Mark Stephens

  https://www.idrsolutions.com Mark has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and is a big NetBeans fan. He enjoys speaking at conferences. He has an MA in Medieval History and a passion for reading.

   



187 Stories by Mark Stephens

3 ways in which Java modules will change the way you write code

This month we are looking at which version of Java you should be running. In our other articles, we look at Java 8 vs Java...
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Which JDK should I use now?

Updated on 25th September 2019 The official release of Java13 was last week while we were also attending Oracle’s CodeOne conference. Having attended lots...
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What is Skara (and why does it matter)?

This month we are focusing on OpenJDK projects you should know about. In this post, we will be covering Project Skara. In other posts we...
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Adding multi-jar and Jigsaw support to JPedal and JDeli

One of the really exciting features added into Java 9 was the ability to have a multi-jar release. This means if you want to...
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Downsampling by averaging

All the techniques for downsampling involve tradeoffs in terms of speed, quality, and memory usage. They also tend to do better on some types...
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