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How To Architect A Complex Web Table — Smashing Magazine
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/author/slava-shestopalov/smashingmagazine.com
Really systematic and concise presentation of considerations for web table design.
Forms & Tables
formsandtables.com
Design of enterprise applications involves a different set of assumptions: users are more knowledgeable about the tasks than app designers, users want AND need more information over “designed” information views, and tasks are repeated over and over again so efficiency is king.
Garbage collection uses a variety of algorithms; the Java virtual machine architecture doesn’t require a particular scheme.
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Java needs a garbage collector, but like an application calling an API, it only needs the services of a GC, not a specific implementation of one.
The static members of a class are initialized when the class is first loaded into the virtual machine.
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A constructor can invoke another overloaded constructor in its class using the self-referential method call this() with appropriate arguments to select the desired constructor. If a constructor calls another constructor, it must do so as its first statement
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What a wild and interesting behavior. I wonder why it was believed to be necessary.
Collections work only with object types, so primitives must be wrapped when stored in them.
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All primitive types in Java need wrappers to be put into collections. Only reason I haven’t noticed any other than ints is that ints and Strings are the only ones I tend to try.
you can add a bit of formatting to your numeric literals by utilizing the “_” (underscore) character between digits.
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Purely for legibility of large numbers or fp-numbers with large number of decimal digits.
numeric types default to the appropriate flavor of zero, characters are set to the null character ( \0 ), and boolean variables have the value false
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Member variables of a class are initialized to default values, but not variables declared within methods, conditional blocks, or loops.