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One of the highlights of the Friends of OpenJDK room at FOSDEM 2021 was Marco Vermeulen, the creator of SDKMAN, talking about SDKMAN.
Check it out here, in the Foojay YouTube channel:
Tip: More content from the Foojay room at FOSDEM 2021 is here.
Even more, including cool techy prizes, in this year's edition of the event, as described here.
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Contributing to OpenJDK Mission Control
Since this month is Hacktoberfest, I thought it would be a good idea to talk a bit about how to contribute to the OpenJDK Mission Control project.
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Starting a JavaFX Project with Gluon Tools
Here on foojay.io you can already find two posts by Carl Dea to get you started with JavaFX.
In this post, I want to show you yet another approach that uses the tools provided by Gluon, who are the maintainers, and the driving force behind OpenJFX.
The Gluon start website and the plugin allow you to get started with a new JavaFX project in a few clicks.
Thanks to the amazing work done by the Gluon team this also gives you a quick-start for the creation of a mobile application which can be built for both Android and iOS.
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Why I Love IntelliJ IDEA for Java Development
If you’re a Java developer like me, you like to crank out code and get shit done. I like many things about IntelliJ IDEA, but I thought it’d be fun to write about the ones that make me most productive.
When I first started doing Java development in the late 90s, I used HomeSite as my editor. HomeSite was an HTML editor initially developed by Nick Bradbury. I liked it because it defaulted to a view of your code rather than being WYSIWYG like Dreamweaver and FrontPage. It’s funny to look back now and laugh about how inefficient I was: I used to google for import statements, then copy/pasted them into the editor.
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