http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog Sat, 24 Jul 2010 21:13:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am not worried about Flex, Silverlight, JavaFX or some other rich Internet application (RIA) technology replacing HTML and the other standard web technologies on the Internet. The Internet's success is because standard web technologies have made it easy for people to create and share documents. HTML editors like Hot Dog, ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=5 JEval, the Java, open source, expression evaluation library that I wrote a number of years ago is still alive and kicking. Someone has taken the library and integrated it with a charting tool to create, JEvalCharter. Its cool to see that JEval is still providing value to developers out there. ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=378 There's a lot of talk these days about what will be the next "big" language. A lot of my fellow Java developers believe its going to be a language that runs on the JVM. Will it be Scala, Clojure, JRuby or some other language that has yet to be written? ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=374 No longer are conversation about what is the best Java Web framework very interesting. With the onslaught of new programming languages for the JVM, that conversation has shifted to one about which technologies make the best mix for a Java Web application. There are so many languages and framework available ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=372 Here is a list of Scala links I compiled for an Introduction to Scala presentation I posted on this blog a couple of weeks ago. I am posting the list as a separate entry, because I plan to add to it as I come across new links. Scala Home Page Martin Odersky's ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=365 I thought it would be interesting to see what the job scene looks like for the various JVM languages out there. The languages I chose to feature on my Indeed.com trend chart were Groovy, JRuby, Jython, Rhino, Scala and Clojure. The order in which I listed them is the order ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=355 When one see excellent, yet simple software, its not hard to admire its beauty. In the past few months, I've discovered a couple of amazing, yet simple songs from the band, The Breeders. The most amazing thing about these two songs is that they were released 18 years apart. Fortunately Gone ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=348 The Java world was a buzz this week with news that SpringSource is being acquired by VMWare. What does this mean for the future of Spring? In St. louis, Spring is very dominant, as I am sure it everywhere else. Spring has definitely given extra life to an aging Java ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=346 I gave an Introduction to Scala talk yesterday for the software team I am a member of. I have included here the slides and code examples used in the presentation. Presentation Code Examples Hello World package org.breidecker.scalaexamples object HelloWorld { def main(args : Array[String]) : Unit = { println("Hello World!") } } // Notes: // 1. main method is required to ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=331 Alex Miller just announced most of the sessions for The Strange Loop developer conference to be held in St. Louis, MO on October 23, 2009.I will be attending as well as a number of people I work with. I'm expecting a big turnout, as there is a lot of buzz ... http://evolutionarygoo.com/blog/?p=329