Every now and then I get my hands on a Java project that requires to talk to a database. Depending on who of my team mates I'm talking to, database experts or Java developers, there exist different views on how to model and access data. In my early days a... (more…)

Three Dutch shipwrecks considered war graves vanish from the bottom of the Java Sea.

As with many programming languages such as C, C++ and C# (known commonly as the C family), it is possible to “overload methods” (sometimes called functions if not used in classes, such as C) in order to take a different amount of parameters so that they c... (more…)

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

I've recently had my Mac scanned for a corporate compliance test and the older Java 8 JDK has come up as a failure point. Even though I had newer JDKs installed, it meant that I had to go in and uninstall the one that was making me fail this test. There i... (more…)