JCG Weekly: Why wait for JDK 10?, Why Programmers Should Never Stop Learning

[MEGA DEAL] The Complete 2018 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle: Lifetime Access (98% off) View this email in your browser Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google Plus Email Your Weekly Java Code Geeks Dose Download Minibooks!   5 Questions You Need to Ask About End-User Monitoring There are many ways for customers to engage with your business today. Whether it's through a website or mobile app, it's become increasingly important for enterprises to raise the bar and provide end users with high-performing and functionally-rich applications. To ensure your brand meets customer expectations, it's important to ensure your applications are performing at their optimal level. This requires monitoring how and where customers are connecting with your business — tracking every tap, swipe, and click. Download this eBook for 5 must-ask questions to ensuring the most effective end-user monitoring.     Ensuring Visibility into Microservices & Containers As more enterprises embrace DevOps practices and move workloads to the cloud, application architects are increasingly looking to design choices that maximize the speed of development and deployment. Two of the fastest growing are containers and microservices. Read this ebook to get an introduction to the benefits and use cases of Microservices, Containers, and APM. Download this ebook to learn: How containers and microservices work The benefits and challenges of using them How a unified view of the enterprise stack and effective application performance monitoring (APM) can help to maximize their benefits   Best of the Week from JCG [Webinar] Quality Gates and Feedback Loops in Continuous Delivery (by Tali Soroker) Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CD) accelerate software development and delivery. Unfortunately, many teams aren't doing enough to mitigate the tradeoffs that come with this new workflow.   [MEGA DEAL] The Complete 2018 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle: Lifetime Access (98% off) (by Michail Kordelakos) Hey fellow geeks, This week, on our JCG Deals store, we have another extreme offer. We are offering a massive 98% off on The Complete 2018 CompTIA Certification Training Bundle: Lifetime Access. Get it now with only $59, instead of the original price of $4,329. JDK 9/10/11: Side Effects from += on Java String (by Dustin Marx) The question "Why does `array[i++%n] += i+" "` give different results in Java 8 and Java 10?" was posted earlier this week on StackOverflow.com. It points to a bug in the Java compiler that is present in JDK9 and later, but is not present in JDK8.   Zuul 2 – Sample filter (by Biju Kunjummen) Zuul 2 has finally been open sourced. I first heard of Zuul 2 during Spring One 2016 talk by Mikey Cohen is available here, it is good to finally be able to play with it.   Why Programmers Should Never Stop Learning (by Larry Reed) One of the reasons why IT is still one of the most profitable industries in the world is that it's constantly changing and evolving. New trends appear every day, along with new technologies and marketing strategies. Anyone who wants to be in this business needs to constantly keep track of everything and be ready to learn on the fly. Mega-Deal: Programming Courses from Only $10.99! We have arranged a mega-deal with Udemy for your eyes only! You can purchase each course from just $10.99. The deal will be available for LIMITED TIME ONLY, so make sure to grab them now!   Latest JCG Examples Java Servlet Set/Get Example One of the main challenges for every beginner in the development world is to understand and assimilate how things works internally in a technology in order to create their own code.   Git Remote Branch Example  Git is an open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed and efficiency. Three-tree architecture is the key concept. Here are the three trees... Java MongoDB Iterating through a Collection Hello readers, in this tutorial, we will show how to iterate the documents of a Mongo collection using the Java driver. Apache ActiveMQ SSL Example Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security protocol for establishing encrypted links between web servers and browsers in online communication   Spring Security OAuth2 Example Spring Security is a powerful and highly customisable authentication and access-control framework. It is the De-facto standard for securing Spring-based applications. Best Web Code Geeks Articles AngularJS ng-disabled Directive Example (by Yatin Batra) Hello readers, in this tutorial, developers will learn what AngularJS is and how to use the AngularJS ng-disabled Directive in the angular applications. From Zero to App: The Cross-Platform Development Approach Simplified: Part Two (by Matt Netkow) There's a lot of demand for mobile application developers these days, but learning all the available platforms and toolsets can be a challenge. https://www.webcodegeeks.com/javascript/mathematics-with-mathjs/ (by Daniel P. Clark) One of the language design decisions in JS has followed in C's footsteps by providing implicit type conversions based on what operators you give it. Best System Code Geeks Articles Running Ansible on a Windows System (by Sandra Parsick) On my last conference talk (it was about Ansible and Docker at DevOpsCon in Berlin), I was asked what is the best way to run Ansible on a Windows system. PostgreSQL backup, restore, and migration Tutorial (by Gabriel Canepa) In this course, we provide a compilation of PostgreSQL tutorials that will help you set up and run your own database management system.   Apache mod_rewrite example: Redirecting and rewriting URLs (by Gabriel Canepa) In this course, we provide a compilation of Apache HTTP Server tutorials that will help you get started with this web server. New and Noteworthy from the Community Quick coding tip: Why wait for JDK 10? Lombok is one of those libraries that plugs several small gaps in fairly basic Java functionality. It covers so many small gaps, in fact, that it's easy to use it to provide some very useful capabilities for years while... Getting started with Java EE 8, Payara 5 and Eclipse Oxygen Some days ago I had the opportunity/obligation to setup a brand new Linux(Gentoo) development box, hence to make it "enjoyable" I prepared a back to basics tutorial on how to setup a working environment. Groovy Goodness: Use Range By Method To Set Steps Between Numbers Groovy has support for defining ranges in the language. When we define a range of numbers the steps between the values in the range is 1 by default. We can change the step size using the step method. Design Patterns Explained – Service Locator Pattern with Code Examples The service locator pattern is a relatively old pattern that was very popular with Java EE. The goal of this pattern is to improve the modularity of your application by removing the dependency between the client and the implementation of an interface. The @SpringBootApplication Annotation Example in Java + Spring Boot Hello guys, today, we'll learn about the @SpringBootApplication annotation, one of the most important annotations from popular Spring Boot framework, which has changed the way Java developers use Spring framework for writing Java applications. Blast from the Past ! Use Precise Java Method Parameters Learn how to pick the right method parameter types and get more robust and shorter code in your Java applications. The Best Programming Languages for Each Situation There is a question that many people take as a sign that the questioner does not understand the subject at all. Some people even find it enraging. Hibernate Architecture Overview Hibernate has a layered architecture which helps the user to operate without having to know the underlying APIs. Featured Mini-Books! JBoss Drools Cookbook Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward and backward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm. Drools supports the JSR-94 standard for its business rule engine and enterprise framework for the construction, maintenance, and enforcement of business policies in an organization, application, or service. Building a Responsive Web Testing Strategy As organizations try to increase their digital engagement, Responsive Web Design (RWD), is a leading method for achieving that goal. With responsive design, Dev teams can offer a seamless user experience (UX) across all digital platform, regardless of the end-user location or environment. Responsive web design (RWD) is an approach to web design that provides an optimal viewing and interaction experience — easy reading, navigation — across a wide range of devices (from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones). Your Suggestions Any ideas or suggestions? Shoot us an email at newsletter@javacodegeeks.com Copyright © 2018 Exelixis Media P.C., All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website(s) www.javacodegeeks.com, examples.javacodegeeks.com Our mailing address is: Exelixis Media P.C. Nafpaktias 18 Kesariani, Attica 16121 Greece Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences