I met a developer this week who had never heard of Smalltalk. We are failing ourselves by not learning and sharing the innovative things that came before. Smalltalk might be the rejuvenation your programming soul has been longing for. It is different enough to warrant study. 🤔
https://blog.devgenius.io/a-little-smalltalk-for-the-soul-b12051b709d1?source=friends_link&sk=a7f9ac82eccc5387232e806e50972e25
A little Smalltalk for the soul
Smalltalk helped me become the software engineer that I am today.
Published a release blog for the back to back releases of Eclipse Collections 12.0 (Java 11+) and 13.0 (Java 17+).
Thanks to all of our users, contributors, and advocates! 🙏Congrats and welcome to our two newest #EclipseCollections committers! 🎉👏
https://donraab.medium.com/eclipse-collections-12-0-and-13-0-packed-released-and-ready-to-go-006f8bda5127?source=friends_link&sk=ccef5b709b159ea76d599d7a3528d953
Eclipse Collections 12.0 and 13.0 Packed, Released and Ready to Go!
Back to back releases delivered for twice the back to school fun!
I spent a couple hours last night playing Galaga, Centipede, Millipede, Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, Time Pilot, Tron, Asteroids, Ms. Pac Man, Super Pac Man, Joust, 1943, Space Invaders, Tempest, and a bunch of pinball machines at a standup arcade. Timeless.
What are you wishing or waiting for in Java? | Stackademic
I made a wish in 2004 for lambdas to find their way into Java. I waited for a decade for lambdas to arrive, and they eventually arrived.
I'm excited to be answering questions this week on Code Ranch in the "Open Source Projects" forum about my book, "Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game".
Welcome:
https://coderanch.com/t/790371/open-source/Donald-Raab
Forum for questions:
https://coderanch.com/f/64/open-source
Enjoy and ask away! 🙏
Blog: What are you wishing or waiting for in Java?
#Java is great. It's also great to wish for improvements in the future. Weigh the cost/benefit of waiting for wishes against potential for missed opportunities. I give one "little" example in this blog. Enjoy! 🙏
https://donraab.medium.com/what-are-you-wishing-or-waiting-for-in-java-064cd74f92dc?source=friends_link&sk=65fb093b357007d42fd405ea0f99de96
What are you wishing or waiting for in Java? - Donald Raab - Medium
I made a wish in 2004 for lambdas to find their way into Java. I waited for a decade for lambdas to arrive, and they eventually arrived. Java has been a much better programming language to work in…
Blog: Peekaboo with Collections in #Java
I wanted to write some simple code in a quick blog. It's a two minute read. See how contains, containsBy, anySatisfy, anyMatch can be used to test if an element is "contained" in a collection. Enjoy! 🙏
https://donraab.medium.com/peekaboo-with-collections-in-java-f9c3f60da5e1?source=friends_link&sk=627d1c476d485cc98667421ef58f8b6f
Peekaboo with Collections in Java - Donald Raab - Medium
Asking a collection in Java if it contains a specific thing is kind of like playing peekaboo. I was experimenting with different ways of seeing if a Collection in Eclipse Collections contains a…
I met my book editor for coffee today at Small World Coffee in Princeton, NJ. Got my first look at "Eclipse Collections Categorically" on an actual Kindle. It looks good in grey scale and on a tablet in full color. I had only seen it in the Kindle app on my laptop previously.
The Kindle edition of my book, "Eclipse Collections Categorically: Level up your programming game" is now available! Enjoy! 🙏
https://www.amazon.com/Eclipse-Collections-Categorically-Level-programming-ebook/dp/B0FFM5MHBV/
Anthony Accioly
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