JavaOne 2012: The Road to Lambda

One of the presentations I most eagerly anticipated for JavaOne 2012 was Brian Goetz‘s ‘The Road to Lambda.’ The taste…

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JavaOne 2012: How Do Non-Blocking Data Structures Work?

I was a little surprised when I looked at my schedule for today and noted that all of the sessions…

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JavaOne 2012: JavaOne Technical Keynote

Mark Reinhold started off the JavaOne 2012 Technical Keynote. He said this year’s edition would be a little different because…

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JavaOne 2012: Java Strategy Keynote and IBM Keynote

I had a rough start to JavaOne 2012 similar to that at JavaOne 2010. It took 70 minutes for the…

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Pure Java JavaFX 2.0 Menus

In recent posts on JavaFX, I have focused on using JavaFX 2.0’s new Java APIs without use of the JavaFX…

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Guava Files: Java File Management

Both Groovy and Java SE 7 provide improvements for file management in Java as I discussed in posts here, here,…

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Software Developers Hate Worthless Tasks

Most software developers that I know, especially the best ones, loathe worthless tasks. This is probably true of most people…

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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…

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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…

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