Tag Archives: java

Once More, This Time With Clojure

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Joey Gibson

If you happened to read my post from the other day entitled My New “Top Artists Last 7 Days” Widget, you know that I went through three iterations of getting it going. The final solution, written in Ruby worked well. Until … Continue reading →

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JUnitLaunchFixer 1.0.4 Released

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Joey Gibson

I’ve just released a new version of my Eclipse plugin called JUnitLaunchFixer. If you’ve never heard of it, it lets you set the default heap size for new debug launchers in Eclipse. You can read more about it in the … Continue reading →

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99 Scala Problems #28 – I Like My Solution Better

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been working through this list of 99 Scala Problems, which is modeled after this list of 99 Prolog Problems. As I’ve been going through them, I have been comparing my solutions to those provided (obviously). Sometimes, my solution is … Continue reading →

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Procedural vs. Functional

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Joey Gibson

With the rise of Scala and Clojure, there’s been a lot of talk lately about procedural vs. functional styles of coding. Most developers are accustomed to procedural coding, and functional can be hard to get a handle on. I was … Continue reading →

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Slides From My Presentation on Operator Overloading In Scala

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Joey Gibson

Last night I spoke at the Atlanta Scala Enthusiats meeting about operator overloading and a little on implicit conversions. I think the talk went well as I got lots of really good questions from the audience, and they laughed at … Continue reading →

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I’m Liking Scala’s XML Literals

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joey Gibson

How many times have you written a class that you needed to save and restore to/from XML? How did you do it? There are libraries that will do this for you, but I don’t know if any of them have … Continue reading →

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Bogus Search Results From Sys-Con

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Joey Gibson

Updated! Be sure to scroll down for the latest! I’m writing a blog post dealing with Scala’s XML literal syntax and how to use it for object de/serialization and so I wanted to get a list of existing Java XML … Continue reading →

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Scala’s Nice Regex Class

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Joey Gibson

I’m a big fan of regular expressions, because they let you parse text in very concise, and sometimes complicated, ways. Though I agree with jwz about regular expressions in lots of cases, I still use them frequently. Perl was the … Continue reading →

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Announcing JUnitLaunchFixer Eclipse Plugin

Posted on September 21, 2009 by Joey Gibson

My friend Chris and I both work for the same company. Our product has around 900 JUnit tests, and for some of them, the default heap size that Eclipse runs JUnit tests with has become too small. You can change … Continue reading →

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Scala Gets Operator Overloading Right

Posted on May 30, 2009 by Joey Gibson

02/20/2010 Update: I took this blog post and turned it into a presentation to the Atlanta Scala User Group, which I gave in January 2010. The slides from that presentation are here. 05/31/2009 Update: As Mads Andersen pointed out, in … Continue reading →

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Objective-C 2.0 Properties Are Needlessly Verbose

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been working in Objective-C for a little while now; not quite two years, off and on. I was really excited when Apple announced that Objective-C 2.0 was going to have generated properties, but the syntax they gave us leaves … Continue reading →

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Grails Podcast Mentions My Closure Post

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Like other bloggers with an ego, I have Google Alerts set up to let me know when someone mentions me or my blog anywhere that Google knows about. I got an alert yesterday letting me know that I’d been mentioned … Continue reading →

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Dear Apple: Some Java Love, Please?

Posted on October 24, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I love your machines. Truly, I do. Back in 1988 I bought a toaster-model Mac SE, with one megabyte of RAM, and I loved it. It only had a nine inch, black-and-white screen, and I loved it. For various reasons, … Continue reading →

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Groovy Sql Closure Examples

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Joey Gibson

My post about closures last week generated quite a bit of traffic and comments, both positive and negative. I decided to followup on that post with a few examples of how to add a method that I believe is missing from Groovy’s … Continue reading →

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Why I Love Closures

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I’ve been a big fan of closures for years. I was first introduced to them in Smalltalk, where they were just called blocks. Ruby has them and also calls them blocks. Java does not have them, though there are proposals … Continue reading →

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When Does an HQL Typo *Not* Cause A Parse Error?

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I found something interesting at work yesterday. One of our developers mentioned that when he called a certain method with various sets of parameters, he wasn’t getting back what he expected to get back, based on what he knew was … Continue reading →

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I’m Digging Java Again

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Joey Gibson

I first started doing Java back in 1995. That’s quite a long time ago. Once I got going, I wrote Java code every single day, for thirteen years. I co-authored a Java book, gave talks on Java and was an … Continue reading →

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Strange Obi-Wan Error

Posted on January 4, 2006 by Joey Gibson

I was doing some JDBC today and I forgot that column indexes are 1-based instead of 0-based. It took me a while to figure out what was wrong since the exception message I kept getting was java.sql.SQLException: Column Index out … Continue reading →

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Can Someone Help With These Eclipse Files?

Posted on June 20, 2004 by Joey Gibson

Is anyone familar with the format of the files in .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.projects in the workspace of Eclipse 3.0? I have an Ant task that uses the .classpath file of a project, along with the JDT preferences to build an Ant classpath … Continue reading →

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Free Eclipse Classpath Ant Task

Posted on June 15, 2004 by Joey Gibson

This software is no longer supported! I have neither used nor updated this software since I originally posted it, back in 2004. You are welcome to both the binary and source versions, but I no longer do anything with it … Continue reading →

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