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This is the first in a series of articles that will quickly go over some of the more interesting bits of the Kotlin standard libraries for Java. Today’s run-through is about some of the more interesting affordances for I/O based programming.

Java 8 now has some functional concepts. How functional can it really get, though?

Java 8 introduces lambdas, but it also introduces method references which are a very handy syntax for producing lambdas off of objects and classes. I walk through the various types here.

Java supports throwing exceptions of a generic type, but it is rarely a useful trick. With Java 8, that is changing.

Setting up bi-directional relationships in Google App Engine efficiently can be tricky. I show you an efficient approach here.