Steve Perkins

Steve Perkins is the author of “Hibernate Search by Example”, and has over fifteen years of experience working with enterprise Java. Steve lives in Atlanta, GA, USA and currently works as a software architect at BetterCloud, where he writes software for the Google cloud ecosystem.

Core Java
Steve PerkinsOctober 2nd, 2020
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Using Java 9 Modularization to Ship Zero-Dependency Native Apps
Why can’t I just build an .EXE? When Java was first introduced, mainstream programming languages mostly either compiled to standalone…
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Software Development
Steve PerkinsOctober 24th, 2016
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How to Use GitLab and GitHub Together
The Source Control Hosting Landscape GitHub has been the the most popular site for hosting open source software projects since…
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Groovy
Steve PerkinsFebruary 17th, 2016
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Easy Database Manipulation with Groovy and Gradle
Groovy: The “Enterprise Hipster” Language Not everyone sees the Java programming language as sexy. However, the Java virtual machine is…
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Software Development
Steve PerkinsDecember 5th, 2014
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Go for Java Programmers: Simple Types
Part of the Go for Java Programmers series Before we get into custom types, and Go’s version of object-orientation, let’s…
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Software Development
Steve PerkinsMarch 21st, 2014
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Go for Java Programmers: Control Structures
Go (Golang) has only three basic control structures. However, each of them are significantly more versatile than their Java counterparts.…
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Software Development
Steve PerkinsMarch 20th, 2014
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Go for Java Programmers: Packages, Functions, and Variables
Go’s Familiar Syntax Due to their shared heritage in the C programming language, Go (aka Golang) code should be fairly…
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Software Development
Steve PerkinsMarch 17th, 2014
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Go for Java Programmers: Introduction
Background Go (often referred to as “Golang”) is a fairly new programming language, first conceived in 2007, with version 1.0…
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Enterprise Java
Steve PerkinsMarch 17th, 2014
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WAR files vs. Java apps with embedded servers
Most server-side Java applications (e.g. web or service-oriented) are intended to run within a container. The traditional way to package…
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Core Java
Steve PerkinsMarch 15th, 2014
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How to install Oracle’s Java on Ubuntu the easy way
Developers on Ubuntu are accustomed to seeing at least two flavors of Java. OpenJDK is an open-source build of the…
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