COVID as the new normal (and new releases)

The Stackd Podcast

Recorded Date

9/3/2021

Description

Another great episode with the entire band -- Kito, Daniel, Ian, and Josh. They discuss COVID as the new normal, NetBeans, Kotlin, IntelliJ, PrimeBlocks, Java 17 (including Spring’s announcement), Docker requiring subscriptions, and other stuff, too.

COVID-19 Virus

• The new normal? What does that look like for work going forward?

Tools and Tech

• NetBeans 12.5 on Beta 3 https://github.com/apache/netbeans/milestone/13?closed=1
• What's New in IntelliJ IDEA - 2021.2 Hell yeah!
• Spring is going JDK 17 full-force, dragging JDK 8 devs kicking and screaming into the future!
• Kotlin 1.5.30:
• Docker Desktop Now Requires Paid Subscription

UI Tier

• PrimeVue 3.7.0 Released
• PrimeNG 12.1.0 Released
• Announcing PrimeBlocks For PrimeFaces

Server Side Java

• Jakarta EE 10 Timeline Now Available

Java Core

Layrry - A Launcher and API for Modularized Java Applications

Misc

• https://typelevel.org - Let the Scala compiler work for you. We provide type classes, instances, conversions, testing, supplements to the standard library, and much more.
• https://typelevel.org/projects/ - List of projects
• https://fs2.io - Function Streams
• TestContainers - Runs Docker containers from within Java (JUnit) integration tests
• Reliably - Declare your service level objective (SLOs) as Code
• Venkat - Java magazine - Java 8 features

Picks

• Airhacks.fm interview with Cagatay Civici
• Talking Kotlin: https://talkingkotlin.com/ (Josh)
• FooJay https://foojay.io/ (Josh)
• Randomness IntelliJ Plugin (Danno)
• Xcode 13 Beta 5 (Ian)

Events

• Eclipse Con Oct 25 - 28, 2021, virtual
• Uberconf Oct 5-8, 2021, Denver, CO, US or virtual
• JakartaOne LiveStream 2021 - Dec 7th, 2021 in US
• W-JAX Nov 8 – 12, 2021, Munich, Germany or virtual
• Progressive Web Experience Dec 5-8, 2021, Clearwater, FL, USA or virtual
• Jconf.dev Dec 8-10, 2021, Chicago, IL, USA or virtual
• Archconf Dec 13-16jconf.dev Conference, 2021 - Clearwater, FL, USA or virtual
• CodeMash Jan 11-14, 2022 - Sandusky, OH