A few weeks ago some co-workers of mine were having a discussion about IDEs and concluded that their Eclipse would be the right choice for all most every project. Sure IntelliJ had some nice features and so has JDeveloper, but Eclipse had plugins to do the same. Did Eclipse had the best of the IDE [...]

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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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After developing in Ruby on Rails for a while I settled back in ‘Java land’ for a good old Java project. For this project we extended the capabilities of an existing webapplication built on Struts, Spring and iBatis. Sounds like fun doesn’t it ?
Well to be honest those frameworks are pretty solid and stable and [...]

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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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Lately there has been more and more attention for scripting languages, watch the blogosphere and there are postings all over about Groovy, Scala, JavaFX and (J)Ruby. One of the reasons for this attention was the release of the JSR 223: Scripting for the JavaTM Platform. This made it a lot easier to integrate scripting languages [...]

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Feels like I’m back at my HP/UX terminal, revisiting the bash shell. Funny, the way the command line interface seems to be making a comeback. As far as I know Microsoft Vista is to sport a powerful command line as well.
Why the trip down memory lane? Well, I’m attending a session on Dynamic languages as [...]

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Currently i am attending the JavaPolis 2006. A nice event with interesting topics and nice interesting people to meet. It is located at a nice venue in Antwerp called ‘Metropolis‘. If you are in the neighbourhood it is surely worth a visit and grab a movie if you are there. Enough said about the venue [...]

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[bandwagonesque mode on]
Back in the nineties OO Developers were either hard core c++ hackers or a more modest but effecient python programmers (or maybe japanese lone wolf ruby writers). Nowadays, script language practitioners are called script-kiddies and real developers use Java or C#. Ten years ago programming was all about compiling your human readable files into native machine code, today we [...]

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