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Java 8 to Java 25 with IBM Bob: A Hands-On Upgrade
I’ve been curious about how much of our Java modernization work we can hand over to a coding agent. You probably know the kind of maintenance I mean: an application still does its job, and now you need to move it to a newer Java version. Be...
Quarkus Roq: Growing a Documentation Site With Less Upkeep
I started the IBM Bob Playbook to keep track of what I was learning about Bob and share it internally. Sometimes I only need a short how-to to explain a task. Other topics need a guide or a tutorial where I can walk through the decisions. I...
WebMCP with Quarkus: Browser Tools and Backend Rules
I came across WebMCP and wanted to understand what it does. We already have MCP servers that expose application functions to agents, and this new thing is apparently letting me put MCP tools in a web page too.
WebMCP is a proposed browser...
Quarkus and Chart.js: Build Your First Exoplanet Dashboard
You might know Richard Fichtner as a Java Champion, the person behind JCON, and XDEV’s CEO. When he shared chartjs-java-model on social media, I wanted to give it a spin. Building Chart.js configurations in Java sounded useful, especially f...
Quarkus Aesh: Your Application Just Grew a Terminal
I have spent a good part of my career telling people not to SSH into production servers.
And I still mean it.
Giving somebody a Linux shell inside a running application environment is usually a terrible operational interface. You get ps...
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