Title and summary	Date/time
1	Comparing the Evolution of Java and JavaScript Java: Java is the most used language in the known universe. It is also a very simple* language. Some people believe that there is some scope in enabling Java to accommodate more programming styles (e.g. functional programming via closures). Others bel...	17-Dec-2007
2	Emerging Java Technologies at QCon I've just finished opening the "Java Emerging Technologies" track at QCon and spent some time talking about Closures. This is a summary of what I said: You can look at closures as blocks of code that you can pass around for execution. You can look at ...	15-Mar-2007
3	Closures: Cheers, Library Issues and Solutions At last. But there is a problem... I think the addition of Closures are the biggest change yet made to Java. Closures change the way you think about programs - a step change rather than a simple evolution like Generics were. It's good to be able to d...	19-Aug-2006
4	7 Things I Learnt at TSS-Europe 1. I learnt that Retroweaver actually works. Retroweaver tweaks your JDK5 compiled classes to make them work on JDK1.4. The JavaPosse had some doubts about it a while ago, but James Strachan and Geert Bevin love it. I'm thinking that DWR v2 will proba...	26-Jun-2006