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3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Replace Your for-loops With Stream.forEach()

Moving to Java 8? Congrats! Here's a guide to replacing everything with functions, removing object orientation, and discarding of design patterns.

December 14, 2015

by Lukas Eder

· 9,985 Views · 14 Likes

Understanding Thread Interruption in Java

How to get a task running on a separate thread to finish early, or make that task responsive to such a finish request.

December 12, 2015

by Praveer Gupta

· 96,784 Views · 12 Likes

Don't Let Your Java Objects Escape

How to use Escape Analysis with your Java projects to create more optimal, useful code.

December 11, 2015

by Per-Åke Minborg

· 15,997 Views · 6 Likes

Static Imports and Mockito With Java 8

How to simplify Mockito usage by removing static imports in Java 8 based projects.

December 11, 2015

by Marcin Zajączkowski

· 21,998 Views · 6 Likes

Practical Tips to Reduce SQL Server Database Table Size

Six ways to reduce the size of Microsoft SQL Server, complete with code snippets.

December 9, 2015

by Jordan Sanders

· 32,609 Views · 3 Likes

High-Concurrency HTTP Clients on the JVM

HTTP is a super popular app protocol with loads of libraries. Here's a look at high-concurrency HTTP clients on Java virtual machines.

December 8, 2015

by Fabio Tudone

· 90,286 Views · 35 Likes

Python: Parsing a JSON HTTP Chunking Stream

How I parse a JSON HTTP chunking stream in Python using meetup.com's API to filter RSVPs for events I'm interested in.

December 4, 2015

by Mark Needham

· 25,885 Views · 4 Likes

Deploying NGINX and NGINX Plus with Docker

Docker is an open platform for orchestrating distributed applications.; open source NGINX (and the enhanced and commercially supported version, NGINX Plus) are great use cases for Docker, and this article describes how you can deploy the open source product.

December 4, 2015

by Patrick Nommensen

· 9,431 Views · 4 Likes

Convert TIFF Images to PDF/JPEG in Java

This code snippet that uses the iText library can convert TIFF files into PDF or JPEG using Java.

December 3, 2015

by Shrisowdhaman Selvaraj

· 35,878 Views · 3 Likes

Run NGINX and NGINX Plus in Containers on Photon OS

Photon OS is a new lightweight Linux distribution from VMware, designed specifically to run containers.

November 30, 2015

by Patrick Nommensen

· 6,350 Views · 1 Like

Presentations with Remark and Mermaid

Browser-based presentations are portable, easy to edit, and they convert easily to PDF. Plus embedded code snippets are a lot easier.

November 28, 2015

by Alan Hohn

· 9,050 Views · 4 Likes

Attach a Shell to Docker Container [quick tip]

Often there is a need to attach a shell to an already running Docker container. This is very useful, especially for debugging. This blog will explain how to attach a shell to an already running Docker container.

November 28, 2015

by Arun Gupta

· 9,132 Views · 2 Likes

The One and Only Reason to Customize IntelliJ IDEA Memory Settings

Think you shouldn't customize IntelliJ IDEA memory settings? You're wrong. Here's why you should?

November 26, 2015

by Tomasz Dziurko

· 72,226 Views · 27 Likes

An Introduction to TDD With Java

Learn the basics of Test-Driven-Development (TDD) with Java and JUnit, but the concepts are applicable to any language.

November 23, 2015

by Alexey Zvolinskiy

· 57,086 Views · 30 Likes

Java EE 8 MVC + Leaflet Map Demo

Replace static maps with Java EE 8's new MVC features and Leaflet, an open source JavaScript library for interactive maps.

November 23, 2015

by Lumir Vanek

· 22,756 Views · 4 Likes

Does PostgreSQL Have an ORA-01795-like Limit?

Comparing the limitations of Oracle to PostgreSQL using a simple test application.

November 23, 2015

by Dustin Marx

· 5,915 Views · 4 Likes

A Day is Not 60*60*24 Seconds Long

A review of how to express dates in JavaScript, using a junior programmer's code as an example.

November 20, 2015

by Swizec Teller

· 80,800 Views · 10 Likes

Configuring Tomcat 7 Single Sign-on with SPNEGO (Kerberos & LDAP)

Trying to set up a Single Sign-on Tomcat 7 server? Here's how to do so, complete with a look at what SPNEGO is, authentication vs. authorization, and Single Sign-on basics.

November 20, 2015

by Brett Crawley

· 76,146 Views · 8 Likes