The second time I have taken a deeper look at Groovy (this happened sometime last year), there were a couple of things about its meta programming capabilities that even if looking good were not so easy and not so advanced as the offerings in other languages.
At that time, I’ve looked at what other languages (like [...]
Entries from September 2007
September 20, 2007
JavaZone totally… Rocks!
Well, I just realized that there is already one week since JavaZone has closed its doors for this year. And even if it is so late, I couldn’t resist posting about how great this conference is. I mean starting with the great organization, the venue, those “weird” ideas (f.e. the opening with a Norwegian Rammstein [...]
September 17, 2007
CSSVista… what’s that?
Well, it is definitely not a stylesheet editor for your Vista Windows OS. In fact it has nothing to do with Vista OS, but only with CSS.
It is a free product that should provide you the ability to edit live the CSS of your site on both IE and Firefox. That’s sounds cool! Editing live [...]
September 7, 2007
MetaObject Protocol Reference Links
A first set of links about MetaObject Protocol (theory and different implementations including Lisp, Ruby, Python, etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-object_protocol
Serial Parrot/Cardinal Interview: Episode II
In-process cross-language object interaction: adapters or navigators?
perl.perl6.internals
Jim Hugunin’s The One True Object: Part1 and Part 2
MOP Specification
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/goops/Metaobjects-and-the-Metaobject-Protocol.html
The Common Lisp Object System MetaObject Protocol
Seeing Metaclasses Clearly
People have recommended also The Art of the Metaobject Protocol by [...]
September 5, 2007
Code Querying Made Easy!
This free Eclipse plugin seems quite intersting. I think I remember some other approaches in this direction, but none went so far. According to their front page the following features are supported:
Search and Navigate code – search semantic properties of code (both source and bytecode), and define customized tree-views.
Find bugs – use SemmleCode’s standard library [...]
September 4, 2007
Should I definitively move from Blogger?
Since I upgraded my account from Blogger 1 to Blogger 2, I have started to have problems accessing my account. Not that I have been writing a there a lot, but still it was very frustrating. Things where getting slower and slower every day and finally for the last couple of weeks I haven’t [...]
