Once upon a time, I was a Toastmaster. Here are some things I learned from my time at the club. The primary goal of a speech is to deliver a message. Keep your language simple and understandable. You ...

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Kamila Marzynska is the banquet's toastmaster, and her job is to guide the evening, introduce laureates, lead the royal toast and welcome guests. “The dinner, of course, is magical because the ...

Roaster (formerly known as java-parser) is a library that allows easy parsing and formatting of java source files. Roaster introduces a fluent interface to manipulate Java source files, like adding ...