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A look in the rearview mirror, from JDK 1.3 to JDK 22

• Ludovic Tant
• 34 Min To Read
• 02 Jul, 2024
• • Development and programming

For reasons that I will have to detail in a future post, I am diving back partly into the code, and into Java. The last time I coded “for real”, it was to make Java applications on feature phones (the stuff between Nokia 3210 and smartphones), in J2ME , and Windows Mobile applications on Windows Phone. Before the era of smartphones therefore. Before that, I had developed mainly in Java for web services, via servlets, an in-house templating engine, then via Java Server Pages .

Elevating Young Developers: Best practices and feedback for seasoned developers in onboarding and skill development

• Alexandre Touret Philippe Vincent
• 8 Min To Read
• 04 Jun, 2024
• • Development and programming

Introduction

After many years working as a developer, you are now probably fluent in TDD, BDD, design and coding. Your technical watch help you ensure your skills are at the edge. Everything is hunky-dory.

D3 for beginners

• Valery Brasseur
• 10 Min To Read
• 02 Apr, 2024
• • Development and programming

Ever wanted some beautiful graphs on your application ? D3.js is a library for doing just that: rendering beautiful graphs using HTML and SVG.

My feedback after upgrading a Quarkus project from v2 to v3

• Yassine Benabbas
• 6 Min To Read
• 26 Dec, 2023
• • Development and programming

In our team (Worldline TechSquad), we develop and maintain a CRUD REST API for managing our internal events. We use Kotlin and Quarkus as our base language and framework respectively. The project started at the time with Quarkus 1 which was upgraded to Quarkus 2. Since July 2023 Quarkus 3.2 is the current LTS release . Thus, we wanted to update our app as soon as possible to remain on a proper long term support version.

Naming colors: overcoming your 50 shades of gray

• Simon Mercier
• 5 Min To Read
• 31 Oct, 2023
• • Development and programming

Naming colors correctly in my code has always been a headache. I was familiar with two schools of thought:

Quarkus' Fast-JAR packaging

• Jean-Baptiste Roux
• 4 Min To Read
• 05 Sep, 2023
• • Development and programming

In this article we will focus on a specific packaging mode brought by Quarkus: the Fast-JAR. Its main goal is to provide an optimized way of building cloud-ready Java apps.