Subscribe to this newsletter here Tweet of the Day Our customers, users, and followers are sharing their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are: Mahmud who cannot wait to make more magic with jOOQ. https://twitter.com/bigthingist/status/455985890125287424 Peter Kopfler who, after hearing about jOOQ and SQL in Vienna is thrilled to take a deep dive into the … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: April 16, 2014 – Monthly, Yearly, Perpetual licenses now available
How can I do This? – With SQL of Course!
Haven't we all been wondering: How can I do this? I have these data in Excel and I want to group / sort / assign / combine ... While you could probably pull up a Visual Basic script doing the work or export the data to Java or any other procedural language of choice, why … Continue reading How can I do This? – With SQL of Course!
Java Rocks More Than Ever
On the TIOBE index, Java and C have been sharing the #1 and #2 rank for a long time now, and with the recent GA release of the JDK 8, things are not going to get any worse for our community. Java simply rocks! And it's the best platform to build almost any of your … Continue reading Java Rocks More Than Ever
The Top 10 Productivity Booster Techs for Programmers
This is the list we've all been waiting for. The top 10 productivity booster techs for programmers that - once you've started using them - you can never do without them any longer. Here it is: 1. Git Before, there were various version control systems. Better ones, worse ones. But somehow they all felt wrong … Continue reading The Top 10 Productivity Booster Techs for Programmers
Java 8 Friday: The Dark Side of Java 8
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. Java 8 Friday Every Friday, we're showing you a couple of nice new tutorial-style Java 8 features, which take advantage of lambda expressions, extension methods, and … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: The Dark Side of Java 8
jOOQ Newsletter: April 2, 2014
subscribe to this newsletter here Tweet of the Day Our customers, users, and followers are sharing their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are: Arturo Tena who simply loves jOOQ 3.3, and expresses this with a creative transformation of our version numbering scheme: https://twitter.com/arturotena/status/434502197217202176 Florin T.Pătraşcu who cannot stop integrating jOOQ with MicroMVC, because he discovers more … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: April 2, 2014
Spring API Bingo
For the occasion of today's date, I've just invented a fun game. The Spring API Bingo! How does it work? Let us write the following little piece of code: public class SpringAPIBingo { public static void main(String[] args) { // Any similarities with actual API // (e.g. that of Spring) are completely // accidental List<String> … Continue reading Spring API Bingo
Open Source Completely Underestimates Contributor License Agreements
Reddit's /r/ProgrammerHumor has recently treated us to this politically incorrect and quite childish little Open Source rant Obviously, like most "discussions" on reddit and specifically those discussions about Open Source, things got quickly very serious with people referring to Richard Stallman and how these critiques are childish and immature and what's-wrong-with-our-industry™ etc. Let's not delve … Continue reading Open Source Completely Underestimates Contributor License Agreements
Java 8 Friday: Optional Will Remain an Option in Java
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. Java 8 Friday Every Friday, we're showing you a couple of nice new tutorial-style Java 8 features, which take advantage of lambda expressions, extension methods, and … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: Optional Will Remain an Option in Java
CUME_DIST(), a Lesser-Known SQL Gem
When doing reporting or statistics with SQL, you better know your window functions. There are many of them, and few SQL developers know about them. CUME_DIST() is one such function. We've recently re-discovered it on Stack Overflow. The following query yields two times the same result for fraction1 and fraction2: SELECT ename, CUME_DIST() OVER (ORDER … Continue reading CUME_DIST(), a Lesser-Known SQL Gem