Recent Highlights
- Oct 29, 2016 Launched Programming.Guide
- Oct 10, 2016 Joined Palantir Technologies as a Forward Deployed Engineer
- May 17, 2016 Gave a talk, Lesser known features of the Java language, at the Stockholm Java User Group meetup.
- Sep 2, 2015 Created a new Meetup Group: Stockholm Language Runtime & VM Meetup
- May 2, 2015 Launched StackRating.com – an Elo based rating system for Stack Overflow users.
Contact
Bio & Résumé
Andreas Lundblad is a software developer with a passion for quality and correctness. After finishing his PhD in computer science in 2013, he joined the langtools team at Oracle to develop the javac compiler and other language tools. In 2016 he started at Palantir as a forward deployed engineer. Andreas is the 77th top user on Stack Overflow and was recently selected as one of Swedens top 10 developers under 30 in the 30under30 competition.
When he’s not writing code he’s attending programming meetups, practicing juggling or spending time with his wife and two daugters.
Résumé (updated August 10, 2016) and list of publications.
Blog / Stack Overflow
Featured blog entries and Stack Overflow answers.
- Nov 10, 2015 In Java, what's the difference between public, default, protected, and private?
- Jul 28, 2015 Decoding a partial QR code
- Jun 9, 2015 Why is executing Java code in comments with certain Unicode characters allowed?
- Oct 17, 2014 What is sjavac, who is it for and how do I use it?
- Jun 3, 2011 Do interfaces inherit from Object class in Java
- Oct 20, 2010 Handling InterruptedException in Java
- Sep 21, 2010 How to convert byte size into human readable format in java?
- May 6, 2010 Why must wait() always be in synchronized block
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My favorite talks / articles
- Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong, talk by Paul Phillips
- Paying Down Your Technical Debt, article by Jeff Atwood
- Java Generics gotchas, article by Brian Goetz
- The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy, article by Mark C. Chu-Carroll
- 10x is a State of Being, Not a Type of Engineer, article by Jeff Dickey
- Hyperproductive development, article by Jessica Kerr