Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month where we interview someone we find exciting in our industry from a jOOQ perspective. This includes people who work with SQL, Java, Open Source, and a variety of other related topics. I'm very excited to … Continue reading jOOQ Tuesdays: Nicolai Parlog Talks About Java 9
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5 Things You May Not Have Known About jOOQ
jOOQ has been around for a while now (since 2009!) and by now we can say we've seen quite a bit of things about the SQL and Java languages. Some of our design decisions are particular in the way jOOQ thinks about programming with SQL. These include: Nullability (let's stop fighting it) Value types (let's … Continue reading 5 Things You May Not Have Known About jOOQ
10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language
This article is overdue. After the hype around the release of Kotlin 1.0 has settled, let's have a serious look at some Kotlin language features that we should have in Java as well. In this article, I'm not going to wish for unicorns. But there are some low hanging fruit (as far as I naively … Continue reading 10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language
Java 8 Friday: Language Design is Subtle
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: Language Design is Subtle