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August 28 2025, Newsletter no. 297 (this newsletter is available in html format at http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/news297.shtml )



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Free Eclipse book, recently published

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My publisher is running a free Amazon Kindle book promotion through Monday, August 25th, 2025. The book, “Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game” can be obtained for $0 on Kindle on Amazon through the August 25th.…
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What is vibe coding?

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Vibe coding isn’t a formal technical term, but it’s become a slang or colloquial expression among programmers and tech communities—especially on social media and in creative coding circles.

What “vibe coding” usually means:

  1. Coding based on intuition or feel

    Instead of rigidly planning everything out, you’re:

    • Freestyling as you…
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At 9:00pm on September 9, 2025, Jim White said…

Thanks Mike!  What a blast from the past!  That Red Hat swag! ;-). Jim

At 1:54pm on September 5, 2019, Ian Darwin said…

Thanks for the invite!

At 9:50am on July 27, 2019, Zeeshan Murad said…
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At 7:20pm on January 17, 2019, Bradlee Sargent said…

I didn't mean to make you feel bad, I know how busy you must be.  It's just we could do more to promote this site.  Does the twitter thingie work for you?

At 3:30pm on December 28, 2018, Bradlee Sargent said…

Thanks so much for the birthday wishes. I know it's so late getting back to you but I don't check this website very often.

At 12:11pm on November 1, 2018, Michael Redlich said…

Thanks for the invitation and the birthday wishes, Mike!

At 8:44am on October 23, 2018, Joe McCall said…
Hi Michael. I hope CodeOne is going well. Any idea when the next JUG event will be?
At 7:50pm on October 9, 2018, Joe McCall said…

Thanks. I'm interested either way (either 10/25 or the rescheduled day). 

At 1:38pm on October 4, 2018, Ramya Beesam said…

Sure Mike. I can do that

At 9:46am on October 4, 2018, Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez said…
Hey Mike! Conference is awesome. Hoping to post talks as soon as they're up. My talk os tomorrow! Also that's great I would love to hear his talk!!! We're doing a lot with AOP and metaprogramming
 
 
 

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Transformers v5 Introduces a More Modular and Interoperable Core

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