Ever since I built my own chess-engine and lost against the chess-engine of a colleague of mine who used bitboards I wanted to learn this bitboard stuff. Recently I saw the perfect opportunity to use bitboards myself. This blogpost will describe my experiences and hopefully will demystify the complexity of bitboards for you.
Assert Collections Fluently
The one thing I love the most about Java is the variety of libraries and frameworks available. A couple of weeks ago I was writing a lot of code involving Collections and was irritated about the bloated unit tests associated with it. When I could not stand it anymore, I started googling and stumbled upon a nice little library called FEST assertions and it totally made my day.