A high level of availability of IT services is crucial to prevent disruptions of service that can lead to financial losses, business opportunity losses, data loss, and reputational damage. A business’s downtime cost can vary depending on its size, nature and the length of the downtime. Studies by Network Computing, the Meta Group, and Contingency Planning Research have identified financial …

De nieuwste upgrade van Java, is inmiddels 2 weken beschikbaar in een production release, geeft een voorproefje van een aantal nieuwe mogelijkheden, waaronder virtual threads en structured concurrency. Java Development Kit (JDK) 20 is now available as a production release from Oracle. The latest upgrade of standard Java, JDK 20 features incubation or preview versions of seven new capabilities including …

Golo is a simple dynamic programming language for the Java Virtual Machine that has been designed since the beginning (Java 7) to leverage the capabilities of the Java invokedynamic instruction and API (JSR 292). Author: Philippe Charrière Golo has its language constructs designed with invokedynamic in mind. Golo is an exciting language for rapid prototyping, polyglot application embedding, research (e.g. …

There are several reasons why you might want to move a commit to a different branch. Let’s take a look at some of them. Committed to the wrong branch You’re working on a new feature, but an urgent bug came in. You fixed the bug and committed the fix, but oops… you forgot to create a new branch for the …

toggle /ˈtɒɡ(ə)l/ Noun – COMPUTING a key or command that is operated the same way but with opposite effect on successive occasions. Verb – COMPUTING switch from one effect, feature, or state to another by using a toggle. “the play/pause button toggles between those functions” In het werk van een developer wordt vaak gesproken over feature toggles (of flags): een …

TEQnation 2023 is coming soon! We proudly announce our top level speakers, check them out on our speaker page. With a line-up consisting of national & international IT guru’s such as Mete Atamel, Michael Coté and Claire Thornewill, TEQnation 2023 promises to be a banger of a conference! Join us on May 17th at DeFabrique in Utrecht and get your tickets …

I first ran into the concept of Continuous Integration (CI) when the Mozilla project launched. It included a rudimentary build server as part of the process and this was revolutionary at the time. I was maintaining a C++ project that took 2 hours to build and link. We rarely went through a clean build which created compounding problems as bad …

In this exclusive interview, we had the pleasure of speaking with Otavio Santana, a Java Champion and passionate software engineer and architect dedicated to empowering fellow engineers to deliver efficient, scalable software on the cloud. Otavio shares valuable insights from his journey in the open-source world, highlighting the importance of mentorship and open-source contributions for career growth. With numerous awards …

The Foojay Podcast Java User Group World Tour has already brought us to the UK, US, Dubai, and Japan. Today we travel back to the US to learn more about the Atlanta JUG, mainly because this week, they are organizing the DevNexus conference! Let’s learn about the challenges of organizing both a Java User Group and an entire conference… Guests …

Already the end of March, so time to look back at the JavaFX Links Of The Week that were published on https://www.jfx-central.com/. JavaFX Core Johan Vos is working on backports for JavaFX 17.0.7 to guarantee quality and long-term support. And he announced JavaFX 20 could be released in the week of March 20th. As planned. Together with the release of …