c11th century Volcanic Stone sculpture of #Hindu God #Ganesha from #Java #Indonesia now on display at the "Ancient #India: Living Traditions" ongoing exhibition (22nd May-19th October 2025) at British #Museum London
Supported by Reliance Foundation and Reliance Industries Limited

#TheGoldenRoad

Am Mittwoch treffen wir uns für ein Picknick am Rhein zum offenen Austausch

Wann? 17:30
Wo? Malakoff Passage Ausgang Rheinseite, dann gemeinsam zum Winterhafen

Kommt gerne auch spontan vorbei!

https://events.ijug.eu/events/871b39c2-bd6b-4d96-97a1-4c5fc9310b9d

Suggestion: Rename the maven-shade-plugin the real-slim-shady. #Java

Hat-tip to @meistermeier

#Fossils of #Homoerectus and contemporary animal species collected from the #Java seabed. They help to re-create what a landscape now drowned by the sea once looked like.

#anthropology #palaeontology

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/seafloor-clues-ancient-human-relatives

https://www.securityweek.com/esim-hack-allows-for-cloning-spying/

Old Java Card vulnerabilities resurface in eSIMs

There is a new #java meetup in town (#cologne) https://lu.ma/java-meetup-cologne

Wenn ich mich auf dem deutschen Markt für Softwareentwickler:innen so umschaue sollte ich wohl irgendwann mal #Java lernen.

Today's Poll...

Which were the earliest programming languages used in the field of AI?

I have created a thing with #Java that I needed for #Maven and #GraalVM so that I can provide fat-jars (needed for tools that don't do dependency management) that don't behave different in #NativeImage than our normal distributions:

https://github.com/michael-simons/native-image-config-transformer

Maybe this is helpful for others, too.

Today's #AI wins - 1.) Trying to gaslight me into believing that matrix multiplication is always commutative. 2.) Getting confused by it's own if-else branching and repeatedly vomiting the same few subclauses into deeper and deeper nesting. #softwaredevelopment #software #llm #java

#macOS #programming people, I need some help.

I have #Java code that parses a CSV file that was written by Microsoft Excel. It therefore needs to know which character encoding was used.

On Windows, the Java system property “native.encoding” is set to Cp1252, which matches what Excel writes. On my Mac, however, native.encoding=UTF-8, but Excel writes in MacRoman!

TextEdit also assumes CSV files are MacRoman when reading them.

Anybody know how Excel and TextEdit choose their default encoding?

Look at that… Haven't counted, but the distribution of female and male names at #JugSaxony day looks great https://jugsaxony.org/day/programm and I am less sad they didn't pick my talk. Also, not "the usual suspects" all over the place. Well done, and a lot of success for the conference. #Java #Diversity

Any company with air conditioning, that is not forcing employees to work with genAI, in the Heidelberg area looking for a backend developer? (I know I should be moving north but I have somewhat grown roots in HD.) No arms industry! #getfedihired #rust #java

EqualsVerifier 4.0.4 is out!

For those times when you need an array of an enum type that only has 1 element

Check it out at https://github.com/jqno/equalsverifier/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Anyone any leads in for contract/freelance work in Game Development, Mobile, Grails/Spring or PHP/Laravel?

I want to be your next #FediHire ! I've been a programmer since 1985 (as a child), I've been an IT professional since 1995 (pulling wires and swapping cards and configuring MS Windows). I graduated from University of Arkansas Fayetteville with a BS in CS in December of 2003. A full resume is available.

I currently require a 100% remote position. I cannot relocate from Cove, #Arkansas. I would prefer W-2 employment with a base salary of at least 130k USD/yr, plus some sort of retirement offering (401k or similar) and healthcare benefits (HDCP + HSA or similar).

I prefer something where I can be a high-performing individual contributor: reading, writing and improving source text the majority of my day, with some time spent knowledge-sharing with other developers -- learning and teaching. I'd like to work with #Haskell, #Purescript, or #Idris as the primary source language. I've previously delivered value in Haskell, #Javascript, #SQL, #Python, #Scala, #Java, #C, and #C++ among others. I can be productive in almost any language (no PHP, please; I promised myself never again).

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on https://www.jfx-central.com/links.

Thanks to
@cryptomator
Christopher Schnick
@jabref
@rladstaetter
Catherine Edelveis
Matt Coley
@quarkusio
@holly_cummins
@maxandersen
Clément de Tastes

Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!