Merry Christmas! This has been one of the most requested features for me to add to the tutorial, so here goes. While it modifies the free tutorial code, the concepts here can also apply to the book. Saving and loading…
Vaadin Flow Trepidation
I started using Vaadin about a year ago and was really happy with the results. I got a nice looking web application written almost entirely in Java. I also found being able to work around the traditional MVC pattern refreshing.…
Java for the Real World Updated for Java 11
With Java 11 being released in just over a week, I have decided to push out a significant update to Java for the Real World. For a limited time, you can get the book for only $11.11 in celebration of…
Java Build Tools: Ant vs. Maven vs. Gradle
This is an abbreviated chapter from my book Java for the Real World. Want more content like this? Click here to get the book! For anything but the most trivial applications, compiling Java from the command line is an exercise…
Markov Chains in Scala
Although Markov chains have use in machine learning, a more trivial application that pops up from time-to-time is in text generation. Given a sufficiently large enough corpus, the generated text will usually be unique and comprehensible (at least from sentence…