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The Unicode Debate Rekindled
The perennial debate about how best to support multibyte Unicode in Ruby is heating up again, and thanks to the progress of Rails and JRuby, this time there is more at stake...
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Top 10 New Things You Need to Know About Java 6
Sun Microsystems' Danny Coward and Mark Reinhold have published the top 10 features in Java SE 6 beta 2, as well as a list of approved and co-bundled features, including the bundling of Java DB (Apache Derby) into the JDK.
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Resource Injection in the Java EE platform Overview
One of the simplification features of Java EE 5 is the implementation of basic dependency injection to simplify web and EJB components. Annotations are used for injecting resources, services, and life-cycle notifications. A new tutorial on java.sun.com shows how to use annotations to do resource injection and we've summarized what can be injected and where.
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Scala: combining the best of Ruby and Java?
Like Ruby, Scala has a very terse syntax and its extensibility makes it suitable for writing DSLs, like Java, Scala is statically typed and can call Java code seamlessly without any declarations or glue code. Scala founder Martin Odersky (who co-designed Java Generics and implemented javac) has started blog today with his first entry on the history which led up to Scala.
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InfoQ Book: Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks
InfoQ has partnered with Minh T. Nguyen to bring you Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks. The book explains how to use VS.NET efficiently, including everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE. The book covers the Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, and 2005 Beta 1 releases.
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Nemerle: A Hybrid Programming Language For The .NET Platform
Nemerle is a hybrid language developed by the Computer Science Institute of the University of Wroclaw in Poland. It is a high-level statically typed language that offers functional, object-oriented, and imperative features. It has a simple C#-like syntax and a meta-programming system.
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RailsDay 2006 Registration Now Open
Time to register for one of the most exciting events in the Rails universe this year. RailsDay 2006 is your chance to showcase your Rails talent and win big prizes.
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Beautiful JavaScript Windows and Dialogs for your Application
French expert user-interface programmer Sebastien Gruhier releases latest version of his beautiful Prototype Windows code, based on Prototype and compatible with Scriptaculous effects.
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Opinion: Final should be default, not deprecated
Elliotte Rusty Harold has joined a growing discussion across some blogs and lists about the topic of deprecating the final keyword in Java, saying that in order to properly design by contract, most methods should be marked final until the language can be modified to do this by default (and only then eliminating the keyword).