Month: April 2016

Welcome to another issue of TWID. This time it is a bit more relaxed but still an interesting one.

The JVM World

• Voxxed has an interesting blog post introducing Speedment with Java 8. Speedment is toolkit to convert large relational databases into in memory objects.

• Sooner or later, every software engineer will stumble upon JSON. Some love it others don’t. If you hate it, you should give a try to Hjson, the Human JSON.

Scalability

• How to scale to 11+ million users on Amazon’s AWS, a beginner’s guide.

Show Cases

• Turn any website into an API with WrapAPI.

• Harshil Lodhi got bored and hacked his local ISP.

• Software engineering depicted by artists through history.

 

Time to say goodbye. Enjoy your week!

This week we have a rather short list, nevertheless still quite interesting.

• We should always aim to be as efficient as possible. Efficient JAX-RS: Conditional GETs & PUTs discusses how to leverage the JAX-RS API in order to be performant and scalable.

• Do you know Vert.x? It’s a very nice and intuitive toolkit to build reactive applications on the JVM. Check out what happens when Weld meets Vert.x.

• Java 8 was released two years ago and in 2016 Java 8 is picking up some steam, you can check this and more at Plumbr – Java version and vendor data analysed: 2016.

• Working solo or remote? Check out Kite, your virtual pair programming partner. Still missing some big IDEs names but the plugins are open source, feel free to improve or add your own plugin.

• Technology Radar by ThoughtWorks is always a great source for the next trendy technologies and tools. Mike Mason talks about the Macro Trends in the Technology Industry, with interesting topics ranging from team work to productivity.

• Writing email templates? Need inspiration? Check out Good Email Copy and get a peak where the email trend and design is heading to.

And last, but not least, check out this book parody by Practical Developer.

Time to say goodbye and see you next week.

Welcome to This Week in Dev #4. From now on TWID will be published at the beginning of the week.

Let’s begin with Docker.

• Have you ever wondered how can you monitor your Docker instances? Arun Gupta has an interesting blog post on how to monitor your docker instances.

Time to jump on the JVM world.

• Java EE applications are not as heavyweight as you may expect and Sebastian Daschner explains why.

• We all have to find bugs. That’s how life is for a software developer. Voxxed has a nice article on how to efficiently troubleshoot Jave EE applications.

• Performance is always a key feature in your apps and plenty of times caching comes hand to hand with performance. Heroku has some tips on how to implement HTTP caching in Java with JAX-RS.

• Quinten De Swaef has been posting about microservices with Spring Boot and the Netflix stack. Part 1 – Spring Boot & Eureka, Part 2 – Spring Boot & Hystrix and Part 3 – Spring Boot & Feign.

Meanwhile, on Android.

• Looking to customise your status bar? There’s a library customise the status bar style.

• Bored of Java 7? Wait for Android N, it will support Java 8. At least some of it features. Is it a replacement for retrolambda?

Time to wrap up…

• Have you ever wondered what every browser knows about you?

• Extreme data compression, the Youtube channel for the Google Developers team explains how you can achieve extreme data compression.

And that’s it. See you next week.

 

 

Today we have a rather long “This Week in Dev”.

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Baeldung.com explains the best ways to deal with bidirectional relationships with Jackson.

Are you new to Java 8 Completable Future or Async programming? You definitely have to watch this talk by José Paumard at Devoxx Belgium, Asynchronous Programming in Java 8: How to Use CompletableFuture.

Why you should be careful when working with phone numbers, Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers.

We all know how big is the Chinese market but did you know that it is so big that it has its own UI mobile trends?

For the StackOverflow fans out there that can’t make their job without it, did you know you now have a StackOverflow Autocomplete?

Filip Hracek shows why the famous “Hello World” is a fallacy.

Doing tech talks or presenting code to an audience? Check spectacle code slide and rock on those presentations.

Goroutines shows how you can handle 10 million concurrent connections using Go.

We all want to write good code, that is our ultimate goal. Christian Mackeprang has some tips on how to reduce the cognitive load of your code.

Planning on stepping on distributed systems? Wait no more, this introduction to distributed systems should warm you up.

Fan of graphs? Elastic has added Graph to data visualisation plug-in Kibana, Voxxed has short and concise article about it.

This should never happen, a funny and curious thread on Hackernews.

Bored? Fan of GTA San Adreas? Check this funny San Andreas Streaming Deer Cam streaming.

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And that’s it for this week. Time to say goodbye and see you next week.