Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.When I made the switch from .NET to Java, I naturally had to switch IDEs. With moving to Java, I chose Eclipse. I was …
Netty: A Different Kind of Web(Socket) Server
Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Netty is used today in all kinds of applications, all over the Internet, to handle thousands (if not millions) of chat conversations, multiplayer games including …
Do Primitives Need To Go?
Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I am currently working on an enterprise application using JSF as the view technology and JPA for the persistence layer. It may have been …
Caching Strategy Reminder for Maven-Based Docker Builds
Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.My local development feedback loop between code change and runnable container was annoyingly long on a Maven-based project I was recently working on. I …
Java And The Sweet Science
Attention: This article was published over 11 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.When you have been developing in Java for 15 years and a co-worker asks you to help them debug a null pointer exception, you …










