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I didn't think much about it when Google announced in late 2018 "sunsetting the consumer version of Google+ ." Although I had a Google+ acc... | Continue reading
The press release " Oracle Code One Java Keynote Outlines the Future of Java " describes the Java Keynote at Oracle Code "highlight[ing] fut... | Continue reading
In the post " JVM Language Summit 2018 and Valhalla EA Build 0 ", I mentioned that Project Valhalla's "L-World Value Types" Early-Access Bui... | Continue reading
Although the promising Java value types are not imminent, I still enjoy nosing around occasionally in the OpenJDK valhalla-dev mailing list... | Continue reading
In the blog post " Using Google's Protocol Buffers with Java ," I quoted Josh Bloch's Third Edition of Effective Java , in which he wrote, ... | Continue reading
With all the shiny things ( lambda expressions , streams , Optional , the new Date/Time API , etc.) to distract my attention that came wit... | Continue reading
The question " Why does `array[i++%n] += i+" "` give different results in Java 8 and Java 10? " was posted earlier this week on StackOverflo... | Continue reading