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JavaFX Links of October

When I (re)started the JavaFX Links Of The Week on jfx-central.com in September, I was wondering if there would be enough material to share every week. But that was a stupid mistake as you can see below in the summary of what happened in October… JavaFX 19 and 20 JavaFX 19 just got released a few weeks ago, but Johan …

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Renovate: Dependabot Alternative

I won’t introduce Dependabot. Lots and lots of developers use it daily on GitHub. I do use it as well. However, it suffers from two drawbacks: While it’s perfectly integrated with GitHub, integrations with other platforms are less seamless. It’s limited in the list of ecosystems it supports For example, I generally use Docker Compose files for my demos. When …

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The Problem with Functional Programming

Let me start off with saying that I love functional programming. Although… a better way of saying it would be that I love what functional programming brings me. It reduces complexity, the code is nice and explicit, and it eliminates certain bugs from occurring. But there are a few things that I wanted to discuss regarding functional programming. Object Orientation …

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