March 18, 2007
category: Main
Given the diversity (and temperament) of the customers we serve, I don't normally do product plugs. But having just used (not just installed - I said used) Google Maps on my new Blackberry Pearl mobile handset, I have only one thing to say.
The grace with which it works comes close to a religious experience.
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category: Developers
Stefan and I are pleased to announce the release of v0.4 of the First-class Methods: Java-style closures proposal.
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category: Developers
What is the best syntax to allow anootation on types ?
I will not answer to that question but you can try
to convince me.
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category: Developers
Recently, Stephen Colebourne and Stefan Schulz post another closure
like proposal.
I am not a big fan of it but one syntax element of their proposal
is quite interesting.
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category: Developers
This blog entry explains why bound properties must not be generated
by the compiler.
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category: Developers
This short blog entry is an answer to the question:
why don't provide property change support natively in the Java compiler.
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category: Developers
This blog entry proposes a way to define properties in Java
and provides an updated version of the prototype java compiler
with property support.
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category: Developers
This blog is about shorthand syntaxes for declaring local variables
without specifying the type and the avability of a prototype compiler
to test them by yourself
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category: Developers
For an average duke, the big difference between a language like PHP, Python and Java is that you have to declare the type of the variables. In general, it's not a big beal for a statement like this one...
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category: Developers
The closure proposal specifies a new type java.lang.Undeclarable that can be used as a return type of a method to indicates that this method never returns. All instructions after a call to a method that returns Undeclarable is unreachable,...
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category: Developers
This blog is an infrared echo to Matthias Ernst's last post
titled "How far is fidji".
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category: Developers
I don't understand why the creation of array of parametrized type is unsafe ? Array of parametrized type don't seems to be inherently unsafe but some subtyping relations between array of parametrized type and some indentified classes are unsafe.
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category: Developers
Neal Gafter publishes a blog entry showing a possible path to reified generics in Java. I think that reified generics are importants
but i not totally agree with the proposal.
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category: Developers
Will we see in a near future, more VMs providing
a module repository implementing ahead of time compilation ?
And thus VMs that never interpret bytecodes !
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category: Developers
"Everyone" is having their say on what should be done for "closures" in JDK7. Here's my take.
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category: Developers
Yesterday Bangladesh defeated India and Ireland defeated Pakistan. Who are "minnows" here? At least Pakistan had some reasons - they don't have two of their strike bowlers and also miss their star all rounder batsman (although 132 all out would still be questionable). But about Indian team? - rubbish!
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