Top 5 Course to learn Apache Maven for Java Developers

The Apache Maven or commonly known as just "Maven" is an important tool for Java Programmers. It allows you to build your project, manage dependencies, generate documentation and lot more. I can vouch for Maven's usefulness because I have come from the pre-Maven world of Software development, where you need to manage all the JAR files required by your project. It may seem easy to you that just download the JAR file but it's not so easy in practice.  For example, you added a new library in your project say Spring framework which also needs log4j but you thought log4j is already there so you didn't do anything, only to realize that your application is not starting anymore and throwing long and convoluted errors. This can happen because of version mismatch like Spring needed a higher version of log4j than available in your project.

Top 6 Free Online Database and SQL Courses for Programmers

Hello guys, we are already in the first week of New year and everyone is talking about their goals to improve them as a better person, a better programmer, or get better health. If you have also made your goal and one of them is to improve your SQL skill then you have come to the right place because I am going to share some of the free courses to learn and master SQL this year. As you already know, SQL is one of the essential skill and much more important than any fancy library or framework you are thinking to learn.  If you ask me which two skill every programmer should have, I would say SQL and UNIX, these two have survived for a long time and will survive for many coming decades. SQL is also very interesting, once you get a hang of it, you would love to write queries and analyzing the performance of your queries.

How to fix invalid target release: 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, or 1.10 Error in Maven Build

If you are building your Java project using Maven, maybe in Eclipse or from the command prompt by running mvn install and your build is failing with an error like "invalid target release: 1.7" or "invalid target release: 1.8" then you have come to the right place. In this article, I'll show you the reason why this error occurs and how you can deal with these errors even with higher Java version like Java 9, 10 installed on your machine, or maybe with Java 11 in the coming month. The root cause of the problem is that you have specified a higher Java version in your pom.xml file for Maven compiler plugin then what Maven knows in your system, and that's why it's saying invalid target release.

Top 5 JUnit and Unit Testing Courses for Java Programmers

Hello guys, today, we'll talk about JUnit and Unit testing, one of the key skill for any Software developer. You may already know that JUnit and Mockito are two of the most popular testing libraries for Java applications and you will find them in almost every Java application classpath. I often meet and work with Java developers who know Java well but haven't written a single unit test. When I ask them why don't you write unit tests, they come up with many excuses like they don't have time for writing unit tests, there is always deadline pressure and some of the honest guys will tell you that they tried writing but give-up after 10-15 minutes due to difficulty in testing their code.

Maven - 10 Things Java developer should know

The Apache Maven is an essential tool for Java developers. It makes their life easy by allowing them to create a Java project faster by using a standard directory structure. It also helps them to download project dependency automatically. Not only that, but Maven also download transitive dependencies which relieve Java developers from the big headache of keep check of different versions of dependent libraries. For example, if your application is dependent on Spring framework but Spring is dependent on Log4j then you also need to download the correct version of Log4j JAR files for Spring MVC framework, Maven does this automatically for you.

A Better way to write Complex SQL queries for Programmers

There is no doubt that writing code is more art than science, every coder cannot write beautiful code which is both readable and maintainable, even with experience. In general, coding improves with experience when you learn the art of coding e.g. favoring composition over inheritance or coding for interface than implementation, but only a few developers able to master these techniques.  Same applies to SQL queries. The way you structure your query, the way you write it goes a long way to communicate your intent to the fellow developer. When I see SQL queries on emails from multiple developers, I can see the stark difference in their writing style.