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. For our Java 8 series, we're honoured to host a very relevant guest post by Dr. Ming-Yee Iu. Dr. Ming-Yee Iu completed a PhD on Database … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: Java 8 Will Revolutionize Database Access
A Better Query Language than SQL
Leland Richardson, Founder of Tech.Pro has recently published a very interesting article about BQL, his visions of a better query language (than SQL). The deciding feat of his new language proposal is the fact that it is really a superset of SQL itself. SQL is a very rich and expressive language to query relational databases. … Continue reading A Better Query Language than SQL
A SQL query DSL for Scala by ScalikeJDBC
There are a tremendous amount of SQL APIs natively written in Scala. Manuel Bernhardt has summarised a nice collection in his a post. Another collection of Scala SQL APIs can be seen in this Stack Overflow question. One API that we want to focus on in particular is ScalikeJDBC (licensed ASL 2.0), which has recently … Continue reading A SQL query DSL for Scala by ScalikeJDBC
Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lean Concurrency
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. We have blogged a couple of times about some nice Java 8 goodies, and now we feel it's time to start a new blog series, the... … Continue reading Java 8 Friday Goodies: Lean Concurrency
The 10 Commandments of Programming
Patterns 34:29 As Turing descended from Mount Compute - with the two iPads of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain - he did not realize that the skin of his blog shone as a result of his Compiling the Code. Patterns 35:1 Turing assembled the entire Geek community and said to … Continue reading The 10 Commandments of Programming
jOOQ Newsletter: March 12, 2014
Subscribe to the newsletter here Tweet of the Day Our customers, users, and followers are sharing their love for jOOQ to the world. Here are: Dominik Dorn who finds jOOQ awesome. As simple as that! https://twitter.com/domdorn/status/434259335095410688 Mariusz Nosiński who cannot believe he hasn't discovered jOOQ before. https://twitter.com/marioosh/status/441475404579102720 Thanks for the shouts, guys! jOOQ and Scala In … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: March 12, 2014
Java 8 Friday Goodies: SQL ResultSet Streams
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. We have blogged a couple of times about some nice Java 8 goodies, and now we feel it's time to start a new blog series, the... … Continue reading Java 8 Friday Goodies: SQL ResultSet Streams
An Open Source License to Increase Your Street Credibility
Many of us geeks don't really care about users, tractions, etc. when we spam GitHub with our little toy projects. I mean, who knows if we really have the time to maintain them? Certainly, there's almost no money in it anyway, so we might just as well give it away for free (e.g. jOOX). Nonetheless, … Continue reading An Open Source License to Increase Your Street Credibility
Modern Shareholder Value Hopes
So, everyone is discussing the $19B Facebook / Whatsapp deal, discussing it on every media. And Zuck says it was actually a bargain. Yeah right. A bargain. Read CNN's 10 other things Facebook could have bought with $19 billion. We at Data Geekery are more down to earth, selling actual value to our own customers. … Continue reading Modern Shareholder Value Hopes
Java 8 Friday Goodies: Easy-as-Pie Local Caching
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. We have blogged a couple of times about some nice Java 8 goodies, and now we feel it's time to start a new blog series, the... … Continue reading Java 8 Friday Goodies: Easy-as-Pie Local Caching