Monday, 18 December 2006

Javapolis whiteboards on Java language changes

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At Javapolis I 'looked after' a set of whiteboards on which all 2800+ participants were free to write up their ideas for improving ...
Thursday, 7 December 2006

enum + switch == NPE

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Enums hide most of their implementation successfully from the developer., You just use them as constants, assign them to fields, call metho...
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Monday, 13 November 2006

Days.daysBetween(today, christmas);

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Using Java, how many days are there between now and Christmas? Its actually quite a tricky calculation to get reliably right (Did you forge...
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Monday, 6 November 2006

Generics, Iterables and Arrays - more banging of the head

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Yes, I'm back again, with another Java 5 example that caused me to bang my head against the wall (see yesterday ). Lets recap the sce...
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Sunday, 5 November 2006

Generics == bashing your head against a wall

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Well, I've been spending a few hours generifying commons-collections recently. The jobs only just started, and my head hurts from all t...
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Tuesday, 29 August 2006

Closures - async bad, sync good

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Closures. Great or not? Well given its properly up for discussion I thought I'd add my opinions. (I'll assume you've read the ...
Wednesday, 23 August 2006

Extension methods and closures

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Extension methods are a C# feature that just could prove very useful in Java, particularly with the possibility of closures in Java (somet...
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