enthusiasts united
The XVIIth podcast is live! … one wonders why the Roman Empire didn’t last much longer, doesn’t one. One also wonders how long one can refer to oneself in the whatever-person this is. (It’s… second-person? No, folks, it’s “third person.” English grammer fumbling and lesson over.) In this podcast, we chase a few things: the discussion topic centers back around on Python vs. Java, and why one might encounter one...
Aug 29, 2018 — 3 minute(s) readWhen (integration) testing scrapers you need to strike a balance between “get as much input data as possible to cover parsing edge-cases” and “don’t DoS the backend, please”. Caching can help with that, and gives you a nice performance boost during testing on top. The OkHttp http client library contains a cache built-in but by default it follows HTTP server caching headers. It also allows you to set a particular request to...
Feb 9, 2018 — 1 minute(s) readWelcome to the thirteenth ##java podcast. It’s Tuesday, January 30, 2018. Your hosts are Joseph Ottinger (dreamreal on IRC) and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on IRC) from Mystic Coders. We have a guest this podcast: Cedric Beust, who’s always been very active in the Java ecosystem, being a factor in Android and author of TestNG as well as JCommander and other tools – and it’s fair to say that if you’ve used modern...
Jan 30, 2018 — 5 minute(s) readWelcome to the ninth ##java podcast. If we were using octal, we’d be on the eleventh podcast by now. It’s hosted by Joseph Ottinger (dreamreal) and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on irc) from Mystic Coders and, as a guest, Tracy Snell (waz) on the IRC channel, and it’s Friday, 2017 December 29. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode...
Dec 29, 2017 — 7 minute(s) readWelcome to the seventh ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 November 6. Today feels slightly less anonymous than yesterday. This week we have a co-host, Andrew Lombardi – kinabalu on ##java – and we also offer our humblest apologies to Ms. Debbie Gibson. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel on Freenode; if you see something interesting that’s related to...
Nov 6, 2017 — 8 minute(s) read