Modern application development is unrecognizable without Java. For almost 30 years, Java has empowered developers to create the next generation of rich, scal... (more…)

Have you ever wanted to know how text editors work? How shell scripts change terminal text colors, update lines without scrolling, or move the cursor around?... (more…)

Java 9 introduces unified logging, a central mechanism configurable with -Xlog to observe class loading, threading, garbage collector, module system, etc. (more…)

It’s been about a decade since I last worked in Java and much has changed. I thought I’d brush up by re-reading Effective Java by Joshua Bloch which has since received a new edition. It was once my guiding star for Java. However, after an additional decad... (more…)

We had an opportunity to talk with James Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the father of the Java programming language, and get his insight into the languages, features, and solutions that we use every day. (more…)