Hi Bob- Thank you for moderating the planning meeting and typing up the results. I've now read the whole book. I had some misconceptions about its nature. I...
The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our exploration of "Beautiful Code" by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson for our current...
In anticipation for tomorrow's study group session... Subversion Version Control: Using The Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects ...
There's another free Subversion book at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/. The chapter is not really about Subversion, but a little subversion knowledge doesn't...
Preach it, brother! There's an even better rant about java in the Steve Yegge "Kingdom of Nouns" article the Spolsky links to in his MapReduce piece. ...
Excellent link. Here's some others I've been chewing through. The demo for next Tuesday will use Hadoop (Google's MapReduce implementation is not available). ...
... Pre-announcing the Fork-Join package for Java 7. Geoffrey Wiseman blogs about it here: http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/07/concurrency-java-se-7 Preliminary...
I wonder why there's such a big fuss about closures now (well, the past 2 years). Closures existed long before Java did, and yet Java programmers have been...
To be honest with you Joe, I didn't know there was a "closure debate" in Java until today when I stumbled upon the Goetz article. Further, I agree that Java ...
In all this talk of closures for Java, I have to wonder if you wouldn't be better off selecting a different language, like ML or Haskell. Fundamentally, when...
I am beginning to consider development beyond Java, but for the advantages of perhaps a more expressive syntax (closures, type inference, etc) I am not yet ...
I can't believe they still broke out overloaded instances of the classes for all of the numeric data types. It more than doubles the size of the API, which...
jason marshall
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Oct 18, 2007 3:20 pm
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Yikes, that's a horrible API. Are they trying to avoid autoboxing (wrapping scalars with objects)? What are the alternatives? Fixes? A dynamic language, which...
I don't think there needs to be a fix, really. If autoboxing is costing you more than linear processing of the numbers, then the bookeeping of the forkjoin...
jason marshall
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Oct 18, 2007 10:37 pm
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Interesting comments. I trust you'll post them to concurrency-interest where you're very likely to receive a thorough explanation? The API is not yet set in...
PS - I think the following paragraphs from the concurrency-interest archives address your concerns. Also notice that ParallelArray is designed to handle...
... doubles. However, unlike the Integer and Long MIN_VALUE constants, Double.MIN_VALUEis a positive number, so - Double.MAX_VALUE is the proper value to use....
And LtU has turned more into a general programming languages list these days anyway. I wish people would stop trying to pretend that programming has nothing to...
jason marshall
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Oct 19, 2007 5:15 pm
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#1 was posted Aug 31 in message titled RecursiveAction questions. #2 was posted Aug 28 in message titled forkjoin.ParallelArray and friends....
The WingDings Study Group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wingding) continues our exploration of "Beautiful Code" by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson. The next...
For another take on where this sort of scatter/gather application is interesting, and some of the issues you have to deal with during the gather (or 'reduce')...
jason marshall
jdmarshall@...
Oct 23, 2007 4:03 pm
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I haven't yet heard from Greg about his presentation Chapter 6: Framework for Integrated Test: Beauty through Fragility, by Michael Feathers scheduled for our...
Hi Bob, I responded to you last Friday to your <robertkuhar@...> address saying I could do it. Did that not get through? Perhaps it got spam filtered? ...
Greg, Thanks for the reply. I looked in the spam folder and sure enough, there you were, right between "Need a bigger pencil ?" and "GOOD NEWS YOU HAVE WON...
Oops. I meant Tuesday, November 13 for the next WingDings meeting. I better just push back from the keyboard and get some sleep or something. Things have ...
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