http://other-languages.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for other languages en Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:09:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716241 unknown@DZone.com Because it’s a completely different approach from the OO programming languages (even from the pure functional ones like Lisp or Haskell), it’s concurrent, stateless, has been battle tested in real large-scale industrial products, has an active web app centric community and finally, because it fits perfectly with our view of a light back-end delivery service engine. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:09:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2716241opinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2715827 unknown@DZone.com The Java programming language is one of the most taught, learned, written about, and programmed in programming languages today. Beginning its life in 1995, it rode in on the Object-Oriented Programming hype-wave of the nineties. Although some might argue that Java's primary means of abstraction is the class---and therefore Java is primarily object-oriented, the huge number of available Java libraries indicates otherwise. In this essay, I will argue that Java's most powerful means of abstraction is the library. I will also explore whether a new term---namely "Library-Oriented Programming"---is warranted to describe programming using libraries as the main abstraction. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:55:12 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2715827javaopinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2714007 unknown@DZone.com This blog post shows a simple Powershell command that searches a log file for errors and warnings and adds the matched lines to either to the errors.txt file or to the warnings.txt files. It takes advantage of the most powerful operator in Powershell, which is the switch operator. In my example here I exported the log file from the Wonderware SMC logger. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:43:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2714007.netother languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2712012 unknown@DZone.com I came across this interesting post about solving some Project Euler questions using Scala. Being a fan of Project Euler myself, I though I'll outline some of the solutions that I came up using Scala. Of course, I have taken trivial examples and the objective is more to learn Scala than to have an efficient solution. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:14:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2712012other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711521 unknown@DZone.com “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away” - Antoine de Saint Exupéry. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:53:30 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711521.netjavamethodologyother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711522 unknown@DZone.com This post examines the underlying factors that have brought the concept of multi-language programming to the forefront. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:51:20 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711522opinionother languagestrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711455 unknown@DZone.com How to run junit test suite from ant Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:06:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711455methodologyopen sourceother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2711379 unknown@DZone.com I am disappointed by the fact that Maven downloads some Jars from the Internet. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:08:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2711379javamethodologyother languagesreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2709809 unknown@DZone.com We're getting closer to the next major release of F#: our first CTP release out of Developer Division. As a result, now is a good time for me to start talking about some of what I've been working on for the past few months: the F# project system. Over the coming weeks I'll describe some of the new-to-F# project system features we'll deliver in the CTP, providing a "sneak peek" at what's coming. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:37:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709809.netMicrosoftother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2709293 unknown@DZone.com One of the most obvious things to a Java developer first coming into Scala-land is the radically different Collections API included as part of the standard library. For the most part, we use the same frameworks and APIs in Scala as are available in Java. This is natural, thanks to the extremely tight integration between the two languages. So why is this one area such a startling departure from Scala’s heritage? Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:42:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2709293javaother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2708895 unknown@DZone.com Plenty of powerful new language features have fairly recently become mainstream with the launch of VS 2008 in Nov 2007 that supports C# 3.0, amongst which:
 
 * Implicitly Typed Local Variables
 * Extension Methods
 * Lambda Expressions
 * Object and Collection Initializers
 * Anonymous Types
 * Query Expressions
 * Automatically Implemented Properties Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:32:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2708895Microsoftother languagesreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2708466 unknown@DZone.com Recently, JRuby has been gaining more and more attention in the Java and Ruby communities. Java is a powerful platform and there are millions of lines of Java code being written each month, that the world will have to live with for a long time from now. language, programmers willing to learn Jruby. Join Now for 3 days. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:46:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2708466announcementNewsother languagesrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2707876 unknown@DZone.com Since the higher layers of Mozilla are implemented using JavaScript. I’ve been eating, sleeping, and drinking it. (My copy of the Rhino book has a dozen bookmarks in it.) The more I write, the more it feels like Lisp. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:35:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2707876javascriptopinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2707449 unknown@DZone.com I’ve been reading this book on Lisp over at MIT press, a little at a time. Yesterday I read something that pushed me a little further along the path of understanding and I thought I’d share it here. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:46:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2707449other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2706847 unknown@DZone.com Ah, in last 7 days I had written few examples of Java FX and it's nothing of use. I have installed the new plugin of JavaFX on Netbeans6.1. Quite a cool plugin, with FX builder, debugger and many more features. But all with these, the API of JavaFX also got changed. And none of the old code is running on new API base. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:07:41 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2706847other languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2706031 unknown@DZone.com Both!
 Groovy is a fabulous language. Just read Groovy In Action and some of the other Groovy books. Just about every page brought a Wow response from this Java developer. And the Grails web stack builds on Groovy to provide a quick and powerful website building experience. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:56:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2706031groovyopinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2705103 unknown@DZone.com I love Powershell. I am only halfway through Bruce's book, but I am getting already a glimpse of its potential. I like especially the dynamic aspect of it. Creating and extending types on the fly is something that is quite exciting. Next I am looking to find a solution for my open issues with sorting hash tables. I think building a custom PSObject type with an integer NoteProperty and a NoteProperty that holds a FileInfo object might get me a few steps closer to solving the sorting challenge. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:46:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2705103.netother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2704923 unknown@DZone.com Over the past several weeks Github has been working on a secret Erlang project that will allow us to grow GitHub in new and novel ways. The project is called egitd and is a replacement for the stock git-daemon that ships with git. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:17:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2704923open sourceother languagestoolstrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2704626 unknown@DZone.com I participated in the ICFP Contest this year. We decided to use Scala, and one of the reasons for using it was that we wanted to try the language out in a real-world stressful development project. There were four of us, and at least two of us (including me) had some experience with Scala. I'd been playing with the language for quite a while, and had a fair understanding of how to write programs in it. I'll probably post some write-up about ICFPC later. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:36:27 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2704626other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2704250 unknown@DZone.com Then I started lurking on #scala on IRC for a few weeks. Immediately I was surprised by the snarky comments of some of the top chatters on IRC. Mostly it was a negative comment about this person or a snide remark about that language. At one point I got into an argument with a couple guys after I mentioned that I use ruby & jruby as my staple language at the moment. The closed mindedness and arrogance was amazing coming out of the chat. I would guess that’s typical of religious monoglot language zealots. Whatever. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:50:09 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2704250opinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2702134 unknown@DZone.com This one isn't going to be a meaty technical article nor a deep philosophical exploration. Instead it's about perception vs reality. What moves me to post is the following 3 twits from Tim Dysinger. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:10:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2702134other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2701325 unknown@DZone.com You may have noticed that I've been talking a bit about concurrency and Erlang recently. I've started to notice that others are taking notice and giving Erlang another look. I've been a fan of the language for a while, although it is a functional language ala a Haskell, OCaml, F# and so on, it's key strengths doesn't come necessarily from that, but from how it handles concurrency. I'm really fond of the language succinctness and beauty using pattern matching, higher order functions and so on much as I have with F#. Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:21:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2701325other languagestrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2701090 unknown@DZone.com I have been following the Erlang By Example screencasts with Kevin Smith published by Pragmatic Programmers. Through the entire series to date (Episodes 1 through 5) I found myself engaged, interested and informed. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:36:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2701090how-toopinionother languagesreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2700598 unknown@DZone.com One of the tenants of the Pragmatic Programmer is to learn at least one new language every year. What language should you learn this year? Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:04:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2700598groovyjavaother languagesrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2700599 unknown@DZone.com There has been a lot of talk in the last year or two about Java losing ground to newer languages and about which language is going to replace Java as the dominant language going into the next decade. After all the smoke clears, what should the reasonable person conclude? Is it time to move on? Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:04:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2700599.netjavaother languagesrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2700147 unknown@DZone.com Intersting puzzle, come up with the best way to do some string manipulation, use the language of your choice Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:29:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2700147.netc-and-cpphow-toother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2700018 unknown@DZone.com I have been trying to understand closures off-and-on for what seems like forever now. Last night however, while hacking around in the Clojure REPL I finally groked it! Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:15:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2700018other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2699051 unknown@DZone.com This site is the complete reference Beginners for Software Testing and Automated Testing Tools. Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:04:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2699051other languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2698915 unknown@DZone.com The audio file that was posted two weeks ago is indeed a very important artifact of computer history: It is a recording of the “Apple I BASIC” cassette tape that came with the Apple I. It is the first piece of Software ever sold by Apple (not counting computer firmware). Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:18:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2698915Appleother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2698599 unknown@DZone.com I like the Groovy concept of builders not only for providing a natural implementation of the builder pattern, but you can also look at builders as a way to create handy DSLs. Check out the SwingBuilder, the GraphicsBuilder or the Hibernate Criteria Builder to see how well targeted these DSLs can be. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:52:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2698599groovyopinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2698026 unknown@DZone.com Radiohead (cool) collaborated with Google (cool) to create a music video using lasers (cool) and 3D scanning devices (cool) instead of cameras and then released some of the resulting data under a CC-license (cool) and put it up on Google Code (cool) to let the internets muck around with it (cool). With so much awesomeness, how could I possibly go to bed? Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:13:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2698026other languagespythonProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2698028 unknown@DZone.com Discussing the Socratic Method. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:10:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2698028booksopinionother languagesreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2697191 unknown@DZone.com AMQP implementations like RabbitMQ offer OTP based messaging server. It is fun talking to them with Scala actors at the application layer. Nice concise programming model, along with great concurrency and scalability. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:59:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2697191other languagesservertrendsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2696111 unknown@DZone.com This section lists some design patterns which are useful in Scala programs. There’s also the pattern replacements page, which describes ways in which Scala language features make some common patterns unnecessary. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:34:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2696111other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2696059 unknown@DZone.com This blog post talks about design forces at play in Object Oriented systems, and how Scala Traits fit in. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:05:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2696059other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2695687 unknown@DZone.com In (J)Ruby classes can be re-opened, e.g. to fix parts of an API one is unhappy with. Michael Dürig shows how the same can be achieved in the statically typed Scala using implicit definitions and the Pimp my Library pattern. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:32:05 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2695687how-tojavaother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2695101 unknown@DZone.com Although I haven’t used it too much yet, Scala is definitely one of the languages I find most interesting right now. Many customers I work with are heavily Java focused, and getting a more flexible and powerful language with superb Java interoperability to use on the JVM feels very liberating. Now I just need to convince the customers that Scala is the future… :] But if Gossling likes it it must be good, right? Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:59:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2695101other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2695102 unknown@DZone.com Michael Lucas-Smith demonstrates some of capabilities of the framework including integrating Javascript and Smalltalk, renaming object on the fly, debugging the running application, browsing the object hierarchy. All in the Webvelocity browser based IDE! Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:59:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2695102javascriptother languagesweb designProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2694499 unknown@DZone.com Two weeks back in BOJUG meeting, I have seen lot many engineers getting confuse with JavaFX. They want to know how to run FX code in browser. Shall we use applet to run FX code. And many more. Though it tough to explain everything in a small presentation but Harish Singh and we have tried our best to explain some of the queries. Yes, FX can be very well run in an applet. I have written one HelloWorld type of example for running FX code inside applet. Its very well same. *.fx file create a .class file and then handling in the same way as we do with .class file. Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:40:19 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2694499javaother languagestoolsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2693410 unknown@DZone.com The Cyclone programming language is a safe dialect of C. Pure Cyclone programs are not vulnerable to a wide class of bugs that plague C programs: buffer overflows, format string attacks, double free bugs, dangling pointer accesses, etc. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:32:32 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2693410other languagesreviewsProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2692920 unknown@DZone.com The freely-available development environment UNA receives support for three new JVM languages: Groovy, Scala, and Fan. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:42:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2692920groovyjavaother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2691176 unknown@DZone.com One of the most exciting things in Java right now is the work being done to get other programming languages onto the JVM. If you want to try something very different from Java, Lisp is a great option. Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:05:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2691176how-tojavaother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2690592 unknown@DZone.com Be productive with Squeak and Seaside. Metaprogramming and DSLs with Smalltalk. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:24:55 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2690592frameworksopinionother languagesrubyProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2689397 unknown@DZone.com I was not born an Objective-C developer. I know that in some circles that is considered a mortal sin. Before learning Objective-C and Cocoa I had developed in a great number of languages dating back to the early 1980’s. I tell you this so that what you are about to read next is taken in the light that it was intended. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:16:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2689397other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2688956 unknown@DZone.com A funny anti-pattern that is found in the official Oracle PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference. Worst exception handling EVER. Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:33:00 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2688956databasehumoropinionother languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2687886 unknown@DZone.com I’ve putzed around with it before, went through some example code, etc., but yesterday picked up the “Programming Erlang” book from Pragmatic Programmers. Might still return it if its too dense, but doesn’t seem to be so far. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:26:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2687886other languagesphpProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2687452 unknown@DZone.com One of the limitations of a map collection class is that the keys and elements have to be defined uniformly with respect to types. We can't define keys that map to string-like elements or keys that map to int-like elements. That kind of dependent typing is impossible to do in Scala...or is it? Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:40:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2687452other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2687065 unknown@DZone.com As a developer, you are hopefully writing mostly all your own code. Nevertheless, there might be the odd time when you need some quick inspiration or even a quick snippet of code to push things along. These 23 websites are for those times. All are excellent resources and all are about sharing tips and tricks and making code freely available in a variety of different programming languages. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:22:52 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2687065other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2687066 unknown@DZone.com In any significant program, a great deal of code is spent on two activities that have very little intrinsic interest: I/O and error handling. This makes them good targets for language design. If a language can make these two areas easier, it can remove a significant part of the accidental complexity of programs. Conversely, a language in which either is difficult is a language in which effort is wasted on uninteresting problems. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:22:26 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2687066other languagesProgramming http://web2announcer.com/go/2686666 unknown@DZone.com The second part of my Scala compiler construction tutorial has been a long time coming. This post is, unfortunately, not the second part of the article — although that is coming soon. Honest. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:25:43 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2686666frameworksjavaother languagesProgramming