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Welcome to the fifth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 23. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to Java, feel free to submit it to the channel bot, with ~submit and a URL to the interesting thing, or you can also write an article for the channel blog...
Oct 23, 2017 — 9 minute(s) readpicocli, a command-line parser. Apache-licensed; seems similar to JCommander with fewer dependencies. 9 Logging Sins in your Java Applications details, well, nine possible logging problems. It’s stuff worth thinking about. Five Things You Didn’t Know About… Java Database Connectivity, from IBM developerworks, walks through some things about JDBC that you might not have known. I learned about at least two things that were added since the last time I took a...
Jun 12, 2017 — 1 minute(s) readiciql is a type-safe, model-based wrapper for JDBC… another entry in a fairly large set of libraries designed for that purpose. “Cassandra vs. MongoDB” walks through the two datastores, comparing and contrasting. DZone published “What Archive Format Should You Use, WAR or JAR?“, suggesting that Docker makes .war files more relevant again. Need to extract an HTML page’s main content? Consider Snacktory.
Jun 5, 2017 — 1 minute(s) readToday’s apparently a Microsoft edition of the interesting links! Almost everything relates back to them this time… From wyvern: “The Error Model” is an article discussing… exceptions. Exception handling and the “checked or unchecked” question is (still) controversial in Java; article provides some interesting context on error handling approaches, and explains how error handling evolved in Midori (Microsoft’s experimental research OS). A fundamental decision when choosing to make your API throw a checked...
Nov 18, 2016 — 2 minute(s) readEditor’s note before we get to the links: I’ve been trying to keep the links’ length down to a manageable four or five, so the frequency’s been higher than I might otherwise have desired (roughly every two or three days). I’m going to try a longer list of interesting links, and move the frequency down – we’ll see if that’s useful and palatable. The problem is that ##java (and the...
Feb 1, 2016 — 3 minute(s) read