How-Tos

The Big Java News Keeps Coming: Java SE 6 and OpenJDK

How to script: A Bash crash course

An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting

A canonical Repository test

The developer’s checklist to prepare for the cloud

12 steps for an easier enterprise-to-cloud migration

The bull’s eye on mobility: Mobile for the masses

Introduction to design patterns, Part 3: Beyond software design patterns

Use patterns to improve interaction design, enterprise architecture, software methodology, and more

Recent Java 8 News

It’s a question of wow

Finding Properties in JARs with Groovy

“We Accept Pull Requests”

Everything you need to know about MongoDB

Five Favorite Software Development Analogies

Java was not the first

Testing Rails migrations

Circumventing mobile UX expectations

Um… Security risk much?

Miscellaneous Musings about RMOUG Training Days 2013

Cut-throat culture sinks an IT project

It takes more than a change in ownership to rid a company of its ultracompetitive atmosphere

Styling JavaFX Pie Chart with CSS

JavaFX Coming Soon to an Android or iOS Device Near You?

Hello GroovyFX

How do I freaking scale Oracle?

A quick-and-dirty guide to scaling your apps with Oracle DB

How Neo4j beat Oracle Database

Company's CEO and senior director of products explain what works about Neo4J

Last Thoughts on “Craftsmanship”

Hello Camel: Automatic File Transfer

After silence on Java flaws, Oracle now says it cares

Oracle reps say the company takes Java security seriously, and will prove it

How to get started with MySQL

An easy step-by-step guide to setting up a MySQL database server, along with phpMyAdmin, on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu

How to install Apache on Linux

An easy step-by-step guide to setting up an Apache Web server on Fedora, CentOS, or Ubuntu

More on “Craftsmanship”

JavaFX 2 XYCharts and Java 7 Features

On the Dark Side of “Craftsmanship”

On Functional Programming in Java

Java Zero Day Vulnerability Exploits JMX and MethodHandles

Hamcrest Containing Matchers

What the latest Java flaw really means

What you need to know — and do — about the zero-day Java security threat

Book Review: GateIn Cookbook

Determining JDK Installation

A Garbage Collection Analysis of PCGen, the popular Open Source Character Generator

Portable Logger Names with Java 7 Method Handles

Modern threading for not-quite-beginners

Best practices to avoid Java concurrency pitfalls

Constant and Global Optimization in JRuby 1.7.1 and 1.7.2

Savvy Mongo query selector: exists

Scalable searching with ElasticSearch

Tech Predictions, 2013

Significant Software Development Developments of 2012

Introduction to design patterns, Part 2: Gang-of-four classics revisited

Learn the Gang of Four design patterns in Java code, starting with Strategy and Visitor

2012: The year in quotes

Some of the most interesting, and amusing, tech-related quotes this year were uttered in courtrooms

Pushing Mongo GridFS files with Sinatra

$5 E-books at Packt

Envoy (in Scala, JavaScript, and more)