When you've been writing Java for a while switching to Python can make you a little anxious. Not only are you learning a new language with new idioms and tools, you're also dealing with a language with far less built-in safety. No more type checks, no mor... (more…)

One of the things I like best about the option to write stubs for service virtualization in code is that by doing so, you’re able to store them in and access them through the same version con… (more…)

nudge4j is a piece of java code to let you hack your JVM from the browser. (more…)

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…)

Java 9 introduces unified logging, a central mechanism configurable with -Xlog to observe class loading, threading, garbage collector, module system, etc. (more…)