Chris Wedel is a fan of all things tech and gadgets. Living in rural Kansas with his wife and two young boys makes finding ways to stay online tricky — not to mention making my homestead smarter.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The Java String printf method can be confusing at first, but it greatly simplifies how you ...

ABSTRACT: Microservices have revolutionized traditional software architecture. While monolithic designs continue to be common, particularly in legacy applications, there is a growing trend towards the ...

As we’ve seen, strings are ordered collections of characters, delimited by quotation marks. But what kind of characters can be included in a string? Since Python 3.0, strings are composed of Unicode ...

Generics make your code more flexible and easier to read, and they help you avoid ClassCastExceptions at runtime. Get started with this introduction to using generics with the Java Collections ...

In recent years, elite commercial spyware vendors like Intellexa and NSO Group have developed an array of powerful hacking tools that exploit rare and unpatched “zero-day” software vulnerabilities to ...

A 36-year-old was charged with 17 counts of vandalism on Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco. It's not the first time Waymo's self-driving cars have been vandalized. The incidents indicate tensions ...

Introduced with the Java 17 release, pattern matching enhances the instanceof operator so Java developers can better check and object's type and extract its components, and more efficiently deal with ...