Mite Mitreski

Java Day is an event that jug.mk organizes for the past 5 years. From the small group of enthusiastic presenters in EU-info center in Skopje to a full 7h filled with lectures at a cinema hall JavaDay has grown to be one of the leading technical events in the area.

What has changed over the years and what the future holds We started out as a small event with only local speakers in 2009 happening each year since then. In 2013, we had 1 person outside of Macedonia. The need for diversity was becoming more apparent. 2014 was the year we went fully international with 6 speakers coming from Switzerland, Serbia, and Bulgaria. We had participants in the audience from all the neighboring countries.
The Bulgarian JUG presence was a great addition and an awesome connection between our JUGS.

The keynote 
Corsin Decurtins, CTO of Netcetera gave an awesome talk on "how to become a great developer".
To quote the abstract:
At the core, the job of a software developer is and has always been t…

The JEP 213 - Milling Project Coin is a follow up to the Project Coin additions to Java 7. Note, as the JEP states, this isn't a Project Coin 2.0. It's more of an attempt at smoothing the "rough edges" that came along with these additions. Just as a reminder - with the original Project Coin, among other things, we got:
Strings in switchBinary integral literals and underscores in numeric literalsMulti-catch and more precise rethrowImproved type inference for generic instance creation (diamond)Try-with-resources statementSimplified varargs method invocation Try with resources has been a great simplification, especially when working with I/O code. The addition in JDK 9 is an improvement of the standard try-with-resources way of writing code. Previously in Java 7 and 8 we had;
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); // Original try-with-resources statement from JDK 7 or 8 try (BufferedReader r1 = reader) { // use buffered reader …