Reality-Loop

  • July 22, 2009

    DSLs - 'faith no more' reloaded

    Some month ago I was skeptical about lightheartedly jumping into DSL-creation, and I was wondering if I had lost my faith. Then I realized that I was not the only one: Other people have lost their faith... Now I realize this was all a spirit...

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  • July 20, 2009

    Java: living in a revolutionary time

    It's just funny how there seems to be an accumulation of revolutions lately: Adam Bien: Java EE 5 and 6 are a revolution and not just an evolution Kent Beck about ordinary and revolutionary software design. My humble self: JPA2 - the poten...

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  • July 15, 2009

    OS X: fink messes with your java classpath

    Recently I spent half of a night correcting the consequences of a stupid decision: I thought it would be a good idea to install Ant with Fink... Generally I am a big fan of the OSX package managers Fink and MacPorts. They have saved me a l...

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  • July 07, 2009

    Visual modeling: Is it worth it? An example...

    The following link points to an interesting article (in German): Groovy-DSLs mit Eclipse-GMF visualisieren The article perfectly shows some of the issues I have with the current state of visual modeling and MDSD. The first part of the art...

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  • July 06, 2009

    Some developers have good taste ;-)

    From a unit-test of OpenEJB: movies.addMovie(new Movie("Quentin Tarantino", "Reservoir Dogs", 1992)); movies.addMovie(new Movie("Joel Coen", "Fargo", 1996)); movies.addMovie(new Movie("Joel Coen", "The Big Lebowski", 1998)); I think I coul...

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