My summer at Holden Village

Assign a keyboard shortcut to quickly fullscreen an OSX window

I like to use hotkeys for frequent tasks whenever possible. With that in mind, I created a hotkey to toggle applications as fullscreen in OSX. This is an eas...

The Google Guava Optional class

Background

Java Generics

Background

Creating an ad hoc VPN on OSX using reverse SSH tunneling and a launch daemon

Are you annoyed by setting up VPNs?

The Singleton design pattern in Java

In Java, sometimes it can be useful to have exactly one instance of a class. This is known as a Singleton pattern. A logger, print spooler, or window manager...

Using meta classes in Python to create a Constants class

I was writing some Python code for a project and needed a class to hold constants. Unfortunately, Python doesn’t natively support constants or static classes...

Experimenting with static methods in Python

I was writing a class to construct CURL requests in Python. I decided to experiment with making one of the methods static. To do this, simply place a “@stati...

Functional programming in Java: using Predicates

Functional Programming

Use Object.equals() instead of String.equalsIgnoreCase() to avoid a NullPointerException in Java

A NullPointerException in Java is thrown when an object is expected as a parameter, but null is passed instead. To avoid this when doing String comparisons, ...