At Devoxx and JFall, we talked with Georgios Diamantopoulos, Lutske de Leeuw, Tom Cools, Jessica Siewert, and Rijo Sam about staying physically and mentally healthy as software developers. There are many topics to handle, like the impact of AI on …
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Why Java 8 is a Ticking Time Bomb Hiding Within Your Organization
When I spoke to developers at Devoxx in Belgium in October, I was surprised to learn how many of them are maintaining systems that are still running on Java 8 (released in 2014). One of them even still has a …
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Foojay Podcast #60: Proud Of Belgium – Devoxx, JobRunr, Timefold, OpenJDK Mobile, OpenJFX, Thymeleaf, and htmx
Belgium might be tiny, but we have a strong Java Community! As I was doing interviews at Devoxx in October, I met several of these people, and we talked about their projects, how you can get involved in OpenJDK, and …
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How we almost missed a plane in Kazakhstan, but OpenJDK could have saved us…
A family vacation as a topic for a Foojay blog post? Really? Yes, because, very unexpectedly, it was influenced by a change in the OpenJDK project… Traveling to Kazakhstan In August, our family vacation brought us to Kazakhstan. An important …
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JavaFX Links of October 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of October 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. With some very nice new content for JFX Central itself, see at end of the list… Did we miss anything? Is there anything …
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Foojay Podcast #59: DevRel Explained and How to Become a Conference Speaker
What do people who have Developer Relations as their job description do? And how do you become a conference speaker? You’ll learn in this Foojay podcast! At Devoxx in Belgium, I got to talk to Josh Long, Baruch, Pratik Patel, …
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Deep dive into bits, bytes, shorts, ints, longs, signed, and unsigned with Java
On the Pi4J discussion list, someone recently asked what the best and easiest way is in Java to convert a byte value. In Java, there is no distinction between signed and unsigned bytes, which can be confusing. My book “Getting …
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Changes Included in Release 24.08 of Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK
Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK, the optimized Java runtime within Azul Platform Prime, has reached the release of the 24.08 Stable Release line. Zing builds are available in two versions: As stream builds happen in a fixed schedule, all changes …
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Foojay Podcast #58: How Java Developers Can Secure Their Code
Three years after Log4Shell caused a significant security issue, we still struggle with insecure dependencies and injection problems. In this podcast, we’ll discuss how developers can secure their code. I talked with three authors who posted a security and code …
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JavaFX Links of September 2024
Here is the overview of the JavaFX LinksOfTheMonth of September 2024, published on jfx-central.com during this month. Did we miss anything? Is there anything you want to have included in one of the next overviews? Let us know via [email protected]. …
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Azul Brings Java from Edge to Cloud
In Part 1 of this series, “A Fresh Look at Embedded Java,” we explored the use of Java for embedded use cases. Azul and its Zulu Build of OpenJDK (Zulu) are the ideal partners in this part of the software …
