“Why I stopped using OpenBSD”
I’ve linked to quite a few posts by OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne on OSNews, mostly about her work for and knowledge of OpenBSD. However, she recently posted about her decision to leave the OpenBSD team, and it mostly comes down to the fact she h...
What is Rust? Safe, fast, and easy software development
A programming language can be fast, safe, or easy to write. As developers, we get to choose our priorities but we can only pick two. Programming languages that emphasize convenience and safety tend to be slow (like Python). Languages that emphasize pe...
Kotlin for Java developers: Classes and coroutines
Java is one of the classic object-oriented languages, so classes and objects are of special interest to Java developers. Object-oriented programming gives you considerable power, particularly when it comes to structuring and organizing programs as the...
Azure AI Foundry tools for changes in AI applications
The way we use artificial intelligence is changing. Chatbots aren’t going away. We’ll continue to use them to deliver basic, natural language, self-service applications. But the future belongs to multimodal applications, built on large language mo...
Upgrade to Freedom! The Switch from Windows 10
The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-functional hardware to operating systems that can extend the life of their laptops, desktops or other d...
Azure AI Foundry tools up for changes in AI applications
The way we use artificial intelligence is changing. Chatbots aren’t going away. We’ll continue to use them to deliver basic, natural language, self-service applications. But the future belongs to multimodal applications, built on large language mo...
Prague JUG 2024
Prague JUG 2024 Yesterday I was in Prague and spoke at the Prague Java User Group (CZJUG Prague). It was hosted at the university. Actually the university where Apache NetBeans was initially created. Unfortunately, I forgot that and ran my demos in IDE...
