My ever growing 'programming videos backlog' on YouTube... I'm sure some of you can relate to this 😁

I'd estimate around 200-250 videos of 369 videos have been watched, on a train, plane, while eating, ...

Still some left to go :)

Playlist if interested: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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TIL that calling addFirst(b) on a linkedhashset that has values with insertion order [a,b,c] willl make the insertion order become [b,a,c] (reminder: add would be a no-op)

And the same thing goes for addLast()!

It does feel intuitive and adheres to the principles of least astonishment.

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TIL about #db2 the diff between VARCHAR and the VARGRAPHIC type.

you should use the VARGRAPHIC datatype if you want to encode ascii characters that take up more than one byte (ie: é,è etc), because for VARCHAR : each position takes a single byte, and VARGRAPHIC reserves two...

Chapters 1–7 of the second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications are now available in early release (sorry, O'Reilly subscribers only at this point). Among other changes, you may notice that we now talk about “sharding” rather than “partitioning” www.oreilly.com/library/view...

This book is the Grey and Reuter of the current generation. New edition coming!

My blog post on the front page of r/java, my first time speaking in front of a warm @bejug.bsky.social community and a shiny bejug speaker + jules destrooper cookies courtesy of @tomcools.be just makes me inspired to do more 🤩

I ❤️ the java community

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Time for @wimdetroyer.bsky.social to give his very first session (quicky)!

#visitor pattern ftw!

Soon! Still more places. Here is the updated card which also features our Quicky speaker @wimdetroyer.bsky.social!

I’ll be speaking at BeJUG tomorrow and in the spirit of proper preparation, I’ve released another blog post to accompany my talk 🙂

You can find the article on my website: wimdetroyer.com/blog/visitor...

I hope you enjoy reading!

PS: you can still participate:

www.meetup.com/belgian-java...

Wrote about a problem I had where my configuration properties were no longer bound when upgrading from Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3, and the proper way to define your configuration properties

wimdetroyer.com/blog/the-pro...

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