Archive for the ‘loty’ Category

LOTY/TOTY for 2010

If anyone’s interested, here’s a clue as to what I’m working on in 2010:

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Making Java “Groovier” with LambdaJ

I spent the better part of yesterday tracing my way through the codebase for a large-scale enterprise application that my team is building right now, and I happened upon the following piece of code: //…imports excluded for clarity public class BusinessActivityBinMetaClassHelper { //… public static List<Long> getSrmMetaClassIdListJava(List<BusinessActivityBinMetaClass> businessActivityBinMetaClassList) { List<Long> srmMetaClassIdList = new ArrayList<Long?(); if(businessActivityBinMetaClassList [...]

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Functional programming blog aggregator in the works…

So I’m in the midst of planning my next toy project, specifically with an aim to build something for the cloud, be it Google App Engine, Mor.ph, EC2, etc. (that part is still up for grabs). What I’d like to do is an opt-in blog aggregation site focused around functional programming. It would be very [...]

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Hello, Clojure!

; Hello World! (defn hello [name] (println “Hello, ” name)) (hello “World!”)

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LOTY…Part Deux

A few days ago I pontificated on my need to choose a new “Language of the Year.” Right now I’m attempting to choose between Scala and Clojure. If nothing else, I’ve learned from this exercise that asking the community for feedback is a GOOD thing. Your comments have been very helpful. To summarize: As far [...]

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