I’ve seen several programmers struggle with a similar question. They create a collection of some sort, and add items to it in a loop. When they finish the loop and try to use the collection (or list, or array, or set, or map) it looks like every single object in the collection is the same [...]

This article on Making Small Commits lead me to think about when to commit and when to branch a code base. Branching is the black art of version control, and anyone who has tried it at least once has probably had the nightmare that arises from having to merge code back in. It’s an art [...]