Monthly Archives: April 2007

Venkat on Objects, Properties, and Constructors

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 15, 2007

I saw a great speech at No Fluff, Just Stuff by Venkat Subramaniam on Spring and Groovy. It’s an interesting technology, but what was really interesting to me was a brief exchange near the end. One person commented that they didn’t understand the general opposition to using constructor-based dependency injection. Venkat initially gave the standard [...]

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MinneBar

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 13, 2007

Well, it looks like I’m going to be doing two sessions at MinneBar: one on using Fit (a Java framework) to generate executable documentation (and how this makes life nice for business-types that have to talk to Java developers), and one as a brainstorming session on Functional Languages and Agile Development (basically so I can [...]

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Kettlebells

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 11, 2007

I’ve been getting into Kettlebell training, which is a lot of fun. Think of doing a work-out based around a cannonball with a handle, where you take the cannonball and swing it around, flip it in the air, and generally do all kinds of fun stuff with it. The workouts I have been doing also [...]

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Death to Arrays!

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 10, 2007

Okay, I’m making a new Best Practice Declaration. As of Java5, you should no longer use arrays. The Arrays#asList gives you all the niceties of the inline array constructor while still allowing you to leverage an API which doesn’t suck (doubly so when you consider the Commons Collections API).

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Java Goes Scripting

By Robert Fischer | Published: April 9, 2007

There’s a lot of buzz about Groovy right now, which makes Java look like Ruby (including a shameless Rails knockoff). One guy at work is really excited about Groovy, and has incorporated it into his open source project. From what little I’ve seen from it, it’s got all the same advantages and disadvantages as your [...]

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