When should you deploy a Java app to the server as a traditional WAR file, and when should you use an embedded server in the application itself?

Installing the Oracle JDK on Ubuntu is painful since it was removed it from the apt repositories. Restore the easy install method with this simple script.

When your app is too small for a DI framework, yet has too much config for environment variables, this old-school gem really hits a sweet spot in between.

How to use free-form JavaScript code to add more power and flexibility to Ant builds, with no extra dependencies!

How to package up a project's code, along with all of its dependencies, into one monolithic JAR file that can more easily be distributed and executed.