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March 14, 2010

Stephen Colebourne: Java language design by use case. In a blog in 2006 Neal Gafter wrote about how language design was fundamentally different to API design and how use cases were a bad approach to language design. This blog questions some of those conclusions in the context of the Java language.

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March 13, 2010

FindBugz Community Review. I am very fond of FindBugz (indeed it has found its way into the QA process of most projects I work on....). When visiting the site to check Eclispe 3.5.2 compatibility I found they were working on a new tool. Indeed a very interesting tool. Looks li...

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March 12, 2009

David Gilbert: JFreeChart goes to JavaOne!

Last week I received notification that my JavaOne proposal for a birds-of-a-feather session on JFreeChart has been accepted. I agonised for a while before confirming my attendance, mainly because the recession has been giving me a good kicking thes...

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Java Posse Roundup 2009

I just got back from the Java Posse Roundup 2009. It was our third year (blog entries from 2007, 2008), and therefore I can add "as usual" when I state that it was a wonderful time. This year's topic was "developer productivity", which is obvio...

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Joe Darcy: Design tips: Exception types

Expanding on a few slides from my JavaOne talk last year, here are a few tips to keep in mind when designing exception types.

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Joe Darcy: Language Model Changes as of JDK 7 Build 50

To date, there have been a few API changes to javax.lang.model.* in JDK 7. Early in the release, SourceVersion.RELEASE_7 was added to correspond to any new source-level changes coming in JDK 7 (6458819). Eventually, there will be changes to su...

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Konstantin Boudnik: Software reliability

I hope this article will help to scratch issues of software reliability. Brief discussion about established reliability practices and what has to be changed.

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Nikolay Igotti: Bug investigation (part 1 - tale of sir VIF)

Last year at VirtualBox was fun, but provided such a heavy load that I almost had no time to blog. Now let's fix this a bit. There are several almost detective stories of recent bug hunting in VBox core I'd like to share. They show level of complexi...

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