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In this How To article I demonstrate implementing scene transition, or view change, animations in a JavaFX application. In my opinion it is these types of finishes that help to provide a well polished and professional experience to users. As developers we are lucky in that the JavaFX UI framework makes it really easy to providing this enhanced user experience.
In this article I demonstrate how to implement the Comparable and Comparator interfaces in Java. Both of these interfaces are used to control the order in which objects in Collections and Arrays are sorted. I additionally discuss when you might want to use one over the other depending on use cases.
In this article go through some fundamental Java techniques to work with textual data via the String, StringBuilder and StringJoiner classes. My use "text" is deliberate when referring the the type of data because I want to make clear when I'm talking about a kind a data (data as a sequence of char primitives) as opposed to the String class which is an abstraction of text data as strings.
In this article I present a minimal Java Gradle project that utilizes Apache Avro serialization and integrates with the Confluent Schema Registry for managing message data formats used by Apache Kafka producers and consumers.
In this article I review the concepts of Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) emphasizing the value and flexibility that this software architecture provides through indpendentent optimization of writing and reading data access patterns.
In this article I demonstrate how to use the AWS Parameter Store to decouple and externalize configuration for a Spring Boot application.
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