Self-extracting install shell script with Gradle

My road to Gradle was much longer than I wanted. Now I use it on the project at the company and I definitely don’t want to go back. Sure, I got used to Maven and we got familiar - although I never loved it (often on the contrary). I’m not sure I love Gradle (yet), …

Expression evaluation in Java (1)

There are times when you need to evaluate some expression in your program. Sometimes you can create something that is not text/string based, that is you construct the expression in a different way - typically so it is easier to validate, evaluate, etc. Sometimes, nothing beats the textual representation. It’s easy and quick to write, …