Despite it assosiation with large, bureacratic, and slow enterprise shops, and big, unwieldy frameworks, recent additions to the Java language, tooling, and libraries, combined with more lean programming styles, have turned programming Java into a rather ... (more…)

This document explores a possible direction for supporting pattern matching in the Java Language. This is an exploratory document only and does not constitute a plan for any specific feature in any specific version of the Java Language. This document also... (more…)

Pi4J, the Java library to control the GPIOs of the Raspberry Pi - Pi4J/pi4j... (more…)

Good application developers use existing libraries rather than reinventing every wheel. This is particularly true on the JVM, where there are a huge number of wheels to choose from. So in addition to writing good code, developers need be able to ass... (more…)

This is basically how MongoDB ensures uniqueness of entity ids across multiple machines and also within local machine processes. Here is a very nice explanation if you’re interested: http:… (more…)