CodeRanch Journal - December 2022

T h e . C o d e R a n c h . J o u r n a l
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December 2022 Edition
Howdy from all the CodeRanch staff, and welcome to the December edition of the Journal.


A . S p e c i a l . T h a n k s
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Over the time, there were a lot of developers who improve CodeRanch software.
To name a few: Jeanne Boyarsky, Andrew Monkhouse, Ron McLeod

But there is always an engineer who works constantly behind the hoods on improving our software - Devaka Cooray. A big thanks Devaka!
https://coderanch.com/wiki/659748/ActiveStaff#devakacooray

Our neighbours from permies.com have great testers who test software, so everything what's delivered gives you an impeccable experience.
We simply couldn't exist without them!


S o o n . J u m p i n . J F o r u m . D a y
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Stay tuned. An upcoming journal will tell you all.
But looking retrospectively - there were always some subtle feature to be released.


I n t e r e s t i n g . C o d e R a n c h . F o r u m . T o p i c s
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Measuring Java Collections performance

What appears to be, that understanding an underlying data structure implementation, can give you an intuition about the presumable performance results.

Java operations order

Try to challenge ChatGPT to explain you that concept.

Subtleties of Regular expressions

One could write even a dissertation on that topic alone.


B o o k . P r o m o t i o n s . & . W i n n e r s
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There's a book (or software) promotion just about every week at CodeRanch. Just ask a question in the appropriate forum and you're eligible to win a copy of the book.

We've got some promotions coming up. Check the Book Promotions Schedule.

Some upcoming ones are:

January 17 - Practical Debugging at Scale: Cloud Native Debugging in Kubernetes and Production by Shai Almog

Recent promotions winners:

Data Structures the Fun Way - Tim Holloway, Stephan van Hulst, Chirag Soni, Mike Gosling

Testing Web APIs - Carl McGee, Jose Almonte, paul nisset, Junilu Lacar

More Book Promotions Winners.


B o o k s . a n d . R e v i e w s
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We have several forums dedicated to talk about books. Here are some interesting reviews and recommendations from the CodeRanch staff in our Book Reviews forum.

The Book Review Grid will give you an overview.


C o d e R a n c h . S t a f f
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Thanks to all staff that volunteer their time and share their knowledge to make this site the friendliest place on the web to learn.  

A special thanks this month to the following members...

Marshals: Campbell Ritchie :: Tim Cooke :: Devaka Cooray :: Ron McLeod :: Jeanne Boyarsky

Sheriffs: Liutauras Vilda :: paul wheaton :: Junilu Lacar

Saloon Keepers: Tim Moores :: Stephan van Hulst :: Piet Souris :: Carey Brown :: Tim Holloway

Bartenders: Martijn Verburg :: Frits Walraven :: Himai Minh

C o d e R a n c h . N e i g h b o r s
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Richsoil - Permaculture articles n stuff by Paul Wheaton
Permies - Permaculture and homesteading goofballs


T h e . M o o s e . o n . S o c i a l
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The CodeRanch announces latest news/developments frequently on our social media outlets. You can find us at:

Twitter

Mastodon

Facebook

Follow / Like us so you don't miss a thing.


T h i s . M o n t h ' s . E d i t o r
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Liutauras Vilda - a sheriff, who's wandering around here for almost 10 years now, well, not yet, in the next 2 years or so. But it doesn't hurt to give you a hint what's coming.


S u g g e s t i o n s / F e e d b a c k
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If you have any feedback on this month's journal then feel free to create a topic in our Ranch Office.


J o u r n a l . A r c h i v e
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Our previously published journals you can find here.