JavaOne 2014. Wow, I see a lot of Things! with Internet! And Music! And Agile!
This is our yearly pilmigrade to JavaOne, where we get to meet good old friends, create new memories, and best of all, geek out for an entire week on Java! We got to learn about the big things waiting for Java (the Internet of Things), and got to talk about how people are making a...
Episode 44. Let’s show MicroServices some luv!
So it’s all the rage, and things have been getting smaller and slimmer (think your first cell phone), well, code is no different! Today we cover a trend on what is considered one of the better ways to scale, yet like everything else there are caveats. Bob is actually going to take us for a...
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Episode 43. Don’t cross the Streams (Streams in Java 8)
So now we deep dive into what the “Real” advantages of Java 8 are :). The lambdas were just a head-fake (to quote Randy Pausch), the real meat is all the support that was brought because of lambdas, most importantly Streams. Streams are now pervasive in Java 8, and thanks to the way it was...
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Homage to Basic
It’s been a while…it has a sense of the old. You see it, but when you see the Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, it transforms everything around it. The letters become big and blocky, the monitor becomes concave, and all computers are grey. The keyboard feels heavy and has a personality, oh how I...
Episode 42. Oh Lambda, Lambda, Lambda (no Omega Muu)
Lambdas… You have heard about it, it’s like those celebrities that are everywhere (Tom Selleck). Well, is time to go and actually meet the great start. In this episode, me (Freddy) and Bob go deep into Lambdas, what they really are (are they magical?) and why would you want to use them. So Join in...
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Episode 41. Ah, Java 8 (and what it brings) + Streams and OSGI
And we are ramping up again! This is an exciting time to be developing in Java. With the advent of Java 8, lambdas, streams, Jigzaw and the Internet of Things, we are coming back big! In this episode we introduce our co-host Bob Paulin, and offer a glimpse of Java 8, Jigsaw, Streams, and OSGI...
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Episode 40. Don’t you hate when static gives you an unexpected jolt? (Discussion on static methods,classes, and inner classes)
So you have programmed for a while, and may even never realized that you have been using them, but there are static methods (which in turn can create static classes), inner classes and static inner classes. Sometimes is hard to understand why or when to use these, but never fear! After listening to this episode...
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Oh My Gosh, is that Aarun Gupta, Bruno Souza, Danno Ferrin, Hanz Dockter, Charles Nutter and Yoav Landman? Session Previews (and reviews) from JavaOne
So, here’s the deal, I went down from Chicago to JavaOne 2013, and took Bob Paulin along. There are sooo many sessions and such great content that it was really hard to know when to start. So we decided to do something cool! We set-up shop in the heart of JavaOne and grab unsuspecting speakers...
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Episode 39. Do I really have to database it?
It happens all the time, you are working and suddenly you need to database an object. And maybe you have a fancy O/R Mapper or something like that, but we seldom ask ‘do we really need this in a relational format?’. There are actual alternatives (from byte serialization to xml, to, oh, my, NoSql databases)....
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JUG Post: Ok, I have a meeting, and am worried about no-show, what to do?
So you are a Java User Group leader, and as you look forward to the schedule presentation a sinking feeling creeps up. “How many people are really going to show up?”, “Am I going to have pizza for everyone?”, “Will my sponsors be glad or mad?” While not an exact science I went out and...