Builder class name with meta-annotations, and a fix for using toBuilder on a class with a private constructor.


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