Since cloud computing has made big leaps in the past few years by emerging as a conventional business tool, several strategies have consequently surfaced. These myths aren't necessarily as risky as they were initially presented to be, but ...See More they certainly affect our methods of approaching solutions in the cloud computing space.read more

I'm a lonely sensor. I spend all day telling the world how I'm feeling, but none of the other sensors seem to care. I want to be connected. I want to build relationships with other sensors to be more useful for my human. I want my human to ...See More understand that when my friends next door are too hot for a while, I'll soon be flaming. And when all my friends go outside without me, I may be left behind. Don't just log my data; use the relationship graph. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ryan Boyd, Engineer and Head of Developer Relations at Neo4j, will help attendees understand the dependencies and figure out the root cause of the failures.read more

Has there ever been a better time to be in DevOps? TV shows like “Person of Interest” and “Mr. Robot” are getting better at showing what developers actually do, using chunks of working code. Movies like Michael Mann’s ...See More “Blackhat” (2015) won praise from Google’s security team for its DevOps accuracy in a few scenes. Look around and you’ll discover elements of DevOps culture filtering out into wider society, such as people in all walks of life discussing their uptime or fast approaching code lock.read more

Note that this post is not intended to be a status update; it’s just a quick update based on some experimenting that I’ve been doing with the beta code. It’s been a while, but I’m back to experimenting in Java ...See More 9 support in the Eclipse IDE. For testing purposes, I downloaded the most recent Oxygen (4.7) ...

Top-Rated Instructor Rob Percival Will Take You from Coding Novice to Ninja with 31+ Hours of Training Hey fellow geeks, This week, on our JCG Deals store, we have an extreme offer. We are offering the The Complete Android Developer Course ...See More – Build 14 Apps for only $17 instead of the original price of $199, ...

Introduction Elasticsearch (ES) is a search engine based on Lucene. It provides a distributed, multitenant-capable, full-text search engine with an HTTP web interface and ...See More schema-free JSON documents. Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line, and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top ...

In my last blog entry, I used a small piece of code I was working on to demonstrate how pre-JDK 8 code using external iteration could be converted to use streams with a powerful standard collector. I also highlighted the problem that can ...See More arise when exceptions can be thrown from within a Lambda expression used in a stream.Although I described two simple approaches to dealing with exceptions, in this case, I chose in my final code not to use the exception generating methods, as I didn’t need them. It did, however, get me thinking about what the best solution to the problem would be if I did need to use exception generating methods.

For an application developer, the problem of configuring the system for actual operations is usually not regarded as a complicated issue. Sometimes the code needs some settings, which can not, or should not be hard-coded, so some external ...See More source is needed to provide these values. It’s not rocket science.Still, there are some straight-forward, nice-to-have features, which might make this task even easier, not readily found in mainstream configuration libraries.

We all know that inheritance is bad and that composition over inheritance is a good idea, but do we really understand why? In most all articles I've found addressing this subject, authors have said that inheritance may be harmful to your ...See More code, so it's better not to use it. This "better" part is what bothers me; does it mean that sometimes inheritance makes sense? I interviewed David West (the author of Object Thinking, my favorite book about OOP) a few weeks ago, and he said that inheritance should not exist in object-oriented programming at all (full video). Maybe Dr. West is right and we should totally forget extends keyword in Java, for example.I think we should. And I think I know the reason why.

Are you about to embark on your software localization (L10n) voyage? Or perhaps you’re already in the middle of assigning locales and hreflang to your internal pages. Whatever stage you’re at in your project, there will be a few ...See More moments when you feel overwhelmed. That’s because rolling out sophisticated software to multiple languages and regions isn’t easy. In fact, it’s tough. Real tough. Here are at least 12 reasons why software localization (L10n) is so dang hard:1. There’s A Lot Of People In The WorldJust contemplating the global population can lead any Product Manager’s head to spin at the enormity of the task before them. As globalization increases, the number of internet subscribers rises. Currently at over 3 billion — that’s a lot of potential customers.