Fair warning, before I begin, this is a rant. I spent the last two weekends trying to put together a project using Spring Boot, JDBI, Postgres, and Liquibase. I spent the entire time fighting with the tooling. Spring, for all... (more…)

Get a detailed guide on the new Stream functionality in Java 8. See how various operations are supported and how lambdas and pipelines can be used to write concise code. Understand some characteristics of streams like lazy evaluation, parallel and infinit... (more…)

As I've said before, I'm working on a book about lifetimes. Or maybe it's just a long series - I haven't decided the specifics yet. Like every one of my series/book things, it's... (more…)

Stanford has decided to move away from Java in their intro courses. Surprisingly, they have decided to move to JavaScript.  Philip Guo showed that most top CS departments are moving to Python.  The… (more…)

🌪️ TornadoVM: A practical and efficient heterogeneous programming framework for managed languages - beehive-lab/TornadoVM... (more…)