A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...

Mojang Studios has always conducted special Minecraft events that are either hosted annually or to commemorate a milestone. The developer never fails to host a massive in-game party every time it ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

While the Hashtable was part of the initial Java release over two decades ago, the HashMap is the correct key-value store to use today. One key HashMap vs. Hashtable difference is the fact that the ...