[The Java Posse] Re: In defense of The Google

2009-07-01 Thread Jim Blackler
Status Quo the band contribute very little to open source. Francis Rossi did a handful of Eclipse patches, that's it. 2009/7/1 Christian Catchpole : > > nothing... if you base your exceptions on the band, they will be > pretty high. > > On Jul 1, 7:13 pm, Michael Neale wrote: >> And what is wron

[The Java Posse] Re: Ho Ho Ho

2009-01-13 Thread Jim Blackler
Yes, and I see absolutely no need to 'sell' Java to end users, who couldn't give a flying stuff about the power of Java or anything else that should be behind the scenes. They just want their chosen application to start, and ASAP. Sell it to *developers* by all means. Also, "Powered by _" whe

[The Java Posse] Re: Web Services

2008-12-02 Thread Jim Blackler
REST or SOAP? 2008/12/2 Dan Shaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi everybody, > > I'm a pretty seasoned Java server side developer and have the need now > to create some web services. > > Ideally what I'm looking for is thin utility library to help me do > this - not a whole framework which I would hav

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-02 Thread Jim Blackler
2008/11/2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... some stuff about C# .. I agree with all that. Having gone from C# to Java full time about six months ago, I also miss the way C# gives you a choice between stack and heap storage for objects, and the lack of obligatory checked exceptions (

[The Java Posse] Re: A lenient compiler?

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Blackler
not from the perspective of producing class files for > bogus sources or guessing the intent of bogus source. > > Jim Blackler wrote: > > Consider a continuous build server that makes a large project, then > runs tests on the code. If one programmer makes a submission that > causes a

[The Java Posse] Re: A lenient compiler?

2008-10-24 Thread Jim Blackler
Consider a continuous build server that makes a large project, then runs tests on the code. If one programmer makes a submission that causes a compile error in a method, this breaks the build and the tests never even start. However many tests may never execute the broken method. Assuming the progr

[The Java Posse] A lenient compiler?

2008-10-23 Thread Jim Blackler
IntelliJ makes a great job of continuing to parse a source file (for preview warnings etc) despite errors in the file. In other words the whole file doesn't light up red when there's a syntax error early on. It appears as if it can't make sense of an expression it sets it to 'null' and soldiers on

[The Java Posse] Re: Yield return in Java

2008-10-15 Thread Jim Blackler
mented using byte code > modification to get the same functionality: > > http://code.google.com/p/infomancers-collections/ > > Mike. > > On Oct 16, 1:17 am, "Jim Blackler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Absolutely, the first option would be to return your own iter

[The Java Posse] Re: Yield return in Java

2008-10-15 Thread Jim Blackler
l, continuations is another thing we need to bring down >> ceremony and housekeeping in Java. I would think your impl stands a >> better chance at being adopted into Java than Aviad Ben Dov's Yielder, >> although I am not sure about the (performance?) drawbacks of either >> ov

[The Java Posse] Re: Yield return in Java

2008-10-13 Thread Jim Blackler
Can you interrupt the > calculating function? What happens if you throw away the iterator > without fully iterating it? Will the thread block forever or does > finalize clean it up? > > On Oct 13, 7:20 am, "Jim Blackler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello all >

[The Java Posse] Yield return in Java

2008-10-12 Thread Jim Blackler
Hello all I've just finished a little library and article about my efforts to emulate a form of C#'s yield return in Java. It uses a new thread and a SynchronousQueue object to enable any calculating function to return its output through a standard Java iterator. The post is here .. http://jimb

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Posse #201 - FindBugs plugin for IntelliJ IDEA

2008-09-04 Thread Jim Blackler
2008/9/4 Dick Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyway, if you have a bit of non-trivial code, and you have got it to > 0 warnings in IDEA, run findbugs on it. I would bet it will find more > problems and some of the findings will almost certainly be valuable. > I just did this on a small Swing app I'