The last couple of weeks I have been playing around with compression/decompression algorithms. This is a field that has always intrigued me. It gives me a magical feeling, like a magician you wave some algorithm around and suddenly the files shrink and bytes dissapear. With the same motion you can undo all your actions and [...]
Its a problem I encouter in most JEE projects I’ve worked on so far. Handling null-values. But why is this a problem? And what strategies can we follow to reduce the problem? That is what I’m trying to find out in this post.
