Illegal Argument #5
Episode #5 of our new java podcast Illegal Argument is has been posted focusing on language diversity and Microsoft's new Axum programming language, static vs dynamic templates and much more.
Comments (0) . Sunday, 17 May 2009
If Smalltalk is dead - why is it my most read post?
Somehow I topped 2gb of traffic on the blog this month so I went in search of my stats, unfortunately I found nothing which highlighted any untoward usage, but I did find that my most read blog post is for that dead language Smalltalk:
If Smalltalk
Comments (3) . Tuesday, 1 July 2008
A Little Head Trauma...: Returning None is Evil
Via Cedric's blog I came upon Marty Alchin's post on the perils of returning None or Null from your methods:
That is, of course, until you try to use your shiny, newly-retrieved object. Java then falls over itself and dies a horrifically painful d
Comments (2) . Thursday, 22 November 2007
XML WithStyle is no more...
It's been a while since I last looked at the Smalltalk based XML editor "XML WithStyle", at the time I was looking around for alternatives to XXE from XMLMind. When I last looked it was starting to look good, so it was a shock to see the following e
Comments (0) . Sunday, 19 November 2006
Java can be agile, but...
java -can- be agile - not as agile as smalltalk/ruby thou - but
the biggest detractor to agility is management imho.
Every day I hear people bagging on Java and Java developers for not being part of the dynamic langu
Comments (1) . Wednesday, 29 March 2006
The Power of Smalltalk IDE's
So it seems that every man and his dog is commenting on the power of Smalltalk IDEs in response to Cedric's interview with Vanguard Technologies.Now I'll admit that Cedric is partially wrong, and that all the Smalltalkers are right, Blaine Buxton wri
Comments (4) . Sunday, 11 December 2005
Dolphin Smalltalk 6 now available!
Congrats to the boys and girls at Object Arts for the release of Dolphin Smalltalk 6 - and special congratulations for a full swath of documentation.Now where was that purchase request form?
Comments (0) . Wednesday, 23 November 2005
Sick of the caught/uncaught exception arguments? Try caught/uncauch casting with RuntimeObject's for a change...
I've been toying with writing various versions of my "uber simple" rule engine in java, smalltalk, python, and ruby and the process left me firm in mind that my biggest pet hate with java is not so much thats its strictly typed, but strictly compiled
Comments (2) . Sunday, 14 August 2005
A Ruby rule engine
Yet another rule engine, first there was the java, smalltalk, and python versions, and after James Robertson mentioned I'd also done a Ruby version I thought I best actually do one...
I've been following alot of Ruby blog posts but as yet havn't a
Comments (1) . Saturday, 13 August 2005
A squeaky rule engine
Following on from the weekends simple java rule engine, I thought I'd give a squeak implementation a try. Following a similar API I have two classes: RuleManager and RuleSet, as initially defined as:
Object subclass: #RuleManager
instanceVari
Comments (1) . Tuesday, 9 August 2005