Category Archives: Projects

OpenJDK Contribution Accepted! | The Two Minutes Tuesday 032 | Java Insider Report

Posted on 14. September 2021 by Markus Karg

This week my very first contribution to #OpenJDK was finally accepted and merged into the mainstream branch. Hence with #Java 18 you will gain 2…5x faster performance definitively! If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up, share … Continue reading →

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Again on Adam Bien’s airhacks.fm #84 | Podcast | Interview | Background Report

Posted on 4. September 2021 by Markus Karg

Adam Bien called me once more and asked for another interview for his #airhacks.fm #podcast series (https://airhacks.fm/). This time we had a nice chat about JAX-RS in particular, and some other topics. In case you missed the original streaming, by … Continue reading →

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Markus on vacation! | The Two Minutes Tuesday 031 | OpenJDK Contribution

Posted on 31. August 2021 by Markus Karg

Guys, I am on vacation, so there won’t be a new video this week. Sorry for that. I know it’s hard, but you need to learn to live with it! Also my #OpenJDK contribution to improve the performance of #Java’s … Continue reading →

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I’m on Adam Bien’s airhacks.fm #82 | Podcast | Interview | Background Report

Posted on 7. August 2021 by Markus Karg

Adam Bien called me some months back and asked for an interview for his #airhacks.fm #podcast series (https://airhacks.fm/). I was rather excited about this honour and gave him a background report, how I came to programming, and my way from … Continue reading →

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What’s next? | The Two Minutes Tuesday 017 | Announcement of Live Show

Posted on 16. February 2021 by Markus Karg

If you ever wanted to know the correct pronounciation of “Eclipse Theia”, stay tuned for this week’s LIVE STREAM on Friday 20:00 CET: My guest in #ToniteWithMe this week is #Gitpod CEO Sven Efftinge from TypeFox! If you like this … Continue reading →

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A tiny plug-in based CLI framework ontop of jCommander

Posted on 8. September 2020 by Markus Karg

It is still a very initial beta, but we are rather proud of it: Today we published the source code of our tiny CLI application framework built around the terrific jCommander and ServiceLoader. What our framework provides ontop of jCommander … Continue reading →

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Contributing to Open Source Made Easy

Posted on 20. June 2020 by Markus Karg

Hey guys! How’s it going? You always wanted to contribute to an open source project, but feared the time to invest or the paperwork to sign? Or you just didn’t know where to chime in? Now you get a jumpstart! … Continue reading →

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JAX-RS Done Right! (I. – Introduction)

Posted on 13. June 2020 by Markus Karg

Hey guys! How’s it going? Since more than a decade I am part of the group which defines the JAX-RS standard meanwhile, and often I saw people using this API in a wrong way. So I thought it is time … Continue reading →

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Biggest Maven Version Ranges Mistakes

Posted on 6. June 2020 by Markus Karg

Hey guys! How’s it going? We all think that we know what’s in a Maven Version Number, but when it comes to Version Ranges we typically do common mistakes. In Episode 04 of Head Crashing Informatics you will learn to … Continue reading →

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Do you know Gitpod?

Posted on 30. May 2020 by Markus Karg

Hey guys! How’s it going? Gitpod is a new and amazing way to hack on your Java code. Just prefix your Gitlab or Github URL (pointing either to a project, branch, MR or commit), with gitpod.io/# and few seconds later you … Continue reading →

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