Being Erica
Erica’s life is a mess. She’s jumping from one temp job to the next, has no lasting relationships and she feels that she hasn’t accomplished anything in her life. One…
Read moreComparing Language Workbenches
For the ‘Program Analysis and Transformation’ seminar I compared three language workbenches, namely Jetbrains Meta Programming System (MPS), Spoofax and Actifsource (Although Actifsoure is not a language workbench but rather…
Read moreSnowblind
Clayton Young, the best gunman around, is about to be executed. In the last minute the governor offers him a deal. Clayton has to kill Matthew Saberneck. He agrees to…
Read moreNicer Collection Instantiation In Java
In my last post I showed that you can write a ‘cast’-method with all kind of strange properties. You probably think that this is very stupid thing to do. This…
Read moreMagic Cast Method in Java
Since Java introduced generics the type declarations got at lot longer. This is especially annoying when an API forces you to cast objects, like the reflection-API, the JDO-API , etc.…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Unit Testing Part III, Avoid Void.
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. Last time I demonstrated that the synchronization context is also relevant for…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Unit Testing Part II, Synchronization-Context Again?
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. Last time we explored some implications of the C# asynchronous operations for…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Unit Testing, Part I
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. I’ve already discussed some implications of the async feature in my previous…
Read moreC# 5.0 Async-Feature: Be Aware Of The Synchronization-Context
Disclaimer: This post is based on the C# 5.0 CTP. Everything described here is subject to future changes. The next version of C# and VB.NET will have support for asynchronous…
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