Links

Vlad Mihalcea posted “How to map JSON objects using generic Hibernate Types”, showing how you can use a library he wrote to map JSON columns from databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL (and Oracle and SQL Server, too) into JPA entities.
Towards Data Science, a Medium site, posted “Nine Clean Code Patterns I wish I knew Earlier,” a series of things that you can apply while coding to help future-proof your code. You probably know a lot of them (or all of them) already but they’re good reminders.
On Reddit’s r/java, user u/redikarus99 asked an interesting question, entitled “Time spent coding vs testing.” It’s an interesting question, and it’s had some interesting answers.
gitconnected posted an article called “Algorithms”, but it’s really a comparison of the definitions of “algorithms” vs “programs,” for the purpose of introducing theory and application concerning both. It’s fairly well done, as an introductory article, and defines things pretty well.

Go Basicbots

go basic game October 12, 2021
Bill Jones asked for help for his Go game, basicbots. This is, as he describes, basically a port of Tom Poindexter’s original crobots game from 1985.
Version 2.0.0 of the Ergo Framework, an online transaction processing project for Go, has been released. It’s a way of modeling Erlang’s transaction processing in Go, and it looks fascinating even for someone with limited Go experience.