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Presentation: Eclipse, Mylyn and the TFI
Mik Kersten offers a two-part presentation on productivity enhancement using Mylyn's task management features including offline editing, background synchronizations and change notifications with demos of how these work for Bugzilla and JIRA. Part two looks at how Mylyn's frameworks can be extended for IDE, desktop, and server-side applications.
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Google Guice 2.0: Enhanced Capabilities, Less Boilerplate
Guice, a lightweight Java dependency injection framework created by Google, recently released version 2.0. InfoQ spoke with Google Developer Team member Jesse Wilson to learn more about this release and what capabilities it adds to Guice.
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OpenJDK 7 / JDK 7 Milestone 3 Released
A new milestone of the next generation JDK has been released, which includes several new features and enhancements in many functional areas, like garbage collection, NIO and more. This is also the first version where OpenJDK and JDK will have (almost) identical code-bases.
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"Original Sin" (Would Java be Better Off Without Primitives?)
Gilad Bracha reopens an old debate; can a language be OO and rely on primitive types? He advances an argument that Java fails to be truly OO because "Java’s original sin was not being a pure object oriented language - a language where everything is an object." The core of the post is whether or not Java could be just as efficient without types. Yes.
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Article: Metamodel Oriented Programming
In this article, Jean-Jacques Dubray questions the belief that code and models are two separate worlds. He presents a unified view of Model Driven Engineering, Architecture and Programming models based on a novel approach to specify execution element semantics in DSLs.
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Rich Hickey on Clojure's Features and Implementation
In this interview from QCon London 2009, Rich Hickey talks about Clojure. The discussion includes the ideas behind Clojure's STM support, what other concurrency primitives Clojure supports and which ones might get added in the future. Other topics covered are Clojure's AOT support, the role and implementation of multimethods, Clojure ports to other systems and much more.
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Article: Spring BlazeDS Integration - What it Is and What Does it Change?
This article looks at the Spring BlazeDS Integration project and provides examples of how applications are wired and how to convert an existing Spring project to use the new integration.
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Interview: Paul Hudak on Haskell
This interview with Paul Hudak, recorded at QCon San Franscisco 2008, begins with a discussion of when to introduce difficult Haskell concepts like monads; moves to a discussion of the philosophy of higher order programming, the success and influence of Haskell, its use in the mainstream, and concludes with the idea of teaching computer music and Haskell simultaneously.
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Presentation: JQuery - a Javascript DOM Library
Announcing a presentation on JQuery: a JavaScript library that provides cross-browser compatibility, Ajax and DOM services, rapid construction of interactive prototypes, and the addition of dynamic behavior to existing Web applications. The presentation introduces Jquery, demos it use, and discusses particular features that differentiate it from similar library products
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SCA Extensions for Event Processing and Pub/Sub
Service Component Architecture (SCA) is a today’s most popular programming model for building applications and systems based on a Service Oriented Architecture. A new “Assembly Model Specification Extensions for Event Processing and Pub/Sub” allows to further extend SCA’s reach in implementation of the event-driven systems.
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Presentation: 10 Ways to Improve Your Code
In this presentation recorded during QCon SF 2008, Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.
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Andrej Bauer on Language Design
Andrej Bauer starts essay, On programming language design, with a simple premise, “Programmers are just humans: forgetful, lazy, and make every mistake imaginable.” Then he looks at what this really means in how we design languages.
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Presentation: Making Roles Explicit
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2008, Udi Dahan, The Software Simplist as he calls himself, explains why sometimes it is not enough to apply good OOP and patterns lessons. He introduces a new principle: make roles explicit.
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Interview: Tools for the Open Web
Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith open with a definition of the Open Web, the tension arising from multiple Web technologies, the diversity and "polyphony" of Open Source, the future of Web development tools, and the debate associated with the possible evolution of Javascript. The potential impact of HTML 5 on tool and Web development in general is discussed.
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Sun's Disagreement With Apache Overshadows Java 7 Announcement
Sun Microsystems have published an updated schedule for JDK 7 along with a list of the approved features, but the ongoing disagreement with Apache over licensing the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK) for Java SE threatens to overshadow the announcement.