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As I work with people to use agile approaches, I see many organizational constraints. I’ve been trying to find a visualization for what I see. I don’t know if I’ve got it yet, but here is my sum-of-the-parts image. The organization’s culture drives decisions (or not!)  about the strategy. Strategy, with any luck, creates clarity about which products when (the ...

To understand what’s wrong with Java desktop apps, let’s take a look at the new features of JavaFX, a leading UI framework for desktop applications. It becomes obvious that it is trending towards the web approaches, borrowing more and more features from the web world. JavaFX supports a subset of CSS features, accompanying it with their own properties. However, this ...

With all the shiny things (lambda expressions, streams, Optional, the new Date/Time API, etc.) to distract my attention that came with JDK 8, I did not pay much attention to the addition of the method Math.toIntExact(). However, this small addition can be pretty useful in its own right. The Javadoc documentation for Math.toIntExact​(long) states, “Returns the value of the long ...

A recent Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) tweet caught my attention because it referenced an interesting StackOverflow discussion on a changed behavior between JDK 8 and JDK 10 and asked “Why?” The issue cited on the StackOverflow thread by SerCe ultimately came down to the implementation being changed between JDK 8 and JDK 10 to correctly implement the Java Language Specification. The ...

In this article we will see a Java10 feature called Local Variable Type Inference proposed as part of JEP 286. From the first version of Java it is strongly typed language where we need to mention each variable data type. We all were feeling Java is verbose language and expecting precise, compact way of writing Java . Java 8 addressed ...

1. Introduction to MySQL replication In a large scale enterprise system, data consistency and backup is of prime importance. It is equally important to distribute the load on the database server using copies of the database. However, maintaining backup or additional instances is a difficult task especially when you try to copy entire database repeatedly. MySQL replication helps us precisely ...

How many lines of code did you write to sort a collection of objects before Java 8 ? How many, you will need with Java 8 ? You can do it with a single line in Java 8. Let’s see the following Employee class. public class Employee { private String name; private Integer age; public Employee(String name, Integer age) { ...

After Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Github, a mass exodus has kind of begun and many small and large projects are moving their code bases to the much hyped Gitlab in a hurry, and these include both open and closed source projects. However, before migrating to Gitlab, they should take a pause and learn something about Gitlab and consider evaluating other ...