Today I Learned

Thursday, February 11, 2016

That an Excel File (.xlsx) Is Just A Zip File

How Did I End Up Inside An Excel File? Well, I am a Java Developer for more than 4 years now and I am working on a project that involves reading an Excel file. I've been using Apache POI and am encountering problems loading large files. After a few hours of research, I ended up with recommendations of streaming the file and reading it as...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

That Underscores Are Valid In Java Numeric Values

Wasn't That Obvious While taking an exam, I encountered a question whose answer seems to be pretty obvious. Even at first glance, I said duh this is so obvious! Well it turns out when you're taking an exam and something seems so obvious,...
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