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Groovy: The Red Pill
Here at JavaOne there is a huge buzz about scripting languages. I just got out of the session called “Groovy, the Red Pill” by Scott Davis. Scott has been one of the most entertaining speakers here so far. The best part of this session was not that he was funny, but he […]
Memory, memory everywhere and not a byte to eat
I love the Hibernate framework from JBoss, truly I do. The productivity that it gives me is through the roof, well once I got used to it that is. I do have to admit that this past week has greatly tested my affection for this best of breed ORM tool. During a […]
Lies or Statistics?
I have been hearing some buzz in different news sites about how slow Java is. There have also been a few people that I have run into in the past month that have been asking about it. Where is this coming from? I thought we put the “Java is so stinkin’ slow” […]
Does your code still work? Are you sure?
I have been talking with quite a few people lately asking them what strategies they use for testing their applications. I was a bit surprised to find that most of them only do a little bit of functional testing by making sure that what they just wrote actually works. They don’t do testing […]
Half Life of Skills: Staying on the Power Curve
Every once in a while I stop to take a look at where technology has come from and where it is going. This time my musings took me back to the late 90’s and what it was like to hard wire all my HTML into Servlets, WOW what a great idea that was! […]