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31 July 2025
Latest Posts: How to become an AI-powered developerGetting started with Spring AIAI Engineering with Spring AI and JavaJava turns 30 years, let’s celebrate!Finding Your Own Voice in the Tech CommunityIn-person Mentorship at “The Developers Conference”: Becoming a Global Developer, conquering the WorldSimplifying Multi-line Strings with Text Blocks in JavaHow to (NOT) be a boring Tech speakerHow to Grow a Successful Java Career with Rafael del NeroThe all-new Switch Case with steroids in Java 21The right language to share Tech ContentEnhancing Collections with Sequenced Interfaces in JavaThe most important programming language in 2025Becoming an AI-augmented developer (and why you have to)The Power of Consistency in a Developer’s CareerBuilding Good Habits for a Successful Developer CareerDon’t Be Afraid to Make Mistakes in TechOpen Source: Start your Path to ContributionLevel Up your Dev Career with a Java ChampionThe road to pursue an international careerJava or Python? Which one is better? Choose your side! [LIVE]Unlocking ChatGPT for Java with Spring AIJava 22 is born! And you are already outdated!How to Receive Payments in Dollars or Euros in 2024 and Earn Money While Doing ItWill AI put an end into the Software Engineer / Developer career?That’s why remote work sucksBuilding your own local ChatGPT chat bot with LMStudioWelcome to the place where your Global Developer Journey starts!
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Java 22 is born! And you are already outdated!
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Java 22 is born! And you are already outdated!

I work with Java since 2011 and these last years we are seeing awesome new features in the language that are long time requests from the Java community, some of…

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Building your own local ChatGPT chat bot with LMStudio
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Building your own local ChatGPT chat bot with LMStudio

Yesterday, I’ve joined a fantastic conversation in the “Out of the Box Developer” live stream from SouJava International Community about having your own local ChatGPT like chat bot in your…

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Welcome to the place where your Global Developer Journey starts!
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Welcome to the place where your Global Developer Journey starts!

I’m trilled to announce the launch of my brand new blog igorfragadev.com where we’ll be talking about Software Development and Architecture, Java, A.I. but mostly important than this, is how…

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REST APIs: are you building them right? Join Thiago Bomfim @ThiagoBfim & Igor Fraga @igorfragadev for a live talk on best practices, pitfalls, performance & security. July 15th, 6PM BRT.
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How to become an AI-powered developer
The future of development is here, and it's powered by AI! 🚀
Are you ready to elevate your skills and become an AI-Powered Developer? #AI #developer #agents

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8 Jul

Getting started with Spring AI is the first post of the series that teaches how to integrate Spring Java applications with LLMs. These series are built upon the six repositories with real Spring AI implementations that I've shared here last week

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Do you want to learn how to empower your RESTful Web Services with AI? I'm sharing in my latest post AI Engineering with Spring AI and Java not just one but SIX repositories with REAL working implementations to get you started #java #springai #ai #rag #llm

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