For Java-based programs such as Maven, Jenkins, Gradle or Tomcat to run, they need to know that Java's JDK is installed. That's the purpose of the JAVA_HOME environment variable. It tells programs ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The latest long-term support (LTS) release of the JDK is Java 21, which was released in ...

What’s the difference between versions of Minecraft? That’s not as simple a question to answer as you might think. Most current players will be used to whatever version they’ve started on, whether ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. SoftBank is leading a $280mn funding round in US location-mapping company Mapbox, as the Japanese ...

This project allows encoding and decoding of MapBox Vector Tiles (MVT). It is originally based on mapbox-vector-tile-java, which is unfortunately discontinued and I want to thank its authors for their ...

Goodbye CDs, jump drives and visiting a dealer for an update. The next era of in-car navigation is here. Toyota is saying goodbye to the industry's dumb navigation maps, working alongside partners ...

Java Roasters is a coffee roastery in Leslieville that makes specialty home brew coffee. It was founded by two long-time best friends who run the roastery together. Kay has been in the coffee business ...

Eric Gundersen sipped tea and haggled for maps as he sat in the basement of a government office in Kabul. A tattooed, fast-talking American with perennial stubble, Gundersen was running an 18-person ...