Replacing ... With Boolean Expression

I found my IDE (IntelliJ) mentioning casually to me that I should replace this:

return municipality != null ? countSupply(municipality) > 0 : false;

With this:

return municipality != null && countSupply(municipality) > 0;

Trivial, I know, but most impressive of the IDE to catch that.

In the mean time, I'll patiently wait for the next version of the IDE that can actually do my programming for me.

Until that day, I'd better get back to work.

Deprecating Optional.get()

I found this link, and it struck a chord:
http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2016/04/deprecating-optional-get/.

Typescript

Our architect recently let us know that there is an Introduction to TypeScript¹ available on the edX Website².

Naturally, given that the TypeScript I am using at work is still very hard for me to understand, and given the fact that I wish to start using Angular 2 (which uses Typescript extensively) at home, I found this to be fascinating.

It was only a matter of minutes for me to enroll.

The course starts on May the 16th and is given by Microsoft experts and apparently the inventor of the TypeScript language.

I am quite looking forward to it and will let you know my thoughts at the end of the course.

References

[1] edX - Introduction to TypeScript

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-typescript-microsoft-dev201x-1

[2] edX - Free online courses from the world's best universities

https://www.edx.org/

Microsoft Virtual Academy

https://mva.microsoft.com/

Typescript Tutorial - Quick Start

http://www.typescriptlang.org/Tutorial

A little Architecture Lesson

I found this blogpost:

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2016/01/04/ALittleArchitecture.html

I think I still have a lot to learn.