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JavaOne 2009 - A Retrospective

Walking out of the Moscone Center into the early evening air of San Francisco, it was hard to believe that JavaOne 2009 was over. Sure I'd spent four long days...

4 replies - 2191 views - 06/16/09 by Burk Hufnagel in Articles

We're Not "Resources"

Resources. It’s a dehumanizing term that is also flat-out wrong for nearly every profession I can think of.

8 replies - 5217 views - 07/15/08 by Mark Turansky in Articles

How many times are we going to "kill" Java?

Short answer: as many times as needed until polyglot programming really sinks in. Every day or so a new post on Java's demise appears, this has been happening...

17 replies - 3672 views - 06/04/08 by Andres Almiray in News

Reducing Coupling Through Unit Tests

After my previous post on the subject of coupling and cohesion, a lot of the feedback I've gotten has been from people who want examples of lowering coupling,...

2 replies - 2450 views - 05/23/08 by Vidar Hokstad in News

Code Complete Doesn't Mean You're Done

Joe Coder runs through his feature in the UI. It works. The doodad renders beautifully on the screen, and when he clicks the button, all the right things...

1 replies - 2963 views - 02/22/08 by Mark Turansky in News