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These are the things I think as I sit here in my resort hotel on the edge of the Dead
Sea in Israel after the JavaEdge
2009 conference on Thursday:

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These are the things I think as I sit here in my resort hotel on the edge of the Dead
Sea in Israel after the JavaEdge
2009 conference on Thursday:

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These are the things I think as I sit here in my resort hotel on the edge of the Dead
Sea in Israel after the JavaEdge
2009 conference on Thursday:

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Paul asked me to review this, his first book, and my comment to him was that he had
a pretty high bar to match; being of the same "series" as Release It!,
Mike Nygard's take on building software ready for production (and, in my repeatedly
stated opinion, the most important-to-read book of the decade), Debug It! had
some pretty impressive shoes to fill. Paul's comment was pretty predictable: "Thanks
for keeping the pressure to a minimum."

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Paul asked me to review this, his first book, and my comment to him was that he had
a pretty high bar to match; being of the same "series" as Release It!,
Mike Nygard's take on building software ready for production (and, in my repeatedly
stated opinion, the most important-to-read book of the decade), Debug It! had
some pretty impressive shoes to fill. Paul's comment was pretty predictable: "Thanks
for keeping the pressure to a minimum."

Read more ...

Paul asked me to review this, his first book, and my comment to him was that he had
a pretty high bar to match; being of the same "series" as Release It!,
Mike Nygard's take on building software ready for production (and, in my repeatedly
stated opinion, the most important-to-read book of the decade), Debug It! had
some pretty impressive shoes to fill. Paul's comment was pretty predictable: "Thanks
for keeping the pressure to a minimum."

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Those of you who've seen me speak on Java 7 at various conferences have heard me lament
(in a small way) the fact that Sun decided last year (Dec 2008) to forgo the idea
of including closures in the Java language. Imagine my surprise, then, to check my
Twitter feed and discover that, to everyone's surprise, closures are
back in as a consideration for the Java7 release.

Several thoughts come to mind:

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Those of you who've seen me speak on Java 7 at various conferences have heard me lament
(in a small way) the fact that Sun decided last year (Dec 2008) to forgo the idea
of including closures in the Java language. Imagine my surprise, then, to check my
Twitter feed and discover that, to everyone's surprise, closures are
back in as a consideration for the Java7 release.

Several thoughts come to mind:

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Those of you who've seen me speak on Java 7 at various conferences have heard me lament
(in a small way) the fact that Sun decided last year (Dec 2008) to forgo the idea
of including closures in the Java language. Imagine my surprise, then, to check my
Twitter feed and discover that, to everyone's surprise, closures are
back in as a consideration for the Java7 release.

Several thoughts come to mind:

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Phil Haack wrote a
thoughtful, insightful and absolutely correct response to my
earlier blog post. But he's still missing the point.

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Phil Haack wrote a
thoughtful, insightful and absolutely correct response to my
earlier blog post. But he's still missing the point.

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Phil Haack wrote a
thoughtful, insightful and absolutely correct response to my
earlier blog post. But he's still missing the point.

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The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit
this week in Redmond. I passed the quote out to the Twitter masses, along with my
+1, and predictably, the comments started coming in shortly thereafter. Rather than
limit the thoughts to the 120 or so characters that Twitter limits us to, I thought
this subject deserved some greater expansion.

But before I do, let me try (badly) to paraphrase the lightning talk that Billy gave
here, which sets context for the discussion:

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The above quote was tossed off by Billy Hollis at the patterns&practices Summit
this week in Redmond. I passed the quote out to the Twitter masses, along with my
+1, and predictably, the comments started coming in shortly thereafter. Rather than
limit the thoughts to the 120 or so characters that Twitter limits us to, I thought
this subject deserved some greater expansion.

But before I do, let me try (badly) to paraphrase the lightning talk that Billy gave
here, which sets context for the discussion:

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