Experienced Java developers are committed to continuous improvement. We always seek ways to make our code more readable, reliable and efficient. Java's evolution provides a steady stream of powerful ...

A friend of mine — a medical doctor, no less — once told me that he convinced a friend to take a college exam for him. Someone who takes the place of someone else is known as a proxy. Unfortunately ...

Java SE 14 (March 2020) introduced a limited form of pattern matching as a preview feature, which becomes a permanent feature in Java SE 16 (March 2021). The first phase of pattern matching is limited ...

Back in 1984, I graduated from college with a mechanical engineering degree and went to work as a software engineer. After teaching myself C programming, by 1985 I was busily developing a 50,000-line ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...

Munchausen syndrome by proxy is having an unexpected moment—at least on television. The medical disorder, which manifests when a person “acts as if an individual he or she is caring for has a physical ...

I have added a 4G router to one of my networks. I have several networks with site-to-site VPNs between them. I'd like to route specific programs in different networks to access the Internet using the ...

On the banks of the Solo River in Java, Indonesia, 19th-century physician Eugene Dubois uncovered an astounding fossil find: the bones of what appeared to be an ancient human, surrounded by animal ...