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Tips for academics who develop software

Academics and practitioners, having rather different goals in life, tend to approach software development in quite different ways. No doubt there are many things each side of the fence can learn from the other, but I think academics in particular could often benefit quite a lot by adopting some of the practices used in industrial […]

Posted 23 February 2010 † johan § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Where is Java going?

Today, Java is one of the most popular programming languages. Introduced in 1995, it rests on a tripod of the language itself, its libraries, and the JVM. In the TIOBE programming language league charts, it has been at the top for as long as the measurements have been made (since 2002), overtaken by C only […]

Posted 22 November 2009 † johan § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

An unusual Java construct

I now break the longstanding tradition of not posting code on this blog. I just wanted to share what I believe to be a somewhat unusual pattern in Java: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 public IMethod findMethod(String name, String[] types) […]

Posted 29 July 2009 † johan § Software development ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,