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

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 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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Java 10 Local-Variable Type Inference Explained in 5 Minutes

The biggest new feature in Java 10 is the introduction of the Local-Variable Type Interface. What is Local-Variable Type Inference? This new feature will...
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Replacing ImageIO with the JDeli image library

We created JDeli to be a better alternative to ImageIO. If you add JDeli to your classpath, ImageIO will automatically use for all supported...
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What is new in Java 8?

Java 8 has been out for some time now and here at IDRsolutions we have been busy updating our software to take advantage of...
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