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Monday, June 15th, 2009
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Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
Editor: We have a guest appearance from a CDO of a Fortune 500 company (actually not Fortune 500, but yes, a development manager for 200 devs). The twist? He has a compiler installed and apparently an editor too.
The other day I was playing around with a tool for memory analysis and wrote a small snippet [...]
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
This post is a follow up to the Ultimate Java Puzzler. I was going to name it “The Most Penultimate Java Puzzler Ever to Exist”, but it just doesn’t have the same ring to it anymore :)
The previous post was about the weird relation between default visibility and method overriding, which in the [...]
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
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 [...]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
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 [...]
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