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by rpeden 15y ago
I'll try to spread the word to get a few more people on board. Once we have an idea of how big the meetup will be, we can think about date/time/location.
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by rpeden 15y ago
Count me in as well. Perhaps we should set up a group on meetup.com or somewhere similar to get things organized?
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by rpeden 15y ago
Groovy is still pretty slow, but last I checked the Groovy++ compiler can take unchanged Groovy code and compile it so that it is often as fast as Java.
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by rpeden 15y ago
For a bit of fun, take a look at the comments posted after the article. Many of them don't realize it is satire.
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by rpeden 15y ago
My experience is similar to his. I have a business degree and worked in accounting, but decided I'd like to get back into programming after dabbling in it when I was younger. I wrote some Rails apps as side projects and put them on Github,
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by rpeden 15y ago
If you want additional class naming inspiration, just browse the Spring codebase! Some of my favourites: - SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory - AbstractInterceptorDrivenBeanDefinitionDecorator - AbstractInterruptibleBatchPreparedSt
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PlayBook OS 2.0 developer beta now available(crackberry.com)
2 points by rpeden 15y ago|0 comments
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C/C++ Native SDK for BlackBerry Tablet OS released(bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com)
1 points by rpeden 15y ago|0 comments
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Android runtime for BlackBerry PlayBook beta released(bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com)
1 points by rpeden 15y ago|0 comments
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BBX – The Next Generation BlackBerry OS(devblog.blackberry.com)
2 points by rpeden 15y ago|0 comments
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by rpeden 15y ago
GWT has had a similar EventBus class for a while that works well on both the server and client sides of an app.
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by rpeden 15y ago
Even in some parts of the Java world, that problem doesn't exist anymore. The Play framework uses its own copy of the Eclipse compiler to compile everything on the fly while it is running in development mode...so as you as you save your cha
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by rpeden 15y ago
To be fair, this isn't exactly uncommon in the history of business. If I remember correctly, in Drucker's Innovation and Entrepreneurship, this exact phenomenon is discussed as a counterpoint to the first-mover advantage. It is often easier
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by rpeden 15y ago
My apologies; I must have misread something in your post. Validation can be a strange thing. Sometimes you'll make a little change that seems inconsequential, and it will make all the difference. If nothing else, look at it as a fun opportu
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by rpeden 15y ago
I think that a couple of weeks is far too soon to decide that something is a failure. It's barely even enough time to gather enough data to decide what can be adjusted and improved. An article that has been posted here before comes to mind:
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by rpeden 15y ago
Am I missing something? I don't see this article in Discover, or on Discover's site. The linked article is from the Discovery Channel, which as far as I can tell has different owners and isn't affiliated with Discover Magazine.
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Project Kotlin - a statically-typed JVM language developed by JetBrains(confluence.jetbrains.net)
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by rpeden 15y ago
Sounds like you've already got a decent portfolio in place, which is the most important part of the process. Are you near a major city where there are a lot of developer meetups? If so, have you tried going to any? Two years ago, I was a gu
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by rpeden 15y ago
I think it is natural to want to self-identify as part of a community. I also don't think it's wrong to self-identify as part of more than one community. Saying "I'm a .NET developer" or "I'm a Java developer" doesn't preclude one from simu
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by rpeden 15y ago
The other side of that is that in the hands of someone with good knowledge of HTML and CSS, you can accomplish quite a bit with GWT. Prior to starting a project with GWT, I had only done client-side development in vanilla Javascript, HTML,
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by rpeden 15y ago
Looks like it was created with Adobe PageMill 3.0...which was discontinued 11 years ago. It also has a Java applet for the 110 year countdown!
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by rpeden 16y ago
This comes from the docs for the DataPower XML Security Appliance. Naturally, I was curious about what this Appliance does. If you go up the tree a bit, click Development, then XML Firewall, then Introduction, you'll find this tidbit: "Thes
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JSONx is an IBM standard format to represent JSON as XML(publib.boulder.ibm.com)
52 points by rpeden 16y ago|75 comments
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by rpeden 16y ago
Interesting observation, because in cities I've observed (Ottawa and Toronto) the type of people using BBs are the opposite of the ones you've seen. Among young people I see around town, on the bus/train, etc., almost all of them have BBs.
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by rpeden 16y ago
You might want to check out Ruboto. I haven't used it yet, but it seems to allow you to do exactly what you want, i.e. write full Android apps using JRuby. I've heard there's a significant performance penalty, though. http://ruboto.org/ I
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by rpeden 16y ago
The book by the article's author (Disrupt) is quite good too. It takes he points in the article and expands on them, giving you concrete exercises to work through to generate new ideas. While I don't think you can systematize innovation, I
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by rpeden 16y ago
I don't think it's totally unreasonable to expect a web designer to find a way to show their work off online. Note, however, that in doing so you might end up overlooking some really great designers who don't have the time or expertise to s
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by rpeden 16y ago
I guess you've never tried Haskell then. :) http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/4.1.0.0/doc...
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by rpeden 16y ago
Right, but what if that attention becomes less valuable as time goes on? We're already at the point where many people don't even see ads on sites like Facebook. The ads are just background noise. In five to ten years, the kids born in the
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by rpeden 16y ago
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to seek treatment if you feel this way. For years, I just lived with it. I look back on those now as lost years when I could have accomplished a lot, but instead sat around accomplishing very lit

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