The practice of learning multiple languages has really become dogma in the modern developer community. Everyone knows that you should study different languages, different paradigms and various techniques for accomplishing the same thing. Why? The canonical answer is that it helps you grow into a better programmer in your primary language. After all, if you […]
I’ve been writing quite a bit recently about the differences between languages. Mostly I’ve just been whining about how annoying it is that everyone keeps searching for the “one language to rule them all”, the Aryan Language if you will. Over the course of some of these articles, I’ve made some rather loosely defined references […]
Too often these days I see Java developers new to the psuedo-science of UI development finding themselves completely lost before they even get started. There are a lot of misconceptions about the “best” and “easiest” way to create a professional UI in Java, and precious few resources which attempt to clear up the confusion.
In this […]
I just ran into an article on DZone that totally threw me off my chair in terms of content. It’s titled (ambitiously enough) “Functional Programming For the Rest of Us“. Basically the article attempts to explain many of the common FP techniques in terms that imperative programmers can understand. More importantly, it motivates these explanations […]
Nathan Hamblen (otherwise known as n8han from Coderspiel) has been putting a lot of work recently into his persistence interop framework, Databinder. Interestingly enough, some of this work has involved ActiveObjects. Nathan has taken some of the code I did for the wicket-activeobjects module, adapted it to Databinder and enhanced it 10 fold. As of […]