In the project which I recently joined, I discovered a set of annotations, (part of the code) that eventually did not add any functionality but they were marking classes or fields as a potential bad implementation, or as a potential case that may need to be reworked. The original author, had created a very elegant way …

So it is time, after 10 months living and working in Luxembourg, we are leaving. Packaging, arranging relocation, lots of emails, contracts, papers, some anxiety, waiting - it just May 2015 again for me, when we decided to leave Greece. I wish this is my last relocation for the upcoming years, so wish me luck. I have …

One of the projects I follow lately, is Wildfly Swarm. Eventually my request during this year's Devoxx in the JBoss BOF, to consider changing the name of the project, did not go through (due to the conflict with the famous Docker Swarm). So what is Wildfly Swarm? Simply put, is the Wildfly application server (app …

2015, what a year. The year that I eventually managed to get out of my comfort zone (or one of them) and left my country, to work and live abroad, I also proposed to my wife and got engaged. The most weird and unfortunate year in terms of job and career, that did not go very well - many funny people with funny stories …

Well I needed to kill some time during this strange intermission period between jobs. My original 1-hour hack (less than 100 lines of code), evolved to something more flexible and useful (I hope so). Eventually my father is very happy now, instead of 1 newspaper summary he now receives He was also kind enough, to email …

Recently I stumbled upon several articles and examples of this handy library called JSoup, and I wanted to give it a try. It was a good opportunity to play and experiment around with CSS Selectors. My main need was a family request. My father is a captain for the trade navy. He still travels around the oceans in big …

I am new to Vert.x but as a Java developer (die hard) I find it much more enjoyable and promising comparing to NodeJS or whatever - Reactor based frameworks/libraries. So I was going through implementing a very simple Restful API, using Vert.x. My problem for today is that I wanted to include some certain HttpHeaders …

Well yet another Devoxx is over for me, it must the 5th of 6th time (or more) can't remember to be honest. it's 3 years since my last one, so it was kind of a come back :). Devoxx (Belgium) is growing, actually it is the first time that I have seen so many people. The venue must have increased the overall amount of …

This is my short review of the day. Java SE8 for Java Developers Java 8 is slowly increasing it's adoption rate. I think this is a good thing and this is what the speakers and many people from the industry suggest. In Java 8 we have a tone of new language features, some of them are being demoed a lot in these recent …

There were are 3 days full of Java and other technologies as well. Here is my review of the day. Opening keynote(s) The first part of the opening was about Devoxx. The creator Stephan Jansen and some of his colleagues went through the updates regarding the 'Devoxx_ ecosystem of conferences that is now booming. London, …