Getting Into (A) State With Java 8 Streams
Hot on the heels of my earlier foray into Java 8′s new shininess comes more playing. The Oracle documentation has this to say about state and streams: Note also that attempting to access mutable state...
View ArticleCreating ConfigSlurper Files Programatically
The question that arose on the Groovy mailing list a while back was: Is it possible to use the ConfigSlurper object itself to create config files? I’ve just gotten around to thinking about this. The...
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Thanks Angela!
At last night’s Brisbane Java User Group meeting, Oracle’s Angela Caicedo gave a nice session on “How to become an embedded developer in minutes” using the new Java ME 8. We got to play with a...
View ArticleCan’t We All Just Get Along?
At a recent meeting covering some really cool technology, I was interested to see the word ‘hate’ so often used. Person A ‘hated’ Netbeans Person B ‘hated’ Eclipse Person C ‘hated’ IntelliJ Person D...
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Misfiring Neurones
Last night, I let my memory drive my mouth. Always a baaad idea. My memory tends to be…how to put it…imprecise. Whereas my mouth faithfully does whatever it is told; there’s no auto-correct feature...
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Using Groovy’s ConfigSlurper To Support External Configurations With JEE7′s CDI
Thought I’d investigate how to use Groovy’s very nice ConfigSlurper with JEE7′s Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE Platform. Others have looked at using JNDI and Properties files for the...
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Building The Perfect Beast
Building object instances: soul-killing drudgery or trivial annoyance? Are you one of those who, when asked to build an object with a large set of properties, gnash their teeth and wail “there must be...
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Off With Its Head!
A little while ago I decided to relocate my Mac Mini server and run it ‘headless’: without a monitor. Imagine my surprise when I found that screen sharing performance in decapitated mode was...
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Livin’ On The Grid
Another dive into the wonderful world of web technologies. The requirement was simple: I needed an editable, pageable, grid backed by a REST-based resource. This is what we are aiming at: Being...
View ArticleNZOUG14
A big “thank you” to all who attended my presentations at this year’s New Zealand Oracle User Group meeting in Auckland. This year, I gave two talks and the slide decks I used are now available:...
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