Nov 22, 2009
Test-Driven Development, or TDD, is often quoted as an essential Agile best practice, and so it is. It works wonders on green-fields projects and new code bases where you can start afresh and ensure that all your code is both easily testable and well tested. But what about legacy code? (By legacy code, I mean any code that does not have a comprehensive set of automated tests, so you might be...
Architecting a system need a wide knowledge of technologies, COTS, projects, standards....
My latest example of an API that would benefit from support by a RDF
store was the “Observation
API” and focused on modeling a set of observations made by
some subjects and related to some places (I'm keeping birds and
birdwatchers in mind, but it's only a special case):
I recall you that a typical example of use is:
ObservationManager
observationManager =
ObservationManager.Locator....
My last post was about introduction of continuation is the Java VM,
This one is about how to use continuation to easily implement service on top of
a non blocking IO server.
Highlights of Synthetica's BlackEye theme.
Nov 20, 2009
This past week's poll suggests that Java User Groups have a substantial impact and play an important organizational role within the Java developer community...
The subject of the next JFXstudio Challenge competition is a Holiday. What are you going to do on this holiday? How about having a trip along the river?
Nov 19, 2009
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1:00-1:45 pm
Show Me the Money!
by Kristen Knight, Kynetx VP Product Management
Monetizing cross-site, context-sensitive apps, revenue models, VAR &
Implementor business opportunities.
Wal-Mart
- generated their own warehousing and distribution infrastructure
rather than depending on manufacturers or 3rd...
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9:00-9:45 am
User-Centric Identity in the Client-Side Revolution
Kim Cameron
Microsoft Chief Architect of Identity, Distinguished Engineer
Identity
- the stuff of poets and philosophers
Digital Identity
- Recognize us in different contexts
- foundation for personalization
- need to traverse silos
- need for...
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1:00-1:45 PM
Client-Side Endpoints and Context Automation
by Dave McNamee, Kynetx VP Client Engagement/VAR Services
dxm@kynetx.com
801-376-5043
Endpoint: thing on client that ties application to user.
Learn
- endpoints make KNS apps work on client
- many options
- endpoint selection
controller (e.g., card selector...
my notes from day 1 morning
Lukas Stadler has push a patch into Da Vinci VM patch queue that enable coroutine and fiber support in the VM
... what about JSR 310 (Date & Time API)? It was excluded since it was not stable enough for the deadline, but maybe now it could make for it?
Entry posted to my new blog.
Conferences typically include some surprise announcements, usually by corporate sponsors of the conference. But a great many developers were astonished by the unexpected news from DEVOXX '09 that JDK 7 will include closures...
Here is a raw recording of the JUG BOF at DEVOXX with James Recording. Detailed list of topics discussed by timeline of the MP3 recording. MP3 is 19MB to download and is 40+ min long.
It seems that at Devoxx it has been announced that closures will make their way in Java 7, after all.I don't want to discuss whether it's a good or a bad thing (you know I think it's bad I suspend any judgment as I understand that the proposal is neither BGGA nor CICE, but something new). I'm only appalled that after a few weeks that the final word of Java 7 had been said with Project Coin (the...
Nov 18, 2009
Today, a tantalizing announcement by Mark Reinhold about closures in Java 7 has made its way through the twittersphere. On the same day, Neal Gafter updated his closures proposal. Here are some use cases and my unbiased opinion on this proposal. No lambdas have been harmed in the writing of this blog article.
Today's java.net home page features two Java Today items and one java.net blog that cover different aspects of Java EE...
I am attending the Kynetx
Impact Conference. I will be posting my raw notes. Hope you find
them useful.
