It’s been about a decade since I last worked in Java and much has changed. I thought I’d brush up by re-reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch which has since received a new edition. It was once my guiding star for Java. However, after an additional decad... (more…)

When people talk about their experience with Scala, they often say that it is possible to use Scala as a better Java. And indeed, many companies, especially the ones that adopted Scala around 2008-2009, didn't want to give up the familiar tooling and simp... (more…)

A Java Virtual Machine and Bytecode-to-IL Converter for .NET - ikvmnet/ikvm... (more…)

Feature-complete implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm - GitHub - MicroRaft/MicroRaft: Feature-complete implementation of the Raft consensus algorithm... (more…)

Want to use Java for scripting? Meet - j'bang! A new tool in the wild that makes it easy to use your java code as a script. I have used a custom bash script for writing a cloudflare DDNS update. In this post, we will explore if we can use a java class to ... (more…)