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Foojay Podcast #36: J-Fall Report, Part 3

In Episodes 33 and 34 of the Foojay Podcast, you got the first two parts of our J-Fall Report. But on that single-day conference, we had many more interesting interviews. This is part 3 in which my guests talk about Maven, contributing to Open Source projects, JOOQ, Desktop Applications, Thymeleaf, htmx, and Security. Video report Podcast (audio only) Content 00:00 …

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Creating Executables For JavaFX Applications

Here on Foojay, you can already find some great articles on how to create native executables from your JavaFX code: Native Applications for Multiple Devices from a Single JavaFX Project with Gluon Mobile and GitHub Actions JavaFX Templates for Desktop Applications Let’s take a look in this article at the current state of what can be done with jpackage and …

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Chopping the monolith in a smarter way

In my previous post Chopping the Monolith, I explained that some parts of a monolith are pretty stable and only the fast-changing parts are worth being “chopped.” I turned the post into a talk and presented it at several conferences. I think it’s pretty well received; I believe it’s because most developers understand, or have direct experience, that microservices are …

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