Articles on Java
Tech Consulting: 2016 Year in Review
As a consulting firm that’s been around for 17 years, Carbon Five has a unique perspective on trends in digital product development. In this post we look back on 2016 and reflect on what we’ve seen in the industry, and where we think it’s headed. Here are the the top five trends we saw in …
Carbon Five & Heroku
Check out the latest Heroku case study, featuring Carbon Five. The article explains how we build 35+ Apps a year and use Heroku for 90% of our software projects for wide range of clients. Courtney, Erik, and David share their thoughts on the platform’s support for rapid deployment, language flexibility, and ease of use. Find out …
Null-Pointer Exceptions Considered Annoying
If computer programs have needs, data is one of them. Usually, this data is available, but sometimes it’s not. Why not? Who knows. It’s just not there. What’s worse, this situation is common and, when improperly handled, results in runtime exceptions. To explore this problem, let’s contrive an example using Java 8. Suppose we …