I didn't see this one coming. 🧐 Congrats and thank you to @AlexGoldbal for his latest OSS contribution to @EclipseCollect. Now it is possible to boxed mutable primitive lists. Much appreciated and well done!🙏 Thanks to EC committer @motlin for submitting the issue last year.🙏

My latest blog. Using the Jackson library to persist my #JavaFX ToDo List to JSON. I learned a lot building this little application and writing this blog. Hopefully other folks will learn something useful as well. Enjoy! 🙏 donraab.medium.com/using-the…

I ❤️stuff to fiddle with at my desk too @mono_quito89 . Add coffee and my favorite reversible graph paper notebook for doodling. 👍#TheCoffeeClub #Java #EclipseCollections #JavaOne

My daughter saw this in person at #JavaOne yesterday. This was her first time attending a tech conference. She met many of my #Java friends and heroes, including most of the amazing folks on stage here. Thank you everyone for helping make her first @JavaOne a great one. 🙏👏🤗

The networking is the conference. An impromptu selfie with @Java_Champions @ebullientworks @aalmiray @cowtowncoder @evanchooly in the #JavaOne exhibit hall. It was amazing to see you all in person this week!

If you’re at #JavaOne on Day 3 and haven’t picked up a free deck of playing cards, drop by the BNY Mellon booth next to the Hackergarten in the exhibit hall. You can learn about the fun open source Deck of Cards code kata and also get an @EclipseCollect sticker there.

Just met up with @matthewdietz7 @ghawley6 and got a sneak peak of our booth! So excited to be at #JavaOne!

If you’re at #JavaOne this week, and would like to see my talk about “Surviving Open Source” for the past two decades. You can find the session below. There are many great talk choices, and I very much appreciate all who sign up for my talk. 🙏 reg.rf.oracle.com/flow/oracl…

How to create a case insensitive Bag using @EclipseCollect. donraab.medium.com/how-to-cr…

Great teams deserve great coffee #TheCoffeeClub

Do you miss working with former co-workers? Collaborate with them in open source or give a talk with them at a meetup or a conference.

I take lots of sunset pictures on my bike rides. I enjoyed the symmetry in this one.

As of the 🟠 @EclipseCollect 11.1 release, there is now an AsciiDoc version of the Reference Guide. github.com/eclipse/eclipse-c…

I consider myself fortunate to have had my code reviewed by @sirishapratha @NikhilNanivade @motlin @CGuntur @zakhav @itohiro73 @rinatigati @AlexGoldbal @aqsa_ma @dev__emilie. I've learned much in the process. They may have learned some things in code reviews from me too. 😀

Why contribute to @EclipseCollect? We care about design, code quality and performance. We're always looking for opportunities to improve. It's challenging work. I've been working w/ several contributors the past few months on some Spring cleaning. 🧹🏕️♻️ donraab.medium.com/help-want…

Today is my 5 year anniversary at my current employer. 3rd longest job for me so far. I love that I get to work with @CGuntur @NikhilNanivade @sirishapratha @rinatigati @AlexGoldbal @rodrigograciano @Marzomi1 every day of the week. People you work with & for make the difference.

Are you using @EclipseCollect and Jackson libraries in your project? Check out this blog about a kata from @AlexGoldbal which leverages the amazing jackson-datatype-eclipse-collections library maintained by @yawkat. Thank you both! medium.com/@goldbal/eclipse-…