Albert Einstein once contemplated

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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I recently had the privilege of talking with Patrick Curran for JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider regarding the JCP or Java Community Process. In this hip podcast, Patrick gives an overview of the structure and inner workings of the process and describes where the JCP has historically fallen apart.

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I had the pleasure before the official release of Grails 1.1 to chat with Grails founder and ultimate hip cat Graeme Rocher for JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider.

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The easyb team is proud to have won the 19th annual Jolt award!

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The easyb team is proud to announce version 0.9.5 is now live. It has been a long time coming and this version is jam-packed with new features, baby!

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A disconnect between the stakeholders who define requirements and the developers who implement them has long plagued software development, baby. In recent years, frameworks based on dynamic languages (like Groovy and Ruby) and domain-specific languages have come a long way in bridging this stakeholder-developer gap by making code read more like normal language.

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While Groovy can found existing in one jar file, it is a large platform with a plethora of features and tricks.

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Leonardo da Vinci once mused:

simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

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My good friend Scott Davis (author of The Pragmatic Programmers’ Groovy Recipes

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Not long ago, I had the delight of talking with Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems about his thoughts regarding Java web development for JavaWorld’s Java Technology Insider.

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Shortly after SpringSource’s November 2008 acquisition of G2One, I had the pleasure of chatting with both Rod Johnson and Graeme Rocher– both gents are always interesting to chat with as they each possess a deep understanding of technology and its applicability with business.

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Because it’s my bag, I recently found myself writing some code that read various .csv files containing data related to similar concepts (why that data is in various .csv files isn’t germane to the story, baby, so just keep reading); that is, each file contained slightly different data but all the data was inter-related. Accordingly, what I did with the data once I read it was both similar and different. For example, regardless of file, first, I had to see if a particular item (in a row) existed elsewhere (i.e.

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When high-tech history is inscribed for the ages, 2008 may be remembered as the year Java tipped from a language-centric to a platform-centric technology.

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Fewer lines of code can result in a quicker time to market with fewer defects. But reuse is important not only because it means writing less code, but also because it means leveraging what you could call the “wisdom of crowds.” Popular open source frameworks and tools — such as Hibernate, Spring, and JUnit — are being used by a multitude of people across the globe in varying applications.

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