Every journey has a beginning. This one has code and diagrams. Finding Eclipse Collections at Maven Central The Eclipse Collections project has been hosted at the Eclipse Foundation for over seven years. …

Customize and extend your IDE for an Integrated Developer Experience. Your productivity is worth investing in If you are developing software in a programming language like Java, C++, C#, Python, Go, Ruby, Kotlin, Groovy, Swift, or JavaScript you are probably leveraging a powerful and productive Integrated Development Environment (IDE). I have been using IntelliJ IDEA for…

More than just transparency, open source provides reflection. Transparency and Reflection Transparency is a benefit that is often touted about open source software. You can see the code and know exactly what it does and doesn’t do. From a consumer perspective, there are no surprises. You can read the code and like it…

Java developer blogging with coffee. Coffee makes me Blog Welcome to my blog! I write mostly about Java but occasionally write about other topics I find interesting or relevant at some point in time. I drink three cups of coffee a day. I try not to drink any coffee after 4pm. I mostly drink…

An experiment in stream of consciousness writing. I rode my bike today I followed the road from my house to the park, and meandered down the path that I ride several times a week. Every ride is the same, in that it is always slightly different. Today I just rode, and didn’t stop to take…

A game to help visualize effects of brace placement style in Java The Objective is to be Objective Several years ago, I came up with a creative approach to help establish and agree upon coding style with a new team I was working on. We were in the beginning stages of coding on a new project…

Celebrating 7 years at the Eclipse Foundation and 11 years as OSS TL;DR Eclipse Collections continues to evolve and grow. This blog contains links and images that show the growth in usage and interest in Eclipse Collections over the years. I’ve included GitHub graphs of the top 10 Eclipse Collections contributors…

I had no plans to learn JavaFX this year, and then it just kinda happened. JavaFX makes me feel young again I’ve been developing software for a long time. 40 years feels like a long time to me anyway. Software development has gotten increasingly and incredibly complex over the years. So much so that I find…

Learn how to use Jackson with Eclipse Collections and Java Date/Time Upgrading my JavaFX ToDoList application In the third iteration of my TodoListApplication, I added a ToDoCategory enum with an emoji String, and used it to populate a JavaFX ComboBox. Experimenting with Java enums, emojis, and ComboBox in JavaFX Learn how to use enums and emojis with a JavaFX ComboBox.donraab.medium.com At the end of the third blog in this series, I said I would explain…