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JavaOne 2012: Difficult Decisions
It was recently announced that the JavaOne 2012 Schedule Builder is now available. I have signed up for my first cut at sessions that I will attend, but found myself experiencing the ...
Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond
The presentation “Project Lambda: To Multicore and Beyond” (Session 27400 and not to be confused with Brian Goetz’s presentation of the same name) was given in the ...
Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by Command Line
I looked at a simple JavaFX version of the ubiquitous Hello World example from a NetBeans 7.1 beta perspective in the blog post Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans 7.1 beta. ...
Project Jigsaw Booted from Java 8?
In his post Project Jigsaw: Late for the train, Mark Reinhold’s proposes ‘to defer Project Jigsaw to the next release, Java 9.’ He explains the reasoning for this: ‘some ...
The Software Developer’s Pensieve
Fictional stories (especially science fiction) are full of gadgets and other items that I wish were available to me today. One of the fictional items I would most like to have is the ...
Software Architects Need Not Apply
I saw an online job posting several years ago that listed a set of desired software development and programming skills and concluded with the statement, “Architects Need Not ...
Moving Beyond Core Hamcrest in JUnit
In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest I introduced use of Hamcrest with JUnit. I then looked at JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support. In this ...
JUnit’s Built-in Hamcrest Core Matcher Support
In the post Improving On assertEquals with JUnit and Hamcrest, I briefly discussed Hamcrest “core” matchers being “baked in” with modern versions of JUnit. In ...
NetBeans 7.2 Introduces TestNG
One of the advantages of code generation is the ability to see how a specific language feature or framework is used. As I discussed in the post NetBeans 7.2 beta: Faster and More Helpful, ...
NetBeans 7.2 beta: Faster and More Helpful
There has been significant excitement about the beta release of NetBeans 7.2. In this post, I look briefly at what makes this release so exciting (including better performance, providing ...
