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JavaChannel’s Interesting Links podcast, episode 14

Welcome to the fourteenth ##java podcast. Your hosts, as usual, are Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and Andrew Lombardi from Mystic Coders (kinabalu on the channel), and it’s Wednesday, February 7, 2018. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the show notes at the channel’s website, at javachannel.org; you can find all of...

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JavaChannel’s Interesting Links podcast, episode 12

Welcome to the twelfth ##java podcast. Your hosts are Joseph Ottinger, dreamreal on the IRC channel, and Andrew Lombardi (kinabalu on IRC) from Mystic Coders. It’s Tuesday, January 23, 2018. As always, this podcast is basically interesting content pulled from various sources, and funneled through the ##java IRC channel on freenode. You can find the show notes at the channel’s website, at javachannel.org; you can find all of the podcasts using the...

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Interesting Links – 14-Feb-2017

From DZone: Distributed Systems Done Right: Embracing the Actor Model is a reference to a webinar (ugh, “webinar”) from Lightbend on, well, the Actor Model, a way of representing distributed services. Powerful model, even if you don’t use Actors as described. TwelveMonkeys is a set of additional plug-ins and extensions for Java’s ImageIO. It includes BMP, TIFF, JPEG, PNM, and a few others. From user u1dzer0: Awesome Asciidoctor: Include Partial Parts from...

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Interesting Links, 31 Oct 2016 (and 25 Dec 1038)

kumuluzEE is “A lightweight framework for developing microservices using standard Java EE technologies and migrating existing Java EE applications to microservices.” It’s not immediately clear from the web page what makes it ideal for migrating to microservices, but there it is. “Don’t Even use COUNT(*) For Primary Key Existence Checks” has some valuable performance advice, and considers multiple DB implementations while offering it. Now for some Scala stuff: “Quo Vadis, Scala?” has some...

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Tags on javachannel.org

Articles on javachannel.org are going to start using Odersky’s “Scala Levels” as tags for new content (with old content being rated as they get maintained over time, possibly). The levels are in two groups: A1, A2, A3, and L1, L2, and L3. The “A” stands for “application;” the “L” stands for “library.” Put simply, the features that tend to be found in applications and libraries are different; an application can prefer concrete types...

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