Java 8 will start complaining about the use of an underscore by itself as a variable name.

Doug Lea has proposed to promote memory fencing mechanics into implementation APIs in Java. I cover what this means.

I show how with some Jekyll plugin work you can create full fledged category and tag homepages for your site in Jekyll

Accessing JMX interfaces has been phenomenally difficult over the years due to some limitations. With recent Java 7 builds, that is a thing of the past.

Another batch of concurrency utilities is in the pipeline for Java as JEP-155. This is part one of a short summary of what is planned.