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JavaOne 2012: What’s New in Groovy 2.0
Guillaume Laforge’s (SpringSource/VMware/@glaforge) ‘What’s New in Groovy 2.0′ presentation was in the same conference room (Hilton Golden Gate 6/7/8) as Martin ...
JavaOne 2012: Building Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Java
I returned to Parc 55 (Mission conference room) to see Max Katz‘s (Exadel Developer Relations) ‘Building Mobile Apps with HTML5 and Java’ Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) ...
JavaOne 2012: A Walk Through of Groovy’s AST Transformations
I made the very short walk from Hilton Plaza A/B back to Hilton Golden Gate 3/4/5 to see the presentation ‘Walk through Groovy’s AST Transformations.’ Groovy‘s ...
JavaOne 2012: The Road to Lambda
One of the presentations I most eagerly anticipated for JavaOne 2012 was Brian Goetz‘s ‘The Road to Lambda.’ The taste of Lambda at last night’s Technical Keynote ...
JavaOne 2012: How Do Non-Blocking Data Structures Work?
I was a little surprised when I looked at my schedule for today and noted that all of the sessions I have currently planned to see today are in the Hilton. This became a little less ...
JavaOne 2012: JavaOne Technical Keynote
Mark Reinhold started off the JavaOne 2012 Technical Keynote. He said this year’s edition would be a little different because it would use largely the same example to illustrate ...
JavaOne 2012: Java Strategy Keynote and IBM Keynote
I had a rough start to JavaOne 2012 similar to that at JavaOne 2010. It took 70 minutes for the people handling the check-in to provide me with a JavaOne badge due to ‘computer ...
Pure Java JavaFX 2.0 Menus
In recent posts on JavaFX, I have focused on using JavaFX 2.0′s new Java APIs without use of the JavaFX 1.x’s JavaFXScript and without use of JavaFX 2.0′s new FXML. ...
Guava Files: Java File Management
Both Groovy and Java SE 7 provide improvements for file management in Java as I discussed in posts here, here, here, and here. However, when a particular Java application is not able ...
Software Developers Hate Worthless Tasks
Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people who strive to do what they do to the best of their ability, ...
