#maven

Interesting Links – 2017/May/1

Crafting perfect Java Docker build flow, which addresses the “bare minimum you need to build, test and run my Java application in Docker container.” Also relevant: manorrock/maven, a docker container that delivers a specific version of Maven / OpenJDK for Continuous Integration purposes. From DZone: Using Java 8? Please Avoid Functional Vomit “The Complete Beginners’ Guide to Artificial Intelligence” is a very high-level view of AI. It won’t teach you much about AI...

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Interesting Links – 2017/Apr/26

Yes, it’s been a while, I’ve been busy and I’m the only curator of this content: Courtesy of The Introduction of Java Memory Leaks, Javosize, the “free next generation java profiler” — and a commercial product, Plumbr (with a free trial available.) On Optional.isEmpty()… – a fascinating email from Dalibor Topic. Great and funny reading. Courtesy of selckin, Stephen Colebourne has a series on the Java Platform Module System. More on Java 9...

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Interesting Links, 2017-Feb-23

Maven Polyglot: replacing pom.xml with Clojure, Scala, or Groovy Script shows how you can, well, replace the XML configuration for a Maven project with a configuration in another language. This also provides some imperative-ish features to Maven projects, plus no XML except for a short description of the scripting language. How does a relational database work provides a (very) high level description of how a relational database does its work – and if you...

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Interesting Links – 3 Oct 2016

User MarkyC showed Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers, in response to a query about what data types were useful for storing phone numbers. Channel consensus was to do what was necessary, but usually: String. From Reddit, OpenJDK6 End of Life details how the open source OpenJDK6 is reaching its end of life, years after the official Java 6 and Java 7 have reached theirs. This was surprising; I didn’t realise OpenJDK6 was still...

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What you want to have to develop Java

Recently a user asked what they would need to know to develop a “small web application” using Java, including a database. This is not a good question, really, but IRC user surial gave a lot of relevant information that’s worth preserving and adding to. This is not what surial said – if you’re interested in the actual content, see the channel logs – but this is a paraphrase that attempts to build on surial’s...

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