Bethan Palmer

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/bethan Bethan is a Java developer and a Java Champion. She has spoken at conferences including JavaOne/Code One, DevFest and NetBeans days. She has a degree in English Literature.

   



23 Stories by Bethan Palmer

Image scaling options in Java

In this article I will give you more information about Image scaling options and some sample code. When scaling up a bitmap image, more...
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Is the new Java release cycle an improvement?

In the past, Java had a release cycle where a new version would come out about once every 2 or 3 years. This did...
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5 things we learned about var in Java at Code One

Since local variable type inference was introduced in Java 10, there has been a lot of debate, and a lot of people don’t like...
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Hacking the NetBeans IDE – 5. Overview for making a Combined Local History

To help us prepare for our talks for our talks at Oracle CodeOne – “Writing Better Code (Faster) in the Apache NetBeans IDE ” and “Hacking...
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How to read and write images in Java (Tutorial)

In this post, I will show you how to read and write image files in Java. I will demonstrate 2 different ways of doing...
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How to convert an image to a PDF in Java (Tutorial)

In a previous post I looked at why you might want to convert a PDF file to an image (you can use JPedal to...
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