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Learn More About JRuby (on Rails)
Last night Charles Oliver Nutter, one of the JRuby leads gave a 2+ hour talk on Ruby, JRuby, and JRuby on Rails to the Gateway JUG in St Louis. Slides and a transcript are available online.
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InfoQ Interview: Joshua Bloch on Closures, Needed Java Features, Google
In this video interview, Core Java language designer Joshua Bloch talks with InfoQ about the need for Closures, Functional Programming, Java's need for better resource management, Java Puzzlers, and cool stuff Google is doing with Java.
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Review of The Ruby Way by Hal Fulton
We take a look at the recently released second edition of "The Ruby Way" by Hal Fulton and see whether it's deserves the hype.
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Two years later, frustration with Generics continues
Laird Nelson describes his frustrations with understanding Java Generics. While clear in the simple case, as he works through a more complicated scenario, he ends up throwing them away because they're so complicated. Are we helping or hurting ourselves by using Generics?
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Annotation Transformers in TestNG: The Sweet Spot for Annotations?
In the ongoing search to find the balance between XML and annotations, TestNG has introduced the concept of annotation transformers. An annotation transformer is code that will override the behavior of existing annotations. This allows you to modify your annotation without using XML and without recompiling your source. You will have to recompile your annotation transformers if you change them.
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SOA Programming Models Article Posted
Author Boris Lublinski provides an overview of WCF (Indigo), JBA and SCA. These programming models attempt to go beyond just service invocations by seamlessly incorporating service orchestration support and many of the patterns required for successful SOA implementation. They also serve as a foundation for implementation of the Enterprise Service Bus.
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Patterns and Practices Summit
The 2006 Patterns and Practices Summit has begun. This Microsoft Sponsored event runs through October 12 and covers a wide gambit of issues, technologies, and techniques.
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New Closures Proposal from Doug Lea, Josh Bloch, and Bob Lee
A new proposal for adding closures to Java 7 has been proposed by Josh Bloch, Doug Lea, and Bob Lee. It was drafted in response to the other major proposal currently in the works. Lee notes that the goal of the new proposal is to try to find a balance between the power of closures and the weight of new syntax.
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Ruby Metaprogramming Techniques
Ola Bini looks at several common metaprogramming techniques in Ruby.
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Javolution Real-Time Library 4.0 Released
The Javolution project has recently released version 4.0. Javolution is a real-time library aiming to make Java applications faster and more time predictable. The new version includes enhanced XML support and even faster object recycling.
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Domain Specific Languages: A summary of recent ideas & debates
Recent discussions have introduced new distinctions useful for understanding the use cases for DSLs. Joel Spolsky explained how the use of a DSL avoided large porting costs and simplified deployment/maintenance. Mark Dominus made the case that design patterns are a sign of language deficiency. Buko Obele says DSLs are a bad idea because they do not do a good job controlling change over time.
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LANG.NET 2006 Presentations Available
The videos (slides+audio) from the Microsoft-hosted LANG.Net Symposium are now available. Talks include "Dynamically Typed Languages on the Java Platform", " Ruby on the CLR", "Spec#", and "VB 9". The conference focused on programming languages that target managed execution platforms such as the .NET CLR.
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Spring and OSGi - A Perfect Match?
The Spring Framework has become a favorite of enterprise application developers. The OSGi specification and various Java implementations has also been growing in popularity. Work has recently begun to combine the power of these two complementary frameworks with a specification supported by BEA, Oracle, IBM, Eclipse, the OSGi Alliance.
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GNOME 2.16 - Now with C#
GNOME, the popular desktop environment for Linux, has started offering C# bindings for the GTK+ and GNOME libraries. This has resulted in Mono, an open source version of the CLR, becoming a GNOME dependency.
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Five Habits of Highly Effective Software Developers
What are some of the code-level practices of highly effective developers? Robert Miller wrote a detailed article on Java.NET covering 5 practices which could apply to any language, including minimalist constructors, methods with clear focus and intent, minimizing logic in mutating methods, and minimizing dependendies between behaviour methods.