There’s a couple of posts going around about another post comparing Ta-Da with Bla-Bla Look, folks, this isn’t comparing the two languages: this is comparing different coding styles, that strangely enough value different things!
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This is a cautionary tale of US-only JREs and non-US countries, such as The Lucky Country I call home.
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Nick over at the System Mobile Web Log was having trouble with Log4J and his unit tests. Seems that he was getting the log4j.properties file from XDoclet, instead of the one he wanted.
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I just discovered that Checkstyle doesn’t (yet) support Java 1.5. I found myself shocked by this for some reason; the Checkstyle project is such an active and evolving one that I just didn’t think they wouldn’t have put in some 1.5 support yet.
Continue reading “Don’t you hate it when your expectations crash?”
Cedric takes exception to my earlier post another who didn’t get what I was saying. I think that says a lot for my ability to explain ideas, uh?
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Looking back over the notes from the Dev Day I took, I was reminded of a feature that I would have liked to have seen in 1.5: named parameters.
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In response to Chris Justus again, here’s how I’d comment his example.
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I’ve cleared up a question I didn’t get answered at the Developer Day; the syntax for using annotations.
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As I said earlier, I went to the Sun Developer Day in Sydney today. Overall, well worth the price of admission. Heck, I’d have paid double. 😉
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I saw a post on Dion Almaer’s blog on named parameters, and I thought I’d add my 2 cents worth.
Continue reading “Named parameters (aka Let’s Join A Bandwagon)”
Software is too expensive to build cheaply.... 