The 10 Commandments of Programming
Patterns 34:29 As Turing descended from Mount Compute – with the two iPads of the testimony in his hands as he descended the mountain – he did not realize that the skin of his blog shone as a result of...
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For the occasion of today’s date, I’ve just invented a fun game. The Spring API Bingo! How does it work? Let us write the following little piece of code: public class SpringAPIBingo { public static...
View ArticleConference Legal Disclaimers
After deep consideration with our lawyers, we would like to follow suit with Oracle and provide you with the following legal disclaimer about our jOOQ-related conference talks, as presented at the...
View ArticleWhat Big Data Really Is
One for the weekend: Big Data Big Data pic.twitter.com/18VPE9LGDq — Victor Agreda Jr (@superpixels) June 19, 2014 Filed under: fun Tagged: Big Data, Truth
View ArticleTop 10 Very Very VERY Important Topics to Discuss
Some things are just very very very VERY very important. Such as John Cleese. The same is true for Whitespace: Whitespace-Shedding Yes. 1080 Reddit Karma points (so urgently needed!) in only 23 hours....
View ArticleWhy You Should NOT Implement Layered Architectures
Abstraction layers in software are what architecture astronauts tell you to do. Instead, however, half of all applications out there would be so easy, fun, and most importantly: productive to implement...
View ArticleThis Just In!! Updated Silly Keyword Metrics
It’s this time of the year and we’re repeating the silly metrics keyword count across all of jOOQ‘s code base. We have a couple of exciting news! public is still one of the favourite keywords (yeah,...
View ArticleThe dreaded DefaultAbstractHelperImpl
A while ago, we have published this fun game we like to call Spring API Bingo. It is a tribute and flattery to Spring’s immense creativeness when forming meaningful class names like...
View Article10 Things You Didn’t Know About Java
So, you’ve been working with Java since the very beginning? Remember the days when it was called “Oak”, when OO was still a hot topic, when C++ folks thought that Java had no chance, when Applets were...
View ArticlejOOQ 4.0’s New API Will Use Annotations Only for Truly Declarative Java/SQL...
SQL is the only really popular and mature 4GL (Fourth Generation Programming Language). I.e. it is the only popular declarative language. At the same time, SQL has proven that turing completeness is...
View ArticleA Completely Overhauled, Modularised jOOQ 3.11, Ready for Java 11
If you’ve been following the fast paced JDK 9+ projects, you may have noticed an exciting, first big change that has been made possible thanks to Java 9’s Jigsaw feature. In JDK 11, JEP 320 will ship,...
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