The third and last day of the conference. The first session I went to this morning was a very interesting one, “The Busy Java Developer’s Guide to Scala” by Ted Neward. He explained the basics of the Scala programming language. Scala is a new and very interesting programming language that combines object oriented and [...]

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The first keynote of today was “Language-Oriented Computing: Shifting Paradigms” by Neal Ford. It was a good presentation (with nice slides), mainly about domain-specific languages. See also Martin Fowler’s page on DSLs.
At 9:10 I went to “Spring 2.5 On the Way to 3.0″ by Jürgen Höller (one of the main committers on the Spring [...]

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I am in Prague, at the TheServerSide Java Symposium Europe. It’s a conference much like other conferences about Java, but not as big (there are about 300 attendees) and with a focus on server-side Java technology (although non-Java stuff such as Adobe Flex and AIR, Groovy and JRuby also get some attention).
The first day started [...]

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While I was preparing my Flex presentation (Logica Arnhem, May 21st) I searched Google for Flex related sites and posts. The Singleton pattern appeared numerous times. In the Java world the Singleton pattern [1] is still subject of huge discussion.
Sometimes it even ends up as number one on a hate list [2].
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Two months ago we started with the development of a prototype application for a client of us. The goal of the prototype was to gather requirements and discuss them with the customer, which were non-technical users.
The prototype had to be constructed within a small time frame, so we chose to implement it with the JRuby [...]

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In my last blog I already mentioned the role of software metrics in my graduation assignment. Software metrics are indicators for the quality of the source of a program. For example, one of the most well known metrics is McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity. This metric gives an indication of the complexity of a method or module/class. [...]

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Two weeks a brand new Eclipse called Europa has been released.
This release is just as the previous one (Callisto; version 3.2) a combination a range of of Eclipse projects.
So this release is not only one for the Java IDE, but also the Web Tools Platform (WTF), Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), CDK, Eclipse Dynamic Language [...]

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Bjarne Stroupstrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, has an interesting technical FAQ about C++. He has an example in the FAQ that inspired me to try this out in C++, Java and C#. Have a look at the following C++ code. What do you think this prints?
(NOTE: The C++ code looks a bit [...]

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Five habits of highly profitable software developers for those who might think writing code can be career limiting
Or are we doing something wrong?
 
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Found on Javalobby a link to Russ Olsens Web Log, having a comment that pointed me to Martin Fowler who has written a nice entry about Buildix. A bundle of essential pieces of software that form the cornerstone of agile development. According to their website everything you need to get started in one easy install. You can download it [...]

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