Entries from CTOForADay.com tagged with 'java'
Knuth loses plot, film at 11.
Multithreading and multiprocessing aren't going away. Unit tests aren't some optional artefact, a crutch of the weak and/or stupid. Knuth is wrong.
Dynamic vs. Static and The Oncoming Storm
The war of dynamically typed languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, JavaScript) versus the statically typed languages (e.g. Java, C#) of the world has raged on and on for years; it's second in age and ferocity only to the war over runtime-vs-nonruntime languages (e.g. Java vs. C++). With the latter war fading into the background and each side choosing different parts of the battlefield to entrench themselves, the former have reignited recently in a few notable skirmishes.
The Art of Separation: Emos In Motion
I've come across one of the most beautiful/sad/strange sites I've seen in a long time. Meet The Dumpster, a visualization tool whose data set is a collection of 20,000 breakups posted to Internet blogs during 2005.
Getting Back On The Wagon: Maven 2 and FTP
I've just written a patch for Maven to use FTP when doing site deploys; if you're in need of it, follow these instructions.
Maven 2, Or: 2.0.4: A Space Oddity
This is a continuation of "Maven 2, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The .pom" - a post-mortem on what we expected, and what we got, from our new build system. Caveat: You may not like what you read. I'm being honest, but not necessarily nice about it.
Maven 2, Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The .pom
Maven can decipher and locate dependencies, build your software, test it, run code coverage, build reports, and a host of other endlessly useful features that would take lots of time and energy into your own build system. What I wasn't really prepared for was the cost.
Large indexes, dates, and Lucene
I've just written up the technique we used to build and construct a high-performance Lucene implementation for handling lots of dates on Lucene's wiki for all to read.
JVM/Java Grande Comparison: Acer to a PowerBook 667 (Unk PB) and PowerBook 400
The following article contains a reference to some tests done on a DP of Java 1.4.2 on a Mac; some tests, namely those from the PC, are on an unknown Acer. As the article says, the relative performance is the crucial issue here, not the actual numbers. The systems in these tests are by no means 'high performance' systems; they're both PowerBook systems, and old ones at that.
Java 1.5: The future... is furry, and has black and orange stripes.
An awful lot of people are looking forward to Java 1.5. What follows is a feature review, and a list of references for further reading on the specifications that are worth reviewing for further information.
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