Java Pub House
This podcast talks about how to program in Java; not your tipical system.out.println(“Hello world”), but more like real issues, such as O/R setups, threading, getting certain components on the screen or troubleshooting tips and tricks in general. The format is as a podcast so that you can subscribe to it, and then take it with you and listen to it on your way to work (or on your way home), and learn a little bit more (or reinforce what you knew) from it.
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Episode 56. Let’s have a frank talk about Unsafe! and why you shouldn’t (or should) use it
So you heard about sun.misc.unsafe. Even if you are in certain circles you might have heard about that it was (almost) removed from Java 9. And if you were really paying attention you would’ve heard the cries of every major Java Framework to the news….
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Episode 55. Let’s get GIT-it With it!
Source Control, it’s one of those tools that professionally we MUST need to master, and even if you are a hobbyist is a great thing to learn. In today’s episode we cover one of the “hottest” source control system out there (Git). Created by Linus…
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Episode 54. Bug Hunt! (The essential skills of the great Debugger)
As a developer, we probably spend most of our time figuring out what went wrong. Debugging really an art, and we sometimes get intimidated by it. Well, if you ever found a bug that has trying to scare you, never fear! Bob and I walk through how to…
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Episode 53. It’s here, Spring EMMM…VEEEE…SEEE….(MVC!)
You always hear about it, Spring MVC this, Spring MVC that, wondering what really happens under the hood. Well, wonder no more! In this episode we break up and analyze Spring MVC to the core, so that you know exactly what happens! Taking it from the…
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Episode 52. Of JavaEE, Inter-Tubes, and Socket
So let’s try to understand this Java EE World, shall we? Going from the very basic request, we unravel the magic that a Java EE Container creates. When we see the tricks behind the wall, it suddenly looks a lot like SE with some sprinkled web stuff on…
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Episode 51. Spring is in the air! What better than to talk about The Spring Framework and Spring Beans
If you stepped into the Java EE world, you must have run into Spring. There is Spring XD, Spring Batch, Spring everything-under-the-sun. Sometimes we keep using it as a rut, but today we take a look at Spring (and Spring Core) with a new set of eyes…
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Episode 50. How many Classes would a ClassLoader Load if the ClassLoader was Loading the parent Classes?
You worked with them “all the time”, whenever you know it or not! Classloaders are the little workers that make sure all the code is there and ready to be executed. Bob revisits this topics and goes into more detail on how the ClassLoading hierarchy…
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Episode 49. Don’t put Pressure on me! (About Generational Garbage, and Pressures)
We know how important it is to mind your p’s and q’s when it comes to garbage (and garbage collection). We go deep into how Generational Garbage Collectors work including reference types (strong, weak, soft, phantom), also how Garbage Collection…
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Episode 48. Let’s get Groovy with GRADLE in JAVA!
Strike 1, Strike 2, and STRIKE 3! We cover the last of the build tools, GRADLE. It’s hip, it’s cool, it wears a cool leather jacket and rides around on a great motorcycle. The last of the build tools, it has learned from prior mistakes and has…
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Episode 47. Stop. Maven Time!
So moving to a more recent build tool we cover probably one of the more popular one. Maven is now incredibly robust, and helps fixing what is known as Jar Hell. Have you ever used two libraries that depended on different versions of a logging…
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