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From Cowboy Mode to Careful Stewardship - Inside Java Podcast 41
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It's always a treat to hear @mreinhold.org talk about the stewardship of Java given his 3 decades of experience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny4C...

28.10.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Special Episode 300 - Cracking the Java Coding Interview #javalanguage #javacoding #javatips
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@josepaumard.bsky.social just released the 300th #codingtip on the Java channel, please do yourself a favour and check out this shorts series with your own cup of coffee www.youtube.com/shorts/gGumO...

15.10.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I strongly recommend watching the latest Marco show, which was hosted by @jetbrains.com where he interviews Gavin King, the creator of Hibernate, to gain some insights into its myths and ORMs in general.

02.10.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Online "OOP vs. Data Oriented Programming: Which One to Choose?" by CoffeeJug! β˜•οΈ
YouTube video by CoffeeJug Online "OOP vs. Data Oriented Programming: Which One to Choose?" by CoffeeJug! β˜•οΈ

There are certainly worse things to do after dinner than watch @venkats.bsky.social talk about OOP vs DOP on the CoffeeJUG channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1E8...

25.09.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - SimonVerhoeven/java25-demo Contribute to SimonVerhoeven/java25-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

#Java25 is releasing later today, and once again, we get some new treats. Let's take a look together: github.com/SimonVerhoev... .

16.09.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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13.09.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
European Commission Publishes a Roadmap on Open Source Software The European Commission has recently published a strategic roadmap titled

Just a reminder that free open-source software has value, and is key to a lot of aspects of our daily life: fermigier.com/blog/2025/07...

30.08.2025 05:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How to Upgrade to Java 25 #RoadTo25
YouTube video by Java How to Upgrade to Java 25 #RoadTo25

An interesting and entertaining watch alongside your favourite beverage on a Sunday morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9azN.... #RoadTo25

24.08.2025 09:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Please make sure that you're using a Servlet 6.1-compliant container if you're planning to upgrade to Spring Boot 4 in November. The early bird catches the worm.

23.08.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What's New in IntelliJ IDEA Explore IntelliJ IDEA's latest features and updates to elevate your professional Java and Kotlin development experience.

For those using Spring Boot Modulith and @intellijidea.com please do yourself a favour and update to version 2025.2 as it contains some nice enhancements for us: www.jetbrains.com/idea/whatsne... .

12.08.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Java at 30: A Crash Course in its Evolution
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What do Minecraft, credit cards, and NASA have in common? #Java – and it has just turned 30. To celebrate, we made a short video on how far it’s come and what happens when you run modern code on Java 1.0. Episode 1 is live 🎬 youtu.be/SB8WW-PGClE

26.05.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not that it wasn't important before, but with the rising usage of AI tools, I wonder how many developers are regretting creating semantic debt.
For example, `i` over a meaningful variable name, magic numbers, et cetera.

27.05.2025 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Microservice guru You see systems as stories – split, scalable, and speaking over HTTP. You don’t build apps. You shape universes.

I am Microservice guru. Unleash your inner Duke and win a limited-edition T-shirt! #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA www.jetbrains.com/lp/java-30/m...

23.05.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spring Boot 3.5.0 available now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

Spring Boot 3.5 is now available: spring.io/blog/2025/05... . Congratulations to the whole team.

23.05.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy 30th birthday Java #30YearsOfJava . It has certainly been quite the journey.

23.05.2025 03:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use | The CLion Blog CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

Great news for C/C++ developers: blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/0...

07.05.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition
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Paul Bakker shared a lot of interesting insights at #JavaOne www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpun...

27.04.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Junie, the coding agent by JetBrains Delegate your tasks, focus on the results

@jetbrains.com coding agent Junie has now entered general availability, why not give it a try? www.jetbrains.com/junie/

17.04.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Developer Ecosystem Survey 2025 Take our survey, shape the future, and seize the chance to win a MacBook Pro or other rewards!

It's time to fill in the ninth annual jetbrains survey, please share your insights and experiences with them: surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/developer...

14.04.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout
YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer The Philosophy of Software Design – with John Ousterhout

Please do yourself a favour and watch this talk on the Philosophy of Software Design with John Ousterhout, there are so many useful nuggets in there.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz45...

13.04.2025 17:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Using Spring AI 1.0.0 M7 Released Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

The final #SpringAI release candidate has dropped with some great enhancements such as docker module runner support and MCP 0.9.0 integration.

spring.io/blog/2025/04...

I can't wait for the GA release at Spring I/O in May.

11.04.2025 04:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One more day until @javaland.bsky.social ! I hope everyone has a magnificent time.

31.03.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
GraalVM for JDK 24 Release Stream πŸš€
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Another magnificent @graalvm.org for #JDK24 stream by @alina-yurenko.bsky.social and Fabio Niephaus showing us all the great enhancements at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3a0... . Please do yourself a favour and also check out: medium.com/graalvm/welc...

26.03.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some interesting weekend reading on #eclipsecollections, FOSS, patterns, et cetera thanks to Donald Raab.

22.03.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Some impressive numbers!

19.03.2025 04:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

learn.java was just announced at #javaone, a great place to learn more about the language!

18.03.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - SimonVerhoeven/java24-demo Contribute to SimonVerhoeven/java24-demo development by creating an account on GitHub.

#java24 is releasing tomorrow, so it's the perfect moment to take a look at the new exciting enhancements at github.com/SimonVerhoev...

17.03.2025 04:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

This is pretty nice news! devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

12.03.2025 03:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cruising Along with Java Get up to speed with the changes in the Java language from version 9 to 19 and apply the amazing features in your application to improve its design and quality.

It looks like @venkats.bsky.social just released the final update for Cruising along with Java! So far it's been a magnificent resource, and I can't wait to read the final changes! pragprog.com/titles/vscaj...

12.02.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Developer Productivity with Apache Mavenβ„’: 18 hacks to accelerate your builds and tests
YouTube video by Gradle Developer Productivity with Apache Mavenβ„’: 18 hacks to accelerate your builds and tests

If you use #Maven please do yourself a favour and watch this great video by Gradle with very useful tips and tricks: www.youtube.com/watch?v=280o...

06.02.2025 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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