Tag Archives: Object Oriented Languages: Java, C#, Ruby

Last night, I presented at Groovy.MN on the Grails Spring Bean Builder, which is actually independent of the larger Grails project. It’s a nifty way to build Spring ApplicationContext using the Groovy Builder pattern instead of XML. I’m a big fan of Spring, because the reality of most applications is that they have a lot [...]

I’m working on a post about Ruby on Rails and its current hip-to-hate condition spawned by Zed Shaw’s flaming rejection of Rails. I couldn’t wait to post this little tidbit, though: So, the Ruby community is all excited because of this post, and the following graph showing the incredible growth of Ruby jobs versus Java: [...]

If you’re dealing with concurrency problems in Java (and who isn’t?), check out JConch. I just released the 0.2 version, and there’s some useful ready-for-prime-time stuff in there already. Still need to get the pipeline stuff pulled together, but I’ve got a lot of confidence in the CacheMap and the LogEq locks (pronounced “lodge-ECK locks” [...]

If you’re still on Java (like me), and you’ve got some enumerations and/or bit flags kicking around (like me), then you really want to know about EnumSet. I just found out about them, and I thought I’d share.

(This is a stream-of-consciousness blog post: I’m just going to spew whatever comes into my head. If you haven’t taken a look at it before, see JConch on GoogleCode to get an idea what I’m talking about. I’m on SVN revision 77 at the moment.)