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Thu, Nov 5 2009 20:01

What's in a name (again)?

I have possibly foolishly decided to stop resisting the urge to port Joda Time to .NET. For those of you who are unaware, "use Joda Time" is almost always the best answer to any question involving "how do I achieve X with java.util.Date...
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Tue, May 12 2009 17:54

Language proliferation

I've always been aware that .NET supports multiple languages (obviously) and that Microsoft has been experimenting with this to some extent. It's only recently struck me just to what extent this is the case though. Here's a list - almost certainly...
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Fri, Feb 27 2009 11:29

What's in a name?

T.S. Eliot had the right idea when he wrote "The naming of cats" : The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn't just one of your holiday games ... When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the...
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Wed, Apr 23 2008 19:47

Programming "in" a language vs programming "into" a language

I'm currently reading Steve McConnell's Code Complete (for the first time - yes, I know that's somewhat worrying) and there was one section was disturbed me a little. For those of you with a copy to hand, it's in section 4.3, discussing...
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Fri, Feb 8 2008 23:31

Macros, and languages within languages

Ian Griffiths mailed me about macros, and explained how LISP macros were very different to C/C++ macros, working at a language level instead of at a text level. I won't pretend to understand all about what would be possible and what wouldn't,...
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Fri, Jun 1 2007 23:07

Why hasn't Microsoft bought JetBrains yet?

For those of you who aren't aware, JetBrains is the company behind IntelliJ IDEA, the Java IDE which I've heard amazing things about (I've tried it a couple of times but never got into it - I think I need an expert sitting beside me to point...
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Wed, Feb 14 2007 20:25

What would make a good Java book?

So, Groovy in Action has been out for a little while, and I'm missing it - or rather, book writing. I'd like my next project to be a solo effort, almost certainly on Java. However, I'm interested in hearing what you good folks think would make a good...
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Thu, Apr 20 2006 23:40

Groovy

Updated 7th August 2006 - It looks like closures aren't meant to require K&R bracing after all. Hoorah! Examples changed appropriately. One of my tasks at work is to investigate new languages and technologies and report back what use we might make...
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Tue, Feb 14 2006 23:06

Bringing Subversion and Fitnesse together

I've recently started working with Subversion (a version control system) and FitNesse (the Fit acceptance testing framework based in a wiki). FitNesse has a primitive version control system built into it, where it builds zip files of previous versions...
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Thu, Dec 22 2005 14:25

Visual Studio vs Eclipse

I often see people in newsgroups saying how wonderful Visual Studio is, and they often claim it's the "best IDE in the world". Strangely enough, most go silent when I ask how many other IDEs they've used for a significant amount of time. I'm not going...
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