Coffee Talk: News & Insight

• Aging successfully in technology: Addressing the graying elephant in the room

  Bob Reselman  16 Jun 2018 

  Is software development a game for the young? Despite maintaining a passion for programming and software development, seasoned veterans in their 40s and 50s ...

• ObjectOutputStream example: A Java object serialization tutorial

  Cameron McKenzie  13 Jun 2018 

  Java object serialization is a feature of the JDK that is far too often overlooked. When a developer puts together a prototype or cooks up a proof of concept, ...

• JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations and the hbm.xml file

  Cameron McKenzie  13 Jun 2018 

  Ever since they were introduced in Java 5, enums have been catching developers off guard. How do you perform JPA and Hibernate enum mapping with annotations or...

• How to 'git cherry-pick' from another branch to your own

  Cameron McKenzie  23 May 2018 

  In a previous tutorial, we took a look at how to cherry-pick a commit on the current branch, but one of the ancillary questions that commonly arises is how to ...

• Learn to git cherry-pick a commit with this easy example

  Cameron McKenzie  17 May 2018 

  One of the most commonly misunderstood version control commands is git cherry-pick, and that's a real shame because the ability to git cherry-pick a commit is ...

• Where system, global and local Windows Git config files are saved

  Cameron McKenzie  17 May 2018 

  Windows Git configuration is an unwieldly mess. Or at least is seems that way when you realize it's contained in three uniquely named files and spread across ...

• Google positions 'Android Things' to solve the IoT problem

  Barry Burd  11 May 2018 

  Google's Android Things development Iokit turned v1.0 on Monday. I celebrated the birthday of the new tool that hopes to address IoT problems in development by...

• Smart Compose and the Visual Positioning System impress at Google I/O

  Barry Burd  09 May 2018 

  This year's Google I/O conference kicked off on May 8 with a nearly two-hour keynote. The keynote was held at the outdoor Shoreline Amphitheater near Google's ...

• Fix SunCertPathBuilderException Jenkins plugin download error

  Cameron McKenzie  01 May 2018 

  Sometimes when you install Jenkins, a SunCertPathBuilderException appears when you access the Jenkins plugin download page. Here's an alternate fix to the ...

• Here's why you need to learn Maven and master the build tool's fundamental concepts

  Cameron McKenzie  30 Apr 2018 

  While at various conference sessions, or as a participant in development workshops, one of the sad realities to which I'm constantly reminded is that there are...