Saturday, March 3, 2012

Stackoverflow -- a great resource to help solve common Java problems

Picture this.  You need to format dates a certain way for an application your building.  You know how to use the Calendar and Date classes but are a little fuzzy on the details, so you fire up google and do some searches, and within a few minutes you have found an answer and can move on.

One of the first sites that always pops up near the top of these types of search(for solving these routine problems) is http://stackoverflow.com/.  I can't emphasize enough what a great resource it has been for me over the years.  I can usually find an answer within minutes and quickly code a solution or integrate it into a class method that I building for an application.

USE IT.  You'll be glad you did!

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