BoxLang 1.14.0: Sets, Ranges, Inner Classes, and a Runtime That Talks Back
BoxLang has never stood still, but 1.14.0 is something different. This is the release where the language stops filling gaps and starts …
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Nulling Out References Won't Help Your Garbage Collector
Learn how intricate and amazing the JVM is and how much cognitive load that it takes on so you rarely have to think about things that steal …
The Java Story: A Film About All of Us
The official Java documentary premieres July 17 on YouTube. Watch the trailer, meet the guests, and join the live chat with James Gosling.
What's New in actions/setup-java 5.4 and 5.5: Signature Verification, Kona JDK, and a Better Maven Experience
If you build Java on GitHub Actions, actions/setup-java is almost certainly the first step in your workflow. It installs a JDK, wires up …
Why We Moved Our Timefold Java Worker Pods from AMD to ARM64
AMD hyperthreading caused solver performance variance in our Java based cloud pods. Switching to ARM instances doubled throughput per …
Closing the Visual Gap Between the Official Lottie Webplayer and Lottie4J
A Lottie library is only as good as its output looks. If an animation renders differently in Lottie4J than it does in the official web …
1,585 viewsA Week of Housekeeping: What Changed on Foojay.io
Running a community website is a bit like maintaining a codebase: the content that matters most is never completely done. And if you don't …
Getting Started with Exposed: Kotlin ORM Made Simple
Learn how to use Exposed, a lightweight SQL ORM for Kotlin. Discover DSL and DAO APIs, database support, and setup your first project.
Funding Open Source Without The Bait And Switch: Analytics, Native Maps, TV And More
This week adds a privacy-first analytics API, a pure-vector map engine with pluggable native providers, Apple TV and Android TV support with …
This Dependency Update Looked Exactly Like an Account Takeover
I pointed a scanner I have been building at an old Spring project, and it flagged javax.activation. The bump was 1.1-rev-1 to 1.1.1. Prior …