Typographers Have Spent a Thousand Years Trying—and Failing—to Render Arabic Properly

How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita ...
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RxJava: Reactive Extensions for the JVM

RxJava is a Java VM implementation of Reactive Extensions: a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs by using observable sequences. It extends the observer pattern to support ...
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Dockerized ElasticMQ server + web UI over Alpine Linux for local development.

Alpine SQS provides a containerized Java implementation of the Amazon Simple Queue Service (AWS-SQS). It is based on ElasticMQ running Alpine Linux and the Oracle Java 8 Server-JRE. It is compatible ...
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Newly-found letters, photos highlight Elvis' GI times in Grafenwoehr

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — A special exhibition featuring newly recovered photos of Elvis Presley’s time as a soldier in Germany nearly 60 years ago has opened at a museum near the U.S. Army base in ...
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Java Cafe opens at Baumholder

BAUMHOLDER, Germany — Melissa Grant and Elisa Caro, two Baumholder Army spouses, sat over their steaming Starbucks brews and leisurely chatted about the kids, the upcoming holiday and places to look ...