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Friday Java Quiz: Know Your IDEs Capabilities
It has been my experience that most Java developers nowadays use an IDE (or IDEs) for their daily work. Knowing the capabilities of these IDEs may make you more productive. However, most developers also has a tendency to learn just enough of their IDEs ... |
Mar 12, 2010 7:16:11 AM |
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Java, Sun, Oracle, ...
This has been an eventful week in the tech world. Two events stood out: one is an upbeat look into the future—of PC-less computing/entertaini... |
Jan 29, 2010 8:16:34 AM |
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Friday Java Quiz: Trivia Questions
The St. Louis Java Users Group put on a Trivia Night 8 days ago. All the St. Louis JUG steering committee members pitched in providing questions and Brian Gilstrap put in a lot of thought and work to make the whole thing work. Since I haven't posted a ... |
Jan 22, 2010 7:57:06 AM |
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Java News Brief (JNB): Reducing Boilerplate Code with Project Lombok
I can't believe it's 2010 already. Happy New Year (and New Decade)! May the new year and the new decade bring brand new experiences to life and work. Talking of new experiences, Lance Finney and the OCI Java News Brief crew marks the new year with a ... |
Jan 1, 2010 10:46:46 AM |
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Mark Reinhold: JDK 7 Will Not Ship Until The Java SE 7 JSR Goes Final
Mark Reinhold: Q By the way, why was the JDK 7 schedule extended? A The schedule was pushed out, to at least September 2010, so that we can finish several critical features as well as have time to submit an official Java SE7 Platform JSR, form an Expert ... |
Dec 3, 2009 6:39:50 AM |
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Wednesday Java Quiz: What Does It Print?
Q: Will the following Java program compile? Run without exceptions? If so, what does it print? import javax.swing.*; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { JButton button = new JButton("OK"); ... |
Nov 25, 2009 7:42:49 AM |
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Closures In Java 7: It's On Again
Alex Miller: Apparently Mark Reinhold announced that closures would be added to JDK 7 at Devoxx today: I am, well, surprised. Having commented on closures in Java somewhat verbosely in the past, I don't have any words left in me about this ... |
Nov 18, 2009 11:27:07 PM |
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Friday Java Quiz: Can Your Thread Withstand My Interruption
It has been 1267 days since Java Concurrency in Practice was published. I trust that all self-respecting Java programmers have read the book cover-to-cover. Today's Friday Quiz is a concurrency one. Q: Will the following Java class compile? Run ... |
Nov 6, 2009 6:50:11 AM |
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Friday Java Quiz: What Was The Programmer Thinking?
It's been a while since I last posted a blog entry here (or tweeted over there, for that matter). It mostly have to do with the new schedule I'm trying to maintain with a new client. I use to go to work at 8:45am and arrive at 9:00am. Now I start a ... |
Aug 28, 2009 7:43:42 AM |
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Jeff Brown's Probability Quiz: What Are The Chances ...
... Jeff is of course talking about Grails, SpringSource, and Clojure. Near the end of the post, Jeff challenged his readers with a probability brain teaser: Jeff Brown: I am honestly not sure how many technologists work for SpringSource but for the ... |
Aug 3, 2009 9:40:08 PM |
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The JVM Is Not The Center Of The Universe!
If you follow the Java blogs and tweets in the last couple of years, you've heard the argument that the Java vitual machine is where the value of the Java platform is, and Java the language is mrely one language among many languages that allows ... |
Jun 30, 2009 2:00:00 PM |
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Larry Ellison: Committed To JavaFX
It's been several days since I came back from JavaOne 2009. This is my first JavaOne. Since the keynotes were streamed live, and the twitter stream were constantly being updated by so many people, I did not feel the urge to blog about it at the ... |
Jun 10, 2009 10:41:33 PM |
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Dependency Injection Annotations To Come To A JVM Near You.
(Via Twitter, where else?) Remember this (my blog reaction to Google Guice 1.0)? At the time I wondered: Me: Guice, Or Something Like It, Should Be In The JDK About the only thing that makes feel a little bit uncomfortable is the use of Guice ... |
May 5, 2009 1:23:22 PM |
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Friday Java Quiz: Shadowing A Variable Name
I haven't posted a quiz for 34 days. It's time to have one. Q: Will the following PL/SQL code compile and run without exceptions under the Oracle JDK? If so, what will it print? .ln { color: rgb(0,0,0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .s0 ... |
May 1, 2009 9:34:03 AM |
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Oracle To Buy Sun
I woke up to the news of Oracle's acquisition of Sun today: Oracle/Sun Press Release: Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) and Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will ... |
Apr 20, 2009 10:00:13 AM |
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Eric Burke: Android At The JUG
Once upon a time, a blog post a couple of hours after a JUG talk was considered a fast news reporting. Not anymore! For Eric Burke's Android talk tonight at the St. Louis JUG, twitterers (@codetojoy @kylecordes @scottbale @MarioAquino @puredanger) were ... |
Mar 13, 2009 12:34:18 AM |
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Java News Brief (JNB): Clojure---Functional Programming for the JVM
The March Issue of the OCI Java News Brief (JNB) is out. Since I last reported on JNB in December, three JNB articles have appeared: Eric Burke—A Simple Android App and a Threading Bug Dan Lewis—Google Collections, Part 2 Mark ... |
Feb 28, 2009 4:08:17 PM |
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Neal Gafter: Block Expressions For Java
(Via The Java Posse Google Group (Via Twitter)) Neal Gafter: A parenthesized expression can now contain additional statements, for example declarations of temporary local variables to avoid recomputing a value used only within the expression. This ... |
Feb 24, 2009 7:55:55 PM |
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Friday Java Quiz: What Are These?
Q: You were doing your normal Java development chores and suddenly you notice a spurious log/ directory that contains three files: [weiqi@gao ~/log] $ ls Logfile.1* Snapshot.1* Version_Number* What did you do to create this directory and the files in ... |
Jan 16, 2009 12:45:37 PM |
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Friday Java Quiz (Almost Three Days Late)
Q: Will the following class compile? Run without exceptions? If so, what will it print? .ln { color: rgb(0,0,0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .s0 { color: rgb(0,0,128); font-weight: bold; } .s1 { } .s2 { color: rgb(0,0,255); } 1 ... |
Jan 11, 2009 9:47:43 PM |