Java 7 introduced the Method Handles with the java.lang.invoke.MethodHandle and java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles classes.

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I have written before (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) on my biased perspective of the most significant developments in softwar

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Packt Publishing is offering $5 (USD) e-books when two or more are purchased through 3 January 2013. Their Stock Your Reader for Christmas page contains the details and I have included a snapshot of that here.

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One of the many features that makes Groovy an attractive scripting language is its built-in command-line argument support via CliBuilder.

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I have looked at some highly useful methods available in Groovy GDK's extensions to the Java JDK in blog posts such as Groovy JDK (GDK): File.deleteDir(), Groovy JDK (GDK): Text File to String,

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Earlier this month, I decided I wanted to write a post on not all optimization being premature optimization after hearing more than one developer use this mantra as an excuse for not making a better decision in the same week.

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I have blogged before on the utility of the Java Collections class and have specifically blogged on Using Collections Methods emptyList(), emptyMap(), and emptySet(). In this post, I look at the sometimes subtle but significant differences between using the relevant fields of the Collections class for accessing a

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Groovy has become my favorite scripting language and in this blog I look at some of Groovy's features that make it particularly attractive for presenting text-based reports. The post will show how custom text-based reports of data stored in the database can be easily presented with Groovy. I will highlight several attractive features of Groovy along the way.

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The Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group (RMOUG) has announced the presentations to be given at Training Days 2013.

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The 1994 book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software introduced many software developers to the concept of "a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems" that nearly every object-oriented software developer knows of today as "design patterns." Like most technical concepts (whether real or hype or somewhere in between), "design patterns" seem

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I wrote about the NetBeans hint "Overridable Method Call in Constructor" in the blog post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints. In this post, I look at why having an overridable method called from a parent class's constructor is not a good idea.

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One of the interesting tools I learned about at JavaOne 2012 is The Checker Framework.

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NetBeans 7.3, which is now available in Beta, is already probably best known for its Project Easel features.

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I am starting this particular blog post as I sit the the San Francisco International Airport waiting to board an airplane to head home after another satisfying but tiring JavaOne (2012) experience. It is difficult to write another blog post after having frantically written ~30 blog posts on the conference since the keynotes on last Sunday, but I want to record some of my observations and impressions of the conference while they're still relatively fresh.

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For my last session of JavaOne 2012, I elected to attend Emmanuel Bernard's and Stephane Epardaud's (both of RedHat) "Introduction to Ceylon" presentation held in Hilton Golden Gate 6/7/8.

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