Title and summary	Date/time
1	App Engine and Java The world is now split into Python programmers, making funny 'Goo' noises over App Engine, and everyone else who are wondering when/if this will be available in their language or if they are going to have to change their spots. Of all the languages to...	09-Apr-2008
2	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
3	JVM Usage Stats Often when you open an XML config file in a DTD/Schema aware editor, and you're connected to the internet, the editor will reach out over the net to fetch the DTD/XSD, which gives webmasters some interesting usage stats. I've commented before on how y...	16-Jul-2007
4	Java 7 Idea: Extensible Strings In some ways it's a shame that java.lang.String is marked 'final' in Java. If it wasn't final, you could inherit from java.lang.String to create strings that had some extra features, or you could extend with a marker interface to declare that a String ...	10-Apr-2007
5	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
6	Alfresco 2.0 goes GPL I see that Alfresco has been re-licensed under the GPL, to a model that is quite similar to that of MySQL. I've come across a lot of fear of the GPL in the Java world over the years so until Java demonstrated that it was possible to get past that...	23-Feb-2007
7	Google hosting Java webapps for customers? This interested me. Why should Google be interested in making it easier to host Java programs? Normally hosting Java programs is a problem for small people but not for big people. You can host lots of your own war files easily, but hosting other peopl...	31-Aug-2006
8	Neat Spring Trick I don't think this trick is common knowledge because Google doesn't appear to have any reference to it, so maybe it's new to you. Void (with a capital V) is a valid type in Java (actually this is Java in general not just Spring). Pre Java 5 I'm not su...	23-Aug-2006
9	When Will Sun Open Source Java? When will Sun open source Java? I think there are some clues from Sun's history about how they open things up that can teach us when it will happen. Plenty of people have debated if open sourcing Java is a good idea. This isn't about that question; ev...	08-Dec-2005
10	Writing malicious code in Java The underhanded C contest is all about writing C code that looks innocent enough to get past a security review, but does something nasty on the side. It got me thinking about how to subvert things in Java. Somewhat predictably the C contest was domina...	28-Sep-2005