April, 2023

• 4 April

  TEQnation 2023, May 17th at DeFabrique in Utrecht

  

  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 …

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• 4 April

  DevOps For Developers: Continuous Integration, GitHub Actions, and Sonar Cloud

  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 …

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• 3 April

  Unlocking the Secrets to a Successful Software Engineering Career: An Interview with Otavio Santana

  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 …

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• 3 April

  Foojay Podcast #18: Atlanta JUG and DevNexus

  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 …

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• 1 April

  JavaFX Links of March 2023

  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 …

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• 1 April

  Coroutines on the RaspberryPi (Pi4J-Kotlin)

  If you didn’t know already, Pi4J has had a Kotlin DSL for quite some time now. And I’m here to announce the latest release v2.4.0 with a sack of additions and to tell you about all the good stuff that’s been added since the first release. 1. Coroutines If the pi4j { … } wasn’t good enough for ya, and …

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March, 2023

• 31 March

  My Evaluation of the Scaleway Cloud Provider

  A couple of years ago, I developed an app that helped me manage my conference submission workflow. Since then, I have been a happy user of the free Heroku plan. Last summer, Heroku’s owner, Salesforce, announced that it would stop the free plan in November 2022. I searched for a new hosting provider and found Scaleway. In this article, I’d …

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• 30 March

  Terugblik op de NLJUG Business en Kennispartner bijeenkomst in het Spoorwegmuseum

  

  Gisteravond vond de NLJUG Business en Kennispartner bijeenkomst plaats in het Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht. Tijdens deze avond konden de partners van de NLJUG kennis met elkaar uitwisselen en netwerken. Het thema van de avond was gericht op ‘young professionals’, oftewel jonge informaticastudenten die zich voorbereiden op hun carrière als Java-developer.   De introductie van het bestuur Het evenement begon met …

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• 30 March

  Writing a Profiler in 240 Lines of Pure Java

  A few months back, I started writing a profiler from scratch, and the code since became the base of my profiler validation tools. The only problem with this project: I wanted to write a proper non-safepoint-biased profiler from scratch. This is a noble effort, but it requires lots C/C++/Unix programming which is finicky, and not everyone can read C/C++ code. …

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• 29 March

  Chronicle Wire: Object Marshalling

  At Chronicle, we know that efficient code doesn’t just run faster; if it’s using less compute-resource, it may also be cheaper to run. In particular, distributed cloud applications can benefit from fast, lightweight serialisation. In this article, we will demonstrate the efficiencies of using Chronicle Wire to encode small Strings into long primitives, with a few step-by-step examples of object …

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