One of my goals to 2020 is to suggest every Thursday, a list of articles that we can read over the weekend. Our community produces a lot of content, and sometimes it's hard to select what to consume. I hope this list can help us on our learning journey. Today's suggestions are: Learn to Kata … Continue reading Weekend Reading List – 1st ed
Tag: java
Records – JEP 359
It's frequently that when writing our code, we end up writing "data" classes(POJO). Classes with several properties, getters and setters, equals, hash code, toString and nothing else. Of course, all the code can be generated by the IDE and more recently Lombok but they are still required and are one of the reasons for Java be … Continue reading Records – JEP 359
Interview with a Java Champion – Edson Yanaga
Hello, Java community. I'm starting a new blog series named Interview with a Java Developer. In the first episode, I had the honor to talk to Edson Yanaga (@yanaga). He's the Director of Developer Experience at RedHat, Java Champion, Microsoft MVP among others. Check the video below where we talk about technology, career and of course Quarkus. Hope you … Continue reading Interview with a Java Champion – Edson Yanaga
Helpful NullPointerExceptions
JDK 14 will have a new feature, JEP 358 - Helpful NullPointerExceptions. This feature aims to bring a better understanding to the developer about the cause of a Null Pointer Exception. Let's take a look at the code below: String name = student.getName(); The JVM would produce a message like: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException … Continue reading Helpful NullPointerExceptions
Java 13 – Text Blocks
Java 13 adds a preview feature that supports JEP 355 - Text Blocks (previously JEP 326 - Raw String Literals). The goal is simple: make it easier to write String that span over several lines. This is especially useful when we are representing a SQL statement or a JSON. Today, if we want to write a SQL … Continue reading Java 13 – Text Blocks
Amazing members of Java community to follow on Twitter
That's a small list of members of the community that I follow. All of them contributed to my growth and are a great source of knowledge (articles, tutorials, books and talks). They are very approachable and also have in common the passion for technology, the community and OSS. Chandra Guntur (@CGuntur)Donald Raab (@TheDonRaab)Mark Heckler(@mkheck)Nikhil Nanivadekar … Continue reading Amazing members of Java community to follow on Twitter
The journey starts here
My name is Rodrigo Graciano. I'm a Brazilian, living in the US since 2011. I've been working as a software developer since 2003, and with Java since 2006. Currently, I work as a software engineer in a major bank in NYC, I'm one of the leaders of NYJavaSIG and also an author to baeldung.com. This … Continue reading The journey starts here
