Want to install GraalVM on OSX? It's easy. First, get SDKMan. Trust me. You want it. Almost as much as brew, if you're doing anything with the JVM. You'll want to install bash - via brew - because SDKMan uses…
Category: java
Things I'm learning about, on this day of verbs: "What metrics matter: A guide for open source projects" has a lot of good information. It's interesting.I get to buy a new Macbook charger today; my "old" one is giving out,…
Things I may have learned recently-ish: Painting pottery is fun. I'm not very good at it. I apparently also have a thing for beer steins... out of which I drink coffee, because beer isn't very good in my opinion. But…
Things I have learned recently: People still don't really get JNDI, and the Java frameworks around today make it easy to ignore, even though it's still a core technology. It's not difficult to see how it can be confusing: context…
Things I think I've learned today: Blogs are so yesterday, man. It's probably the medium and platform I've chosen - I don't use Medium, for example, although I have an account there - and I don't publish often enough, or…
I've recently put together a new Maven archetype, based on something I saw in Freenode's ##java channel a few weeks ago. Basically, someone had built their own archetype for "standard projects," with a few sensible dependencies and defaults, and while…
Grappa is a parser library for Java. It's a fork of Parboiled, which focuses more on Scala as a development environment; Grappa tries to feel more Java-like than Parboiled does. Grappa's similar in focus to other libraries like ANTLR and…
I still prefer Java over other languages. The Background: Javabot I'm a fairly regular contributor to javabot, an IRC bot written for the Freenode ##java channel. I don't know that I'd be considered a major contributor (I'm not listed in…
"Test-driven development" is one of those things that causes hives among some programmers, who immediately stand up and plant the claim that it's worthless, peurile, deceptive, and generates awful code... never mind that others manage to use it effectively. I…
OWL is a language used to describe ontologies - systems of knowledge. It's found primarily in the Semantic Web, which mostly means "hardly anywhere," and part of the problem is that using OWL is really pretty difficult. You can find…