With each new Java platform release, the stewards of the language always include a few new preview features that can be toyed with only if a developer knows how to unlock the capabilities at runtime.

As I’ve written about before, Vagrant is handy tool for creating localized VMs. It’s a lot like firing up EC2 images, but, for the most part, things are localized (you can, by the way, use Vagrant to ...

I have this server that's only jobs is to run this scientific Fortran code and send the results back to the client. I had an earlier issue where there was so much diagnostic messages and just plain ...