So the other day I'm looking over some code, and I see this... (slightly paraphrased to protect the innocent -- in the original, the declaration and the getter were, of course, separated.) /\*\* \* The name of the user \*/ private String m\_userName; /\*\* \* @return The name of the...

Now two of the big Java IDE's are promoting Ruby language tools as a big thing. IntelliJ has a plugin in early beta, and NetBeans is also making a big deal of their new early beta support. Eclipse has had a Ruby/Rails plugin for about a year or so. This...

Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, but part three of the GWT series is now up on the IBM site at: [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ad-gwt3/](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ad-gwt3/) This one is about remote procedure calls, and I'm pleased with how it turned out. I just got the proofs for the fourth and final article in this...

A collection of small things, half-finished posts, and pure whatnot that hopefully will lead to more posts in the future: - Got my first Amazon affiliate statement with no less than $1.55 heading my way. Thanks to the person who clicked through... - There's a new sidebar, for small links,...

The second part of my IBM Developerworks series on Google Web Toolkit is now online at [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ad-gwt2/](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-ad-gwt2/). This one focuses mostly on the Derby database, and features a really quick and dirty database-to-Java conversion tool. Enjoy.

I'm happy to announce that Part One of my four part series on using Google Web Toolkit is now available at: [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ad-gwt1/](http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ad-gwt1/) This part focuses on creating a GUI front-end using GWT. In case you wonder about the lead time on these things, it was originally written in August, and...

Welcome to our program, Things I Agree With Totally And Wish I Had Said First. Our hero tonight is Tim Ottinger with his hit, "[Frameworks are for the Impatient](http://www.butunclebob.com/ArticleS.TimOttinger.FrameworkImpatience)". It seems Ottinger is puzzled by a library he's trying to use.. > Look, this framework is not the game _Myst_....

I wasn't planning on posting about either web apps or linking to Joel Spolsky again, but [this language wars post](http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01.html) is just too interesting to pass up. Besides, a jillion people have already commented on this, so what's a jillion and one? Spolsky is riffing on what language or platform...

int plus2(int x) { return x+2 };List fred = list.collect(plus2);

Continuing in the getting to know you kind of vein, I thought I'd ground some of what I say by talking about the three programming languages that have made up the bulk of my professional and hobby work for the past five years or so -- Java, Python, and Ruby....