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Monthly Archives: February 2007

Another solution to the Java equals/compareTo Problem (More or Less)

I was talking to some of the people at my new contract here, and I realized I never posted this [...]
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I’m Growing to Hate Associations

We’ve had two major snowfalls this year. And in both cases, our association left us snowed into the house [...]
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Well, TFP 2007 is Out

The paper that BHurt and I co-authored for TFP 2007 wasn’t accepted. There was a lot of positive feedback [...]
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Why Java Wants Closures

Raganwald’s Excellent Post on Closures It’s also a nice munition for those of you out there trying to convert Java developers [...]
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Another Ruby-on-Rails Gripe: “acts_as_list”

Okay, working on my web app using Ruby on Rails, and I just encountered a new gripe. Now, it [...]
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