For those unaware, Minecraft realms are a subscription-based service using which players can get their private servers. They are excellent for playing with friends. There are many different custom ...

SkyBlock is one of the best Minecraft maps ever created. It inspired several Minecraft servers to include SkyBlock as an independent game mode and even make several new types of tweaks to it. The ...

A colleague of mine recently ran into an issue that I have not run into myself, but found to be interesting and, in my opinion, worth blogging about here. During some distributed Java development, my ...

Java versioning has never made a lot of sense. The last time it did was back in the late 1990s, when the first full increment product release, Java 1.0, carried the same version number as the ...

Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in technology, music and popular culture. He lives in Dublin. He is on Twitter at @brokenbottleboy. (show all) Mic Wright is a journalist specialising in ...