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Closing the Visual Gap Between the Official Lottie Webplayer and Lottie4J

Author: Frank Delporte Original post on Foojay: Read More A Lottie library is only as good as its output looks. If an animation renders differently in Lottie4J than it does in the official web player, that’s a bug, even when no exception is thrown and the code looks correct. Within the fxfileviewer, there is an app to visually compare the …

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A Week of Housekeeping: What Changed on Foojay.io

Author: Dominika Tasarz Original post on Foojay: Read More Running a community website is a bit like maintaining a codebase: the content that matters most is never completely done. And if you don’t schedule regular housekeeping, things can get outdated… Last week, we did some cleanup, restructuring, and updating. Here’s an overview of what changed. Navigation Reorganised The top menu …

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Demystifying Exposed: The Intelligent SQL Library for Kotlin

Author: Mahendra Rao B Original post on Foojay: Read More Introduction For quite some time, I have been a huge fan of and fascinated by JetBrains products, tools, and libraries because of their masterful craftsmanship in product creation and their pristine focus on building high-quality developer tools. Even more excitingly, JetBrains Java Annotated Monthly newsletters have featured most of the …

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Funding Open Source Without The Bait And Switch: Analytics, Native Maps, TV And More

Author: Shai Almog Original post on Foojay: Read More Years ago I wrote a piece called Open Source Bait and Switch. The short version: a project is released as open source while it has no business model, a community forms around it, and then the bill comes due. The project either rots into abandonware because nobody can afford to maintain …

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This Dependency Update Looked Exactly Like an Account Takeover

Author: Muhammad Usman Original post on Foojay: Read More I pointed a scanner I have been building at an old Spring project, and it flagged javax.activation. The bump was 1.1-rev-1 to 1.1.1. Prior releases carried a GPG signature. This one did not. If you have read the post-mortems of real supply-chain attacks, that pattern should make you sit up. A …

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BoxLang 1.14.0 : Navigate Anything: JSONPath Comes to BoxLang’s DataNavigator

Author: Cristobal Escobar Original post on Foojay: Read More Every application eventually has to deal with deeply nested data. JSON API responses with payloads six levels deep. Configuration files where the key you need is buried inside an array of objects, one of which has a null for the field you thought was required. Module metadata structures that nobody wrote …

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Building AI Systems with MongoDB: Implementing the Planning Pattern

Author: Otavio Santana Original post on Foojay: Read More Artificial Intelligence has swiftly evolved from a niche research topic to a technology that impacts nearly every aspect of the software industry. Developers now use AI to generate code, review pull requests, create documentation, and accelerate workflows through methods like vibe coding and specification-driven development. While these applications position AI as …

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Java Magazine is now also available digitally on Devmio.nl

The Java Magazine, which every NLJUG member receives four times a year in print, is now also available digitally through the new Devmio.nl  learning and development platform. Every NLJUG member receives a personal login that provides access to the platform. In addition to all digital editions of Java Magazine, members gain access to an extensive library of high-quality content for …

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Using the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT with Pi4J Drivers

Author: Igor De Souza Original post on Foojay: Read More One of the biggest advantages of the Pi4J Drivers project is the ability to interact with complex hardware through simple and intuitive Java APIs. A great example of this is the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT, one of the most popular Raspberry Pi add-on boards and the hardware platform used in …

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Devmio.nl our Learning and Knowledge platform free for all our NLJUG Members

Three weeks ago, as part of your NLJUG membership, you received access to Devmio.nl, our new learning and knowledge platform for Java professionals and software developers. Following the launch, we received several questions regarding the invitation email, the purpose of the platform, and the opportunities it offers. Therefore, we would like to provide a brief update. At NLJUG, we are …

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