Sew, very old one. Sew like the wind!

Steven Haines of GeekCap has something to say about the subtleties of high-performance threading.

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Use def as owner with threadsafe delegate in it


Dustin Marx gives a brief overview of the special or quasi-reserved words that Groovy adds to Java's.

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Achievement Unlocked!

Jason Rudolph explains How to Level Up as a Developer.

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Scala-bility

David Pollak spills the beans: Scala is hard.
We can't, for that, omit its praise.

Edit: Pollak follows up!

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Let's Stay Together

Neal Ford aims to inoculate the object oriented mind against functionphobia in his series (OneTwoThree, Four) on functional thinking. In the latest dose, Functional thinking: Coupling and Composition, he looks at the effects of composition on code reuse.

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Java 7 General Availability

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Java 7 is now available!

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We love you. Never change.

Neal Ford's series (One, Two, Three) on functional thinking has the same identity but a new state. In "Functional Thinking: Immutability" he illustrates some of the benefits of immutability with examples in Java and Groovy.

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Rose is a rose is a rose

Bingo Card customization guru Patrick McKenzie of the blog Kalzumeus calls attention to more than three dozen Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. Try to make fewer of those assumptions!

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Clojure type definition form flowchart

Yes, Chas Emerick offers a flowchart to help you select the right Clojure type definition form.  Go with the flow!

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posting: Complaint

Stephen Colebourne has a complaint about type declaration syntax.

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