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March 12, 2010

Oracle Java and PRINCE2. Looking already at SOA and ITIL, I started reading up on other project lifecycle standards popular in the United Kingdom. PRINCE2 (PRojects In Controlled Environments) methodology naturally was the one that caught my attention. I'm not going t...

March 12, 2010

Scala Recognition Continues to Grow. Two years ago, a java.net poll asked Have you tried Scala? At that time, 38% of respondants had no idea what Scala was. This past week's java.net poll suggests that recognition of Scala has grown considerably in the past two years. A total of...

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January 21, 2007

Introducing jMaki Charting

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jMaki Charting is a BSD based open source project focusing on providing jMaki enabled widgets for charting.

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Stephen Colebourne: Closures - Last-line-No-SemiColon nastiness

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The BGGA closures proposal currently plans to use a last-line-no-semi-colon to return the result of the closure back to the closure-defining method. I personally find this rather nasty. What about an alternative?

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Stephen Colebourne: Closures - Last-line-No-SemiColon - Part 2

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Neal Gafter replied to yesterdays post about last-line-no-semicolon nastiness to say that Id got BGGA syntax wrong. Damn! Unfortunately, I dont think that fixing the syntax to be BGGA solves the issue I was highlighting.

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Stephen Colebourne: Closures - Control-invocation syntax

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The BGGA closures proposal includes a control-invocation syntax for calling closures. This is viewed as a convenient way to call some closure-control-methods (APIs). Unfortunately, the use cases envisaged in the proposal seem too limited to me.

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