May 2007 - Posts

The Poor Man's Lambda
29 May 07 06:44 AM | andersnoras | 8 Comments   
I've been putting some more work into my little Linq for Java demo lately to make the tests for all the examples in the Linq samples demo pass. Some of these are going to be pretty challenging, but I'm well on my way. In general I believe the DSL is highly Read More...
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Open Spam
24 May 07 08:06 PM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
I never check the spam folder on GMail, but today I learned that I probably should do this more often. Take a look at all these nasty spam mails I've received lately. Even if there is some stuff from the XFire mailing list in there, Castle is without Read More...
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I'm speaking at JavaZone this year
23 May 07 02:53 AM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
I just got an email from the program committee for the JavaZone conference confirming that my proposed session had been accepted. In lieu of a sexier name, the talk is entitled "Plain Old Java DSLs" and it will be on how one can use Java 1.5 language Read More...
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Udi explains why Mean Fiddler only supports GET
10 May 07 05:02 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
In my Mean Fiddler post I wrote that the service doesn't support all of the features of the Astoria framework. Many of these, such as ordering, skips and tops aren't there because I've been lazy. The service uses NHibernate's criteria API for perform Read More...
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Mean Fiddler: REST-style query service
10 May 07 02:36 AM | andersnoras | 10 Comments   
Some days ago Ayende wrote Bumbler , a Microsoft Jasper clone, in two hours. In a comment to the post Andres Aguiar asked how long it would take to do a Microsoft Astoria clone as well. Ayende declined to do this, so we were left with the big question; Read More...
Silverlight and The History of Visual Basic
01 May 07 08:30 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
If you've looked at the Silverlight poster , you've probably noticed the list of languages supported by the new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) . The last one on this list made me stop and think for a while - what is VBx? VBx is the new dynamic Visual Read More...
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Source code for the Coho Light sample
01 May 07 06:57 PM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
A while ago I posted a rant about software factories and maintainability . This post has grown popular, especially after Ayende refered to it in a post , and I have gotten quite a few requests to post the code for my alternative implementation of the Read More...
Writing a DSL for XML Documents
01 May 07 07:11 AM | andersnoras | 3 Comments   
In a previous post I lifted the veil on my proposed session for this year's JavaZone conference. The talk will be about how one can leverage the language features in Java 1.5 and 1.6 to create embedded DSLs with Java. The post showed off the client code Read More...
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