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Building Native Covid19 Tracker CLI using Java, PicoCLI & GraalVM

When it comes to building CLI apps, Java is not your first ( not even among the top 3) choice that comes to mind. However, one of the amazing things about java is its ecosystem and vibrant community, which means that you can find some tools/libraries for (nearly) everything. Golang

Java 14 features: Text Blocks & Foreign-Memory Access API

This is the fourth and last post in the blog post series I wrote covering the features that has been added to java 14, released just a couple of days back. Java 14 / JDK 14: General Availability: https://t.co/THxJ9llBpj #jdk14 #java14 #openjdk #java — Mark Reinhold (@mreinhold) March 17,

Java 14 features: Switch Expressions, JFR Event Streaming and more

This is the third post in a series of blog posts highlighting some features and improvements that will be introduced in Java 14, expected to go GA in a couple of days. In this post, We will have a look into Switch expression, JFR streaming, as well as some various

Java 14 new features: Records

This is the second article in the blog post series discussing the new features introduced in java 14. Today's article is focused on Records that aims to provide a compact & concise way for declaring data classes. Java 14 rew features articles: * Pattern Matching for instanceof, jpackage & helpful NPEs * Switch Expressions,

Tweets Sentiment Analysis using Stanford CoreNLP

We're living in an era where data become the most valuable resource! Nearly every app in the market now, tries to understand its users, their behaviours, preferences, reactions and words! How many times, just after mentioning a watch ⌚ in a private conversation with your friend on messenger, your Facebook feed

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