Intermediate Java

Wait! I thought design patterns were meta-boilerplate to a functionalist…

dcbyron — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:11:41 +0000

Neal Ford continues his series, Functional Eye for the Imperative Guy, with a multiparter on Design Patterns: Functional thinking: Functional design patterns, Part 1: How patterns manifest in the functional world Functional thinking: Functional design patterns, Part 2: Same problem, … Continue reading →

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Cache as cache can

dcbyron — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:35:46 +0000

Neal Ford is at it again with part 3 of his Groovy subseries, which is but a part of his broader super-series on functional programming: Functional thinking: Functional features in Groovy, Part 3: Memoization and caching. Cache as cache can © … Continue reading →

Never never never never never!

dcbyron — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:41:06 +0000

Dhanji R. Prasanna has some interesting things to say about the verbosity of Java. …there is little doubt that the Java language suffers from a poor character-to-instruction ratio. I call this property "expressiveness"—in other words, the number of keys you must … Continue reading →

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ExpandoMetaClass is now in session

dcbyron — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:39:03 +0000

In part 1 of his mini-sub-series on functional features of Groovy, Neal Ford explored functional features of Groovy. Now he continues with Functional thinking: Functional features in Groovy, Part 2, an exploration of metaprogramming. ExpandoMetaClass is now in session © 2011 … Continue reading →

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Million Steps Revisited

dcbyron — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:23:37 +0000

Following up on yesterday's news/leak/kerfuffle, Coda Hale offers Yammer's official position on Scala: http://eng.yammer.com/blog/2011/11/30/scala-at-yammer.html Million Steps Revisited © 2011 by David Byron, the author of Intermediate Java. This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. Using this feed on any other … Continue reading →

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Scala to Java in a million easy steps

dcbyron — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:38:04 +0000

From the Dose of Reality Department, here's a detailed explanation, apparently from Yammer, of why Yammer is dumping Scala and embracing Java. "Dumping" is too harsh. They'll still stay friends and keep in touch. Update: Turns out this is a … Continue reading →

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The Lion lies down with the Lambda

dcbyron — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:41:00 +0000

Neal Ford's series (One, Two, Three, Four, Five) continues to put the "fun" in functionalism. His part six, Functional thinking: Coupling and composition, Part 2, is a sequel to the subseries started in part five. Because they're composed, he presented these parts … Continue reading →

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Steve Jobs and Machine Beauty

dcbyron — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:07:19 +0000

With the Facebook Timeline just around the corner, and with Steve Jobs shuffling off this mortal coil, I'd like to consider what makes some technologies so different, so appealing. Last night I asked my art history students what was distinctive … Continue reading →

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