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The Early History of Smalltalk: Philosophically, Smalltalk’s objects have much in common with the monads of Leibniz and the notions of 20th century physics and biology. — reading texts like that reminds me that at some point I need to delve into classic literature again.
InfoQ: Though scalability is a key factor, cloud computing has other advantages that makes it attractive for vendors that do not need to deliver highly scalable applications or services. — you know when something is way overhyped, when it starts to be presented as a solution to all of your problems, even the ones it [...]
Why is this particular one the ultimate? Two reasons:
It’s at the very core of the Java language, not some obscure piece of API.
It melted my brain when I hit it.
UPDATE 2: If you want to test yourself before reading the post take this test. Results are not saved (it’s a paid feature apparently and I [...]
The Java-Scala Interop — Daniel Spiewak sheds some light on the (quite shady) interoperability options between Java and Scala. A must-read for anyone planning to mix Scala and Java.
Last week I visited Stockholm to speak at the JFokus 2009. The event was quite spectacular, but for me the most interesting part occurred on the evening before the conference. I was sitting at the speaker’s dinner with Rickard Öberg, Kirk Pepperdine, Simon Ritter and a couple of others. For some reason or other I [...]