Tech Per

At least for the application developer.
Back in the days of Java1, two cool parts of this new platform was the threading apis and the JDBC apis. These APIs have both had immense success. But I think we, as application developers, should forget about them. I know I mostly have.
There are good reasons, that these apis [...]

For some time now, I have been bugged by a firewall somewhere along the path between my development machine and our Oracle database. The firewall seems to close the open database connections after some time of inactivity. It was particularly irritating, as my favourite SQL plugin in IDEA locked up IDEA totally, needing a kill [...]