Nicolai is a thirty year old boy, as the narrator would put it, who has found his passion in software development. He constantly reads, thinks, and writes about it, and codes for a living as well as for fun. Nicolai is the former editor of SitePoint's Java channel, writes The Java 9 Module System with Manning, blogs about software development on codefx.org, and is a long-tail contributor to several open source projects. You can hire him for all kinds of things.
Nicolai's articles
SitePoint is of course focused on web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or PHP. So what is the avid Java developer to do? Where are you gonna get your news?
All about Java 9: talks, articles, sites, blogs, courses, and books. If you want to get into Java 9, these resources are going to get you started.
Project Amber is the roof under which several productivity-oriented Java language JEPs like more type inference and pattern matching are developed.
Chances are you're using Git - a lot. Here's how to use it better! Aliases, settings, tools, and a little background about usability and documentation.
Java's reflection API allows the inspection and invocation of types, methods, fields, annotations, etc. without creating compile time dependencies.
Lots of great conferences have lots of great speakers. But does the lack of everyday developers speaking about their experiences feed the hype cycle?
Read Java Module System Hands-On Guide and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Java's switch statement allows easy selection of execution paths based on a variable's value. Switches can replace if-else-if chains.
Reflection wants to break into all code; encapsulation wants to give modules a safe space. How can this stand off in the Java module system be resolved?
Java's future is full of cool advances: data classes, value types, generics over primitives, pattern matching, etc. Let's peek into Java's future!
Java 9 has a lot to offer besides modularity: new language features and a lot of new or improved APIs, GNU-style command options, multi-release JARs, improved logging, and more.
Java 9 brings more than just modules: multi-release JARs, UTF-8 property files, Unicode 8.0, reserved stack space ... a lot goes on inside Java 9.
Summarizing where JUnit 5 is currently standing, discussing everything from API, extension model, and architecture to history, tool support, and open issues
A summary of the best JavaOne 2016 talks that discussed Java 8, Java 9 and Project Jigsaw, as well as Java EE 8.
Java 9 is coming! Besides Jigsaw it brings new language features and many new and improved APIs. This is the ultimate guide to all that's new in Java 9.
Last week was the Java Virtual Machine Language Summit (JVMLS) where renown experts present the newest developments of the JVM.
Self types let a class reference its own type. Java doesn't have them, but there is a trick.
Implementing Java's hashCode is a fundamental task for any Java developer, but the devil is in the details. Nicolai Parlog explains how to do it correctly.
Implementing equals and hashCode is a fundamental task for any Java developer. Nicolai Parlog explains how to do so correctly.