10 Things You Didn’t Know About jOOQ

jOOQ has been around for a while - since around 2009 as a publicly available library, and since 2013 as a commercially licensed product. A lot of things have happened in 12 years. Here are 10 things that you maybe didn't know about jOOQ. 1. eq, ne, gt, ge, lt, le are inspired by XSLT … Continue reading 10 Things You Didn’t Know About jOOQ

A Bit of SQL History

SQL has been around for a while. Just recently, I've read this refreshing article about Codd's Relational Vision - Has NoSQL Come Full Circle? SQL is one of those awesome technologies that was invented almost two generations ago, and we're still using it in production and for new projects. It is both legacy and state-of-the-art. The … Continue reading A Bit of SQL History

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

Found a fun read on the net, recently ;-) http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html