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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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February 24, 2009

JCP Java ME EC special election

As you may have heard there is a special election taking place NOW through March 9, 2009 for a seat on the JCP Java ME Executive Committee (EC). The special election is necessary because Intel has vacated its seat. Note that...

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Too Much Time On My Hands

How much catch-up does JavaFX have to do? Also: Java Today: Inside RIA looks at JavaFX, RIA Weekly interviews Josh Marinacci on JavaFX, and OpenJDK 6 now in FreeBSD ports collection Weblogs: Tile maps for games, developing MEP client applications, a...

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Square tile map

Many games use graphical maps based in iterative tiles. There are only three regular polygons that can be used as tiles: triangles, squares, and hexagons. Consider the square tiling first. Such tiles are most often used in games because of their ease...

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