Philippe Back's answer: One would learn Smalltalk before Java so that one will be aware that there are other ways than factories, helpers, proxies, and such Java often used “idioms.”... (more…)

caliper - Caliper is a project for managing units of measure and the conversions between them.

Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and Co-Author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application... (more…)

Have you ever wanted to know how text editors work? How shell scripts change terminal text colors, update lines without scrolling, or move the cursor around?... (more…)

In this article we will explain how to emulate aspects of C#’s Language Integrated Query (LINQ) in Java using Code Reflection. Specifically, LINQ’s capability to enable translation of LINQ queries (C# expressions) to SQL statements. (more…)