Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Searching Jars with Java Closures

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(Ed's note: see this post for a better example of closures. This one is intended for direct contrast with a Groovy script: the resulti...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Java Closures: A Quick Look

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Neal Gafter is back! And he has brought treats for Halloween by way of a prototype on the closure proposal . Essentially, it's a binary...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Jargon Watch: PragProgged

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PragProgged : To joyfully convey a novel idea with respect to software development, only to discover, via research or conversation, that sai...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Thieves in the Temple: Vandals, Dragons and Warp Guns on the JVM

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Here are some motivators for this post. 1. Wired recently featured a piece on a new game called Portal. (Be sure to check out the awesome i...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Grok Like an Egyptian: The Weirdest Language

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These days, it seems that the older languages are new again. Lisp, Smalltalk, and Erlang are getting a lot attention (yes, they are all much...
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Happy 9th, Bug 4152790

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A colleague pointed out this bug , as filed against the JDK. A Happy (belated) 9th to Bug 4152790! (Check out the comments) Delightful... T...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Exposition as Genius

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Recently, a colleague stated an eloquent view of genius: An accomplishment is not truly ingenious if the person cannot explain it. I love th...
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