May 22, 2007
The Top 10 Open-Source Destinations at the 2007 JavaOne Conference. This year's Conference celebrates the free and open software environment with a new Open Source...
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May 22, 2007
Top 10 Destinations for Enterprise Developers at the 2007 JavaOne Conference. Here are 10 must-see destinations and some related recommendations for enterprise developers at...
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March 08, 2007
March 08, 2007
I'm attending the Java Posse Roundup right now and won't have a chance to post in detail about this until next week, but since the news is out I wanted to make sure I let you all know what's up....
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March 08, 2007
There are at least three separate proposals recently put forward in the space of "Closures for Java." Among the criteria for evaluating the proposals, I'd like to discuss two: conciseness (possibly phrased as convenience) of code using the construct, and expressiveness. Conciseness is pretty obvious, and you can compare the proposals on this measure by writing snippets of code that do...
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March 08, 2007
I've been reading/playing with Scala. Scala has the concept of "singleton types". If types are considered as sets, singleton types are sets with only one object. A singleton type is expressed in Scala using object.type. To refer to the singleton type the expression for object has to be "stable". Informally, this means the expression that denotes the object should evaluate to the "same ...
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March 08, 2007
I've spent this week at the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, Colorado. It's been just amazing. Obviously, the afternoon skiing has been fantastic, but more importantly, the conference itself exceeded all my expectations. It's an Unconference, which is quite different from normal conferences. I certainly had some scepticism that it would be productive, but boy was I...
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