I just finished up the Java 8 lambda’s and streams class. I finished a little later than I wanted to because I decided to upgrade to Windows 10 last week which was an epic failure. I used the media download tool to upgrade prior to my machine coming up in the queue and all the upgrade ran normally and things appeared to work fine. At the end it booted up and presented a login screen. I attempted to login and the machine sat there spinning for about a minute and then rebooted. After coming back the same. At that point I realized I made a mistake trusting the upgrade and my normal windows procedure is to buy a new drive, do a clean install and then bring my data over. (That was last Wednesday.) So Thursday at noon I ran over to Microcenter and bought a new drive. Then over the weekend I did a clean install of 10 and copied my data from the old drive. I am not up and running on 10 and I would have to say I like it more than Windows 7. It seems fast on my old machine, the UI improvements are great, but I haven’t yet had a chance to test any of my games on Steam to see how it handles video gaming. A coworker tried to upgrade his Windows 7 laptop which also failed but his automatically rolled back. My nephew was able to successfully run the upgrade from Windows 8.1 so it seems like 8 is a safer OS to upgrade from.

After a month long hiatus I have returned. I have been traveling for most of the last month so the blog sort of fell to the side. Now that I am done with my summer travel I hope to be back to the weekly posting schedule. That being said I don’t have a lot of updates as I have been vacationing and not doing a lot of work so it was recharge time and not explore new technologies. However today there is a new MOOC starting that people may be interested in, it is the Java 8 Lambda and Streams Intro class. I plan on going through this class to try to improve my way of thinking to be more functional when solving problems in Java. I am hoping to do some work to push a container upgrade at work in the next couple of weeks which will allow us to go to Java 8 in production in the following month so with any luck I will be using these new constructs come fall in my projects.