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Foojay Podcast #34: J-Fall Report, Part 2

On November 9th, we had several interviews with the speakers and guests at the J-Fall conference in the Netherlands. Last week, in episode 33 of the Foojay Podcast, you could hear discussions about the evolution of Java towards the Cloud and sustainability. In this part, we will touch on various topics related to the developers’ lives. Video Report Podcast (audio …

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Custom JFR Events: A Short Introduction

JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is one of the two prominent open-source profilers for the OpenJDK (besides async-profiler). It offers many features (see Profiling Talks) and the ability to observe lots of information by recording over one hundred different events. If you want to know more about the existing events, visit my JFR Event Collection website (related blog post): Besides these …

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Java for desktop applications: Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

As desktop applications have kind of become a niche topic, it’s getting harder to find information about up-to-date best practices for desktop development. Since I have been doing this for many years now, I hope that I can share some of the lessons learned with other fellow desktop developers. Most items that are discussed here are taken straight from XPipe, …

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