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Friday Java Quiz: What's Your Favorite Java 7 Feature...
Like in past years, I'm following JavaOne from afar. All I have access to are the general sessions and attendee's blog reactions to specific sessions on JavaLobby, java.net, JavaBlogs, and StuffThatHappens. And on Tuesday's session, I heard Danny Cow... |
May 9, 2008 |
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Scott Bale: What's So Great About Guice
Scott Bale's presentation about Guice at the St. Louis JUG tonight is well attended and lively. You can tell Scott liked Guice. He enumerated all the things about Guice that he liked at the beginning of the talk: small, simple powerful, type safe, no... |
May 8, 2008 |
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Friday Java Quiz: Incompatible Language Changes
The evolution of the Java programming language has been managed carefully (maybe too carefully) to avoid incompatible language changes. However, binary compatibility was given more consideration than source compatibility. In the words of one of the J... |
May 2, 2008 |
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SWT Detractors, Rejoice...
... for it doesn't work with the newly updated Java SE 6 On The Mac: Chris Adamson: I think you have that backwards. Apple's JVM has been Cocoa-based for a while now (since 1.4). SWT is Carbon-based. And even that wasn't a deal-breaker before. Th... |
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Try Out The Java Platform Detection Code
David Herron: Recently we made Java SE 6 update 10 available for beta testing. Beta testing is a period in product release cycles where testing is taken to people outside the product team, and those "external" testers bang on it with their applicatio... |
Apr 17, 2008 |
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Your jirb, groovysh and clj Commands Doesn't Work In Cygwin
This is another one of those making things work in Cygwin posts. You can safely skip this post if you are not married to Cygwin, or have not followed my Ten Steps To Higher Cygwin Productivity. The issue this time is with a little library called JLin... |
Apr 8, 2008 |
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Your Java Is Being End-Of-Life'd
cas: Hey, Weiqi, You see this yet? ...Java 5...End of Life... Me: Do you have a link? cas: http://java.sun.com/... |
Apr 7, 2008 |
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How Would You Have Reacted...
... if C|Net tells you Microsoft to work with Eclipse on Java? Well, Ted Neward is setting us an example: Ted Neward: My first reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!? My second reaction has to be characterized as... WTF?!? There's some serious... |
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Alex Miller: Exploring Terracotta
Last night's St. Louis JUG featured Alex Miller from Terracotta talking about his company's flagship product Terracotta. I deliberately refrained from learning anything about Terracotta before I came in. And I was not disappointed by Alex's delivery.... |
Mar 14, 2008 |
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Java, Bash, Cygwin, ...
I haven't used the A, B, C, ... style title for a while. Today's post calls attention to all distributors of Java products that provides a Windows batch file and a Unix shell script to run their product: YOUR SHELL SCRIPT DOESN'T WORK FOR CYGWIN T... |
Mar 10, 2008 |
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Here Comes The Cute Logo ...
... for Java closures: According to my cute logo theory, which I put forth 1590 days ago, Me: In the software world, things that have a cute logo, be it an operating system, an application, a programming language, or a middleware product, win. ... |
Mar 6, 2008 |
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Taking The J Off The JVM
(Via Slashdot.) Kas Thomas, Analyst at CMS Watch: Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, speaking at the SugarCRM Customer and Developer Conference earlier this month, made a pronouncement that went largely unnoticed by industry pundits. "I think wh... |
Mar 4, 2008 |
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Fwd: Debugging native code with Hotspot and GDB
This is related to my past posts on Debugging Into JNI Code from 42 days ago. I haven't tried it yet. I'm blogging about it so that I don't lose the link or the tip. Roman Kennke: The last couple of hours I struggled to debug a segfault some JNI co... |
Feb 29, 2008 |
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Comment On Alex Winston's Blog
It looks like java.net doesn't like me any more. I'm not allowed to post a comment to Alex Winston's blog: Alex Winston's Blog Comment Submission Error Your comment submission failed for the following reasons: You are not allowed to post comments... |
Feb 28, 2008 |
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It Looks Like I'm Not Alone
It looks like I'm not alone in wanting the Java closures syntax to be more Java methods like. Pointer Syntax for Java Closures (WarpedJavaGuy) int y = 6; boolean* (int) a = (int x) {x = y}; boolean c = a.invoke(3) && b.invoke(7); Closure Syntax ... |
Feb 27, 2008 |
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It's The People, Stupid!
The pattern of lead engineer jumping off the Java train continues with Chet Haase, the lead Java client architect, joining Adobe's Flex SDK team. Eric Burke, over there at Stuff That Happens.com, as usual, has the in depth analysis: ([Update] Eric ha... |
Feb 24, 2008 |
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Dreaming Up Syntax For Function Types For BGGA Closures
Stephen Colebourne: Function types, or method types as FCM refers to them, are one of the most controversial features of closures. Is there an alternative that provides 80% of the power but in the style of Java? Stephen went on to derive an alternat... |
Feb 21, 2008 |
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Friday Java Quiz: Know Your Closures
The closures are coming! The closures are coming!! The closures are coming!!! And don't let your baby cry out loud. To celebrate Java's entry into the closures era, today's Java quiz is about closures, specifically the BGGA closures. Will the follow... |
Feb 1, 2008 |
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The NetBeans 6.0 Story Continued: Using The Profiler
Weiqi Gao's Observation has made quite a few posts about NetBeans. Here's a list of the more interesting ones: 2004/04/15: NetBeans 3.6: Still Annoying 2005/05/03: NetBeans vs. Eclipse---Why Not Both? 2006/02/03: NetBeans Still Thinks It Competes Wi... |
Jan 31, 2008 |
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Friday Java Question: Debugging Into JNI Code
Rob asked about how to debug into JNI code yesterday. I haven't had the need to debug into JNI code for quite some time. But I know it is possible, at least on Solaris/x86 with jdb and dbx. But that was a long time ago when jdb was the only debuggin... |
Jan 18, 2008 |