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There is a nice explanation on Stack Overflow by Brian Goetz

No @XmlRootElement generated by JAXB

Converting between java.time.LocalDateTime and java.util.date

For any new parents who are also fans of fantasy, this bit by Tom Smith is brilliant.

A nice explanation of Merging vs Rebasing

By Bill Sempf

Some of the comments are excellent.

To reopen a closed tab in Intellij and reproduce as closely as possible the control+shift+tab functionality in browsers, use Ctrl + E. This will open the recently closed files tabs. It isn't exactly the same, but I think it is about as close as you'll get.

To update Intellij settings for the jvm running intellij, you may need to edit bin/idea64.vmoptions. The 64 bit version rather than the idea.vmoptions version.

And I wish you all a Happy New Year. Meaning that I wish for your New Years Eve to be happy. It’s hard to wish hundreds of thousands of people to have an entire happy year. That’s a lot. That feels greedy and hopeless and also some of you might not deserve a happy year. Everyone deserves a happy moment or day now and again but a whole happy year I would wish on maybe eight people and four of them are terminally ill children.