- Java SE 8 added a new class to handle nullability – Optional – An useful guide to using the new Optional class the way it was meant to when it was introduced into the language. Like everything else, there’s a good way to use it, and then there’s all the other ways.
- Webinar: Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2 – Security for Microservices with Spring and OAuth2 OAuth2 is a lightweight security protocol that is well-suited for use with HTTP, the protocol at the heart of many modern architectures.
- Review: Microsoft Office, Now Free on Mobile, Is Still Out of Sync Online – WSJ – Full-featured Word, Excel and PowerPoint finally on the devices we spend more and more time using—and free? If it was 2011, that would be incredible news.
But at the end of 2014, trying out these new apps on a phone and tablet just underscores how out of sync the king of productivity software has become with the way we use the Internet
- How Google Will Use Firebase to Supercharge Its Cloud Computing #firebase #realtime – With Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all going after this massive market in a big way, cloud services have become something of a commodity. But Firebase gives Google a service that’s unique—at least for the time being. As Leonardo puts it: “There’s nothing e
- Beyond Thread Pools: Java Concurrency is Not as Bad as You Think – Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, Akka, Java 8 streams and Quasar: The classic use cases to the newest concurrency approaches for Java developers
- Introducing Dynomite – Making Non-Distributed Databases, Distributed – The Cloud Database Engineering team at Netflix is always looking for ways to shave off milliseconds from an application’s database response time, while maintaining our goal of local high-availability and multi-datacenter high-availability. With that goal in mind, we created Dynomite.
- Swagger 2.0 – Annotate your REST services code to automate documentation creation – Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment.
- The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate – A Foundation For Building High-Quality WordPress Plugins – A standardized, organized, object-oriented foundation for building WordPress plugins.
- Java 8: A quick overview over the good parts – Writing Java has never been so fun – Writing Java has never been so fun
- GapDebug – Simplify Your Mobile Debugging Experience – GapDebug is a comprehensive mobile debugging tool that bridges the gap left by other debugging options. Operating on both the Windows and Mac platforms, GapDebug allows debugging of hybrid mobile apps, such as PhoneGap and Cordova, on modern iOS and Androi
- AppCode joins Swift club with 3.1 EAP #jetbrains #appcode – This summer, soon after the Apple event, we announced basic editing and highlighting for Swift code. Since then we’ve implemented resolve in Swift code and built a couple of useful features on top of that. So, let’s have a look at what’s already available
- RoboVM beckons Java 8 programmers to iOS – RoboVM lets developers use lambdas and defaults, and it provides full access to the hardware and native iOS APIs
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