Time to check in on IntelliJ IDEA 2018! It’s time for another EAP build or two for 2018.2. We take a look at what’s in both EAP 5 and EAP 6: Docker improvements, global file watchers, darker themes, and more.

Agile and ISO aren’t incompatible; it’s time to challenge conventional beliefs. In this article, Nathan Sykes makes the case for Agile and ISO.

We’re still excited about the recent Angular v6 release but the show must go on. The current release focuses on the toolchain and on making it easier to move quickly with Angular in the future so we’re excited to see what Angular v7’s “theme” will be. But until then, let’s focus on what we do know – the beta season for 6.1.0 has begun.

Have you already taken your first steps with maker boards like an Arduino and successfully implemented your first projects? The maker hardware and software is sufficient for the first steps in the Internet of Things, but questions arise. Andreas Schmidt will explore these questions and more in this three part series. First, let’s start with the basics of the technology stack.

Are you familiar with progressive web apps or PWAs? In this article, James Grills gives us an overview of the benefits of using PWAs and discusses the future of web and mobile app development with progressive web apps.

How does DevOps fit with database development? Eero Mattila, the principal systems consultant for information management for Quest Software, has a different picture in mind. In our interview from DevOpsCon 2018 in Berlin, Mattila explains to us what you need to be aware of in this field and which tools are absolutely necessary for database development and DevOps processes.

What is Jakarta EE? What does it mean for a project to go open source like Java EE? In this interview, Ivar Grimstad, the PMC Lead of EE4J, gave us five minutes of his time to tell us about EE4J and Jakarta EE.

What is and isn’t part of Java? The question has a more in-depth answer than you may suspect. In this article, Simon Ritter discusses the differences in definitions between terms such as Oracle JDK and OpenJDK.

Every code snippet that you will ever need is probably somewhere on the internet. All you have to do is ask for it. So why do we keep writing code? What’s our value as developers? Sarah Saunders talks about the skills that underline our job description as developers.

JSweet is a transpiler that takes code from Java to JavaScript with over 1,000 available JavaScript libraries. See what it can do and unwrap something sweet with its Maven repository.

How do we know what’s important enough to measure? How do we get a holistic picture of organizational health? How do we ensure our metrics help us more than they hurt us? JAXenter editor Gabriela Motroc caught up with Julia Wester at DevOpsCon 2018 to talk about all this and more.

You highly value test automation but debugging tests is giving you a hard time? Meet Gauge, an open source test automation framework that is here to take care of your test wounds!

The blockchain market shows no signs of slowing down and this technology is one of the hottest skills in the IT job market. However, if you want to get an overview of all the open source blockchain projects out there, you should head over to GitHub. That’s exactly what we did.

Have you ever thought of having a multi-language and multi-cloud development platform? Pulumi is the multi-machine that will make the dream come true!