http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/ en-us 2008-03-25T17:58:16-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2008/03/list_separators.html In his Disturbing Thoughts from a Developing Mind blog, fellow kiwi Mark Derricutt discusses a situation where new for loops don't provide enough power for a particular case. (And yes this blog has been sitting drafted but unpublished for... Programming brucechapman 2008-03-25T17:58:16-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2008/03/hot_threads.html New Desktop machine - netbeans really really really slow to install - other java apps running really really really slow - JMX to the rescue Tools brucechapman 2008-03-25T17:02:00-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2008/03/anouncement_no.html It is with pleasure that I announce the availability of a prototype for "No Closures". Programming brucechapman 2008-03-08T01:39:28-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2008/02/bgga_fud_bustin.html I want to refute the FUD that function types are nameless and have no javadoc. Programming brucechapman 2008-02-27T00:46:35-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2008/01/continuations_j.html No continuations yet. JSR 323 never made the first hurdle. JSR brucechapman 2008-01-24T13:45:58-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2008/01/a_jsr_for_conti.html If (newly announced) JSR 323 is serious, it looks like it might give us continuations. JSR brucechapman 2008-01-08T16:43:05-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2007/12/luddites_watch.html The closures controversy is attracting a number of commenters who seem to be opposed to any new java language features that are not completely understandable in less than one minute. While all this conservative energy is being directed at the closures proposals, there is possibly a larger threat to the values these folk hold to. Programming brucechapman 2007-12-17T13:54:11-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2007/11/closures_and_mu.html In javaposse 150 the guys were talking about something and veered off on a tangent talking about multiple return values and tuples and such like. Next up they talked about the closures JSR. That sparked a thought that maybe we could transform the multiple return values problem in order to solve it using closures. JSR brucechapman 2007-11-28T20:00:03-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/brucechapman/archive/2007/08/dear_santa_exce_1.html The start of a series requesting some goodies for later next year. This first looks at stack trace improvements. Community: OpenJDK brucechapman 2007-08-14T18:22:37-08:00