Amanda Smith is a freelance journalist and writer. She reports on culture, society, human interest and technology. Her stories hold a mirror to society, reflecting both its malaise and its beauty.

Shelby Schools Superintendent Michael Browning is working with students on how to show respect and how to be successful in a special program called ‘Guys with Ties’. Back in 2024, Browning explained ...

A Logstash input plugin that reads blobs from Azure Blob Storage and streams their content line-by-line into your Logstash pipeline. Built with Microsoft's first-party Java Azure SDKs, this plugin ...

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Get started with Java streams, including how to create streams from Java collections, the mechanics of a stream pipeline, examples of functional programming with Java streams, and more. You can think ...

Martin Plaut, a journalist, academic and author, delivers a sweeping historical account of African enslavement across five millennia, tracing its global routes, atrocities and lasting legacies. He ...

The Shelby City School District administrators are currently seeking public input on the spending of specific federal and state program funding according to Paul Walker, Program Coordinator. The ...

At first glance, this looks like a duplicate. But from the context, I think the first line shows the string literal with escape characters (what you write in code), and the second line shows how ...

Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is arguably the most powerful innovation in AI integration to date, but sadly, its purpose and potential are largely misunderstood. So what's the best way to really ...

Java just celebrated its 30th birthday — but this legendary programming language shows zero signs of slowing down. Created by Sun Microsystems in 1995, Java revolutionized how developers build ...