What do people do when they run out of topics? They recycle previous topics and create top 10 lists. Here is a list of the top 10 most popular articles from the jOOQ blog: Top 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss A fun, not so serious parody on what is being discussed on reddit's … Continue reading Top 10 Most Popular Articles on the jOOQ Blog
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Java 8 Friday: The Best Java 8 Resources – Your Weekend is Booked
At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we're really into jOOQ's fluent API and query DSL, we're absolutely thrilled about what Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. Every Friday, we're showing you a couple of nice new tutorial-style Java 8 features, which take advantage of lambda expressions, method references, default methods, the Streams … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: The Best Java 8 Resources – Your Weekend is Booked
Do You Want to be a Better Software Developer?
Bloggers are a different breed. They're spending a lot of time investigating issues in a systematic way that is presentable to others. And then they share - mostly just for the fun of it and for the rewarding feeling sharing gives them. Whenever we google for a technical issue, chances are high that we stumble … Continue reading Do You Want to be a Better Software Developer?
On Friday Dec 13th 2013, Things *WILL* go Wrong
We're writing for @JavaAdvent, on Friday Dec, 13th 2013. Superstitious? We are and we'll give some fun and scary insights! Stay tuned and follow @JavaAdvent to be ready for an interesting, geeky Holidays season! See also posts from 2012.
On Degrading Merchandise Quality
I've just replaced 4 halogen bulbs in my appartment. When I threw the old ones into our recycling bin, I've noticed that there were already around 8 bulbs in there. From the last 5-6 months, only! This made me sad, as it shows how our consumer society works. Read on to learn how jOOQ strives to … Continue reading On Degrading Merchandise Quality
A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
A recent event has triggered a lot of interest in the debate about the good and the bad parts of Open Source. Oracle's attack on Open Source. For large corporations who aren't Red Hat, taking a stand on the topic is far from easy. Oracle used to sell only commercial software, but has since acquired … Continue reading A Significant Difference Between Open Source and Commercial Software
The End of US Internet Governance
This is huge news! The Internet will finally become the global network it could've always been as ICANN, IANA, IETF and others simultaneously move away from US unilateral Internet governance. http://www.internetgovernance.org/2013/10/11/the-core-internet-institutions-abandon-the-us-government/ I guess, in the end, the NSA did us all a "favour" with their spying. If this will make the internet better, or if … Continue reading The End of US Internet Governance
This Beats Everything: Koding in the Cloud
OK, now this beats everything I've seen so far. I can now code in the cloud with Koding.com. From a first, very quick glance, I get: A VM with a terminal (looks like a Debian distribution) PHP and all sorts of stuff that is already installed An app store for apps like PostgreSQL or MySQL … Continue reading This Beats Everything: Koding in the Cloud
Tech Pro: Next Generation Social Content Syndication
Some established content syndicators and discussion platforms include DZone and JCG, my two blog syndication partners. For a content producer like me, such platforms are very interesting, as 10% of their traffic eventually reaches my blog. But there's room for improvement with these syndicators, as their appearance is not up to date with the latest … Continue reading Tech Pro: Next Generation Social Content Syndication
Awesome Tweets About Recent Blog Post
When writing blog posts, most people are striving to create great content. Creating great content is very hard. Most often, content is niche content, irrelevant content, overlooked content, boring content, advertising content. But every now and then, great content is created. Often by accident or by luck. How to recognise great content? By checking twitter. … Continue reading Awesome Tweets About Recent Blog Post