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Fri, Nov 6 2009 18:02

Noda Time is born

There was an amazing response to yesterday's post – not only did readers come up with plenty of names, but lots of people volunteered to help. As a result, I'm feeling under a certain amount of pressure for this project to actually take shape...
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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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Thu, May 14 2009 18:03

A different approach to inappropriate defaults

I've had a couple of bug reports about my Protocol Buffers port - both nicely detailed, and one including a patch to fix it. (It's only due to my lack of timeliness in actually submitting the change that the second bug report occurred. Oops.)...
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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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Fri, Dec 5 2008 17:52

Redesigning System.Object/java.lang.Object

I've had quite a few discussions with a colleague about some failures of Java and .NET. The issue we keep coming back to is the root of the inheritance tree. There's no doubt in my mind that having a tree with a single top-level class is a good...
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Fri, Aug 29 2008 20:25

Data Structures and Algorithms: new free eBook available (first draft)

I've been looking at this for a while: Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated reference with examples . It's only in "first draft" stage at the moment, but the authors would love your feedback (as would I). Somehow I've managed...
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Fri, Jun 20 2008 17:33

Automatic lambda expressions

This morning I happened to show a colleague (Malcolm Rowe) the neat trick of using nullable types and the null-coalescing operator (??) to implement compound comparisons in C#. He asked whether it wouldn't have been nicer to make this a library feature...
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Tue, May 6 2008 23:08

The Beauty of Closures

Fairly soon I'm going to write a blog post comparing the different proposals under consideration for Java 7 when it comes to closures. I thought it would be worth writing some background material on it first though, so I've put an article on 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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Tue, Sep 18 2007 0:21

Java isn't an acronym

Just a quickie while I remember. A pet peeve of mine has surfaced again recently, while reading some CVs. Java, the programming language, is just written "Java". It's not an acronym. There's no need to write it as "JAVA". That...
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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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Tue, Apr 3 2007 21:07

Sheer Evil: Rethrowing exceptions in Java

This morning, I was looking through some code and I was annoyed (yet again) at Java's exception hierarchy, particularly when it comes to checked exceptions. Just as a reminder, everything that can be thrown in Java derives from Throwable . The predefined...
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Wed, Feb 28 2007 15:51

Wacky Ideas 3: Object life-cycle support

No, don't leave yet! This isn't another article about non-deterministic finalization, RAII etc. That's what we almost always think of when someone mentions the object life-cycle, but I'm actually interested in the other end of the cycle - the "near birth...
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Wed, Feb 28 2007 10:38

Wacky Ideas 2: Class interfaces

(Disclaimer: I'm 99% sure I've heard someone smarter than me talking about this before, so it's definitely not original. I thought it worth pursuing though.) One of the things I love about Java and C# over C/C++ is the lack of .h files. Getting everything...
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Tue, Feb 27 2007 20:46

Wacky Ideas 1: Inheritance is dead, long live mix-ins!

(Warning: I've just looked up "mix-in" on Wikipedia and their definition isn't quite what I'm used to. Apologies if I'm using the wrong terminology. What I think of as a mix-in is a proxy object which is used to do a lot of the work the class doing the...
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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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Wed, Jan 3 2007 19:19

Groovy 1.0 released

Groovy 1.0 has finally been released, and is available for download from the Groovy home page . For those of you who didn't read my last blog post on it, Groovy is a dynamic language which runs on the Java platform and integrates very nicely with Java...
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Wed, Dec 13 2006 23:46

Everything old is new again

I feel I'm too young to be making this kind of statement, but the sense of deja vu I get when reading about the layouts in WPF makes me nearly laugh out loud. Of all the things I can remember about Java 1.0 (this was before any number of things we take...
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