Posts Tagged ‘ Java ’

Kotlin and Ceylon to open their doors by the end of the year

The residents of Java are waiting. Waiting for the day when another city will rise to supremacy in JVMland. These days they are looking north towards the functional territories and watch with interest as the new cities Kotlin and Ceylon are being built. Many Java inhabitants are tired of the city they live in. Not just since [ READ MORE ]

The Bowling Game Kata in Scala

Here is the end result of my implementation of the Bowling Game Kata in Scala. You can see all steps including the tests on CodersDojo.org. Comparing this piece of code with the Java implementation from Uncle Bob (who, no doubt, knows how to write clean Java code) I would conclude that it is more expressive [ READ MORE ]

How to make your Scala code less imperative and more functional

When first starting out with Scala after programming in Java for many years chances are you are still writing Java code just in Scala syntax. Meaning you are not leveraging all the functional goodness that is Scala. Functional code is usually more concise and can be more expressive than imperative code, because functional language constructs [ READ MORE ]

Who will be Java’s successor?

ThoughtWorks’ technology radar suggested to start thinking about ‘Java end of life‘ in its January 2010 issue. In following issues of the same document they list several languages that strive to be Java’s successor on the JVM. In order to lure the Java community into their net all these languages promise to run on the [ READ MORE ]

Automatic hashcode method generation

When reading the book Implementation Patterns on the bus to work one morning I came across a section that talks about implementing the equals and hashcode methods in Java. I don’t know how often I have read this rule by now: “If you implement equals you also have to implement hashcode“. Otherwise you get into [ READ MORE ]

Java Build Server

Update [15.05.2010]: I finally had a chance to try out SecureCI, which is pretty much exactly what I described in this post. The guys from Coveros did a great job, so I suggest after reading this post you head over to their website, download SecureCI and give it a go. Thanks John for pointing this [ READ MORE ]

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