The programming language C# version 3.0 was released on 19 November 2007 as part of .NET Framework 3.5. It includes new features inspired by functional programming languages such as Haskell and ML, and is driven largely by the introduction of the Language... (more…)

An updated version of the classic "Basic Computer Games" book, with well-written examples in a variety of common programming languages - coding-horror/basic-computer-games... (more…)

Monica Beckwith and Anil Kumar discuss Java JDK 8u LTS to latest JDK 13 major changes as well as impact on performance and responsiveness to backported JDK 11u LTS. (more…)

TLDR; Java has a few different ways of comparing variables and objects with one another. ==, equals(), compareTo() and compare(). Java provides various operators such as == and != which check for equality and inequality respectively. They are used in a pr... (more…)

Reading a blog post about what’s coming up in JDK 16 recently, I learned that one of the new features is support for Unix domain sockets (JEP 380). Before Java 16, you’d have to resort to 3rd party libraries like jnr-unixsocket in order to use them. If y... (more…)