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Welcome to the fourth ##java podcast. I’m Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and it’s Monday, 2017 October 16. This podcast covers news and interesting things from the ##java IRC channel; 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 as well...
Oct 16, 2017 — 6 minute(s) readWelcome to the second ##java podcast. We have lots of interesting things to cover, so let’s dive in. Java EE development has moved to the Eclipse Foundation, under the project name “Eclipse Enterprise for Java“, or “EE4J.” Java EE is still the branding for enterprise Java. This move makes Java EE more open; we’ll have to see how well it works under the Eclipse Foundation. We’ll survive either way; it’s a...
Oct 2, 2017 — 5 minute(s) readI recently had a task where I needed to inform a docker image of the host OS’ IP address. (The docker image needed to make an HTTP call to the host machine, for testing purposes.) However, it’s not trivial to find code to actually get a host machine’s IP address. Here’s some code in Kotlin (and in Java) to accomplish the task; I can’t say it’s perfect (and won’t...
Jun 12, 2017 — 2 minute(s) readExcellent advice for developers who design APIs, no matter who is consuming those APIs: “Building for Builders: Stripe’s 8 Tips for Designing APIs and Supporting Developers“ Artificial intelligence is everywhere these days. Here’s “Every single Machine Learning course on the internet, ranked by your reviews“ A cool discrete mathematics library, written in Kotlin: KotlinDiscreteMathToolkit. From DZone: Understanding When to Use RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka. Short form: RabbitMQ is for lazy developers; AMQP message...
May 8, 2017 — 2 minute(s) read