Ken Kousen
My books
- Mockito Made Clear
- Help Your Boss Help You, also on Amazon
- Kotlin Cookbook
- Modern Java Recipes
- Gradle Recipes for Android
- Making Java Groovy
FYI, my last name is pronounced as though it was spelled "cousin," like the relative. Go figure.
My one-person company is Kousen IT, Inc.. I say "Kousen Eye-Tee", but my wife calls it "Kousen IT" like it was from the Addams Family
Recent newsletters
- Tales from the jar side: Off-by-one errors and 5 years of Tftjs, 1 year and 1000 subs on YT, Substack issues, and a Holiday edition of tweets, toots, and skeets
- Tales from the jar side: The Gemini rigged demo, the Gemini Java API (sort of), Java jokes, The kids are all right, and the usual assortment of tweets, toots, and skeets
- Tales from the jar side: Claude in the Spring, Plagiarism on YouTube, Upcoming milestone, and the usual silly tweets, toots, and skeets
- Tales from the jar side: Google Bard is stupid, Claude AI is not (but can't do math), and the usual silly tweets, toots, and skeets
- Tales from the jar side: When custom GPTs won't behave, Spring Boot 3.2 abandons half the Java market, Q* and OpenAI, and the usual silly tweets, toots, and skeets
Recent blog posts
- A Really Easy Way to Add AI to Java
- When custom GPT’s don’t cooperate
- The Magic of AI Services with LangChain4J
- Tftjs Newsletter Video for Oct 30, 2023
- Tftjs Newsletter Video for Oct 23, 2023
Some info:
- You can always find out what I'm doing from my free newsletter, Tales from the jar side
- I also manage the Tales from the jar side YouTube channel
- My blog contains posts from my work using Java, Groovy, Kotlin, and more