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Java is the core topic across this site. These posts cover modern Java features, OpenJDK evolutions, performance tuning, tooling, and hands-on development lessons from real projects.
The Human Side of Development: Career Growth, Staying Healthy, and Why People Matter More Than AI
Work-life balance often sounds like a slogan, but the day-to-day reality of a developer career rarely fits a clean template. Health, family, growth, and leadership all pull at the …
Foojay Podcast #86: Agents, MCP, and Graph Databases: Java Developers Navigate the AI Revolution
AI tools keep landing on Java teams faster than anyone can evaluate them. The real question is not whether to use them, but how to keep production code reliable when agents start …
Foojay Podcast #85: Code, Community, and Opportunity: Making Tech Accessible for Everyone
Talent shows up everywhere, but the chance to use it does not. Kids in underserved schools, students without a laptop, and developers outside the usual hubs all hit walls the rest …
Links from the YavaConf talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the Ya!vaConf virtual talk on December 4, 2025: “Java Champion Talk - How the new Foreign Function & Memory API pushes Java on Raspberry Pi to …
Foojay Podcast #84: Developing Performant, Cost Efficient, and Eco-friendly Code
Cloud bills keep growing and so does the energy footprint of the software we run. Tuning code often has a bigger impact than chasing a cheaper cloud contract. In this conversation …
First Experiments with Java on the LattePanda IOTA: An Alternative to Raspberry Pi?
After years of experimenting with Raspberry Pi boards, Java, JavaFX, and Pi4J to control electronics, I wanted to explore whether my knowledge and experience could be applied to …
Foojay Podcast #83: OpenJDK Evolutions plus Tips and Tricks
Two of Europe’s biggest Java conferences in one autumn brought together developers with very different stories about the platform. We grabbed a few of them between sessions …
Foojay Podcast #82: OpenJDK Projects (Leyden, Babylon, Panama) and TornadoVM
Java keeps picking up speed, and a lot of that momentum comes from a handful of OpenJDK projects most developers have only read about in release notes. Leyden trims startup time, …
Links from the JFall talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the JFall talk in Ede, The Netherlands, on November 6, 2025: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the …
Will OpenJFX Be Merged Into OpenJDK? It Would Be a Perfect Match with Java on Mobile!
While looking for articles for the JFX Central Links Of The Week, I found this very interesting article by Paul Krill on InfoWorld. It’s based on an October 29 post by Bruce …
Foojay Podcast #81: Maven 4 – The Future of Java Build Automation
Maven powers millions of Java projects, so a major version bump touches almost every team in the ecosystem. Maven 4 brings performance gains, cleaner plugin APIs, and changes to …
Foojay Podcast #80: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 2
The first AI4Devs conference in Amsterdam brought together developers, data scientists, conference organizers, and even a student to share how AI shifts their daily work. We …
Java 21+ on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is Back In Business
As described before on Java 21+ Not Working on Raspberry Pi Zero 2, a problem appeared to execute Java code on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 with OpenJDK 21 or higher. Reason: in OpenJDK …
Links from the Devoxx talk 'Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API on Raspberry Pi'
These are the links from the Devoxx talk in Antwerp, Belgium, on October 9, 2025: “The Wait is Over: Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API brings modern Java to the …
Foojay Podcast #79: AI4Devs Interviews – Part 1
AI changes how we write and ship code every week, and the questions pile up faster than the answers. At the first AI4Devs conference in Amsterdam on September 19th, 2025, I grabbed …
2025 Update of my ebook 'Getting Started with Java on the Raspberry Pi'
2025 is an important year as Java 25 got released, a version which will be supported for many more years. On top of that, the Pi4J library will soon be published as V4.0.0 with a …
Live Stream Coding: Improving the Vaadin+Spring+Pi4J demo application with Matti Tahvonen
During a live stream coding session, Matti Tahvonen and I updated an existing Vaadin+Spring+Pi4J demo application to use the latest version of the libraries and Java 25. It’s …
Foojay Podcast #78: Welcome to OpenJDK 25!
OpenJDK 25 lands as the first release where the version number matches the year. That small change signals something bigger about how Java keeps pace with developers who use it …
Release V0.0.2 of Java DMX512 Library With Universes and USB-to-DMX support
Earlier this month, I released V0.0.1 of my new Java library to interact with DMX512 devices using (optionally) the Open Fixture Library (OFL). After some more experimenting, …
Foojay Podcast #77: DevBcn Report, Part 2 - Spanish Knowledge Sharing
Conferences sound different when you hear them in the language of the people who built them. For DevBcn in Barcelona, that language is Spanish, and this short episode hands the mic …