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Questions for Sun over JavaFX

Sun has released a JavaFX preview. Having played around with it, here are my questions.

15 replies - 5551 views - 08/21/08 by Chui Tey in Articles

Quality Problems Cost Software Companies Up to $22 Million Annually

A new white paper by International Data Corporation (IDC), found existing software quality approaches at most companies are inadequate to address the internal...

7 replies - 2228 views - 08/21/08 by Martin steve in News

Being a Better Programmer #3: Ahab and the White Whale Snippet

As developers, we solve problems for a living. We spend our hours at work fixing things, testing things, troubleshooting things. It gives one a great sense of...

3 replies - 2691 views - 08/20/08 by CollinCusce in Articles

My Ideas for Java Closures

According to Neal Gafter, the story for closures it still wide open. As someone who writes a lot of code using closure-like mechanisms ... in the form of lots...

3 replies - 1905 views - 08/19/08 by Howard Lewis Ship in Articles

The Never-Ending Debate of Specialist v. Generalist

Another DZone newsletter crosses my Inbox, and again I feel compelled to comment. Not so much in the uber-aggressive style of my previous attempt, since I find...

6 replies - 3389 views - 08/14/08 by Ted Neward in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 5): Sliding sand consensus.

In my time here on the oil mine I have had a lot of time to think and observe and one thing is for certain, perspective on something makes a big difference in...

0 replies - 2192 views - 08/14/08 by AnneBotha in Articles

Do You Anthropomorphize When Coding?

I recently wrote, in this blog about state management, threading and API design, the following (talking about a refactored SwingWorker with the state...

9 replies - 4133 views - 08/10/08 by Tim Boudreau in Articles

If I Could Recommend Five Books For Java Developers....

There are many books that are essential for your bookshelf if you're a Java developer. But if I had space for just five books, which ones would I recommend?...

11 replies - 25722 views - 08/08/08 by James Sugrue in Articles

No, Your Code Is Not So Great That It Doesn’t Need Comments

Code-commenting is so basic and so universal that every programmer, regardless of the language that they practise, thinks that they know all there is to know...

14 replies - 3654 views - 08/07/08 by Dan Dyer in Articles

The Undercover Adventure (Part 4): Rabbits chasing running carrots.

I sighed once more as I read my email and with furrowed brow considered the end result of his email. It would not have proven to be so frustrating had this...

1 replies - 2425 views - 08/04/08 by AnneBotha in Articles