September 2007 - Posts

Ambition, Quaere, Closures and Other Random Thoughts
27 September 07 07:20 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
Yesterday I came across Chris Wanstrath Ambition project which is very similar to my Quaere project. To exemplify the similarities between LINQ, Ambition and Quaere, here is the same query expressed in each "language". LINQ var expensiveProducts = from Read More...
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The Poor Man's Lambda - Revisited
24 September 07 07:26 PM | andersnoras | 9 Comments   
When I was writing the early spikes for the Quaere project, I wrote a blog post entitled "The Poor Man's Lambda" , back then I used anonymous classes for the "lambda" expressions. Integer[] numbers={ 5, 4, 1, 3, 9, 8, 7, 2, 0}; Object[] firstSmallNumbers Read More...
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Quaere is now an offical Codehaus project!
24 September 07 06:09 PM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
Even if InfoQ broke the news last week , I'm very pleased to announce that Quaere gotten a proper home at the Codehaus . Lots of stuff have been fixed or added to the codebase after I announced the project at JavaZone . Because of this, I have now removed Read More...
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What's The Difference Between JoSQL & Quaere?
18 September 07 04:50 AM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
In the ongoing discussions at The Server Side the is some confusion if there is any difference between Quaere and JoSQL . JoSQL, aka SQL for Java Objects, is a great framework which allows developers to run SQL like queries against collections of POJOs. Read More...
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Podcast of my JavaZone talk
17 September 07 10:06 PM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
I just noticed that the JavaZone guys have made a podcast of my talk on Plain Old Java Domain Specific Languages available. If you're interested, you can find it here . My talk was all code, so listing to the podcast is a little like listening to TV on Read More...
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Solving Puzzles with Quaere
14 September 07 04:39 AM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Earlier this year the program manager for the C# compiler, Luke Hoban showed how he used LINQ to solve one of the puzzles in Microsoft’s Puzzle Hunt event . On his blog he shows a similar puzzle , in which there is a mobile consisting of thirteen Read More...
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Answering questions about Quaere
13 September 07 03:37 AM | andersnoras | 9 Comments   
Quaere has generated quite a lot of buzz since its release yesterday, with discussions going on on both The Server Side and Channel 9 amongst others. I’ve been spending quite a lot of time at JavaZone giving demos of the framework and DSL, and the Read More...
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Library of the week
12 September 07 04:39 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Quaere has be elected Java library of the week on the Java Posse podcast. I haven’t had the time to listen yet, but its still fun. Thanks guys! Read More...
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Why Quaere?
12 September 07 04:20 PM | andersnoras | 1 Comments   
A lot of people have been asking about the choice of name for my query extensions project . Quaere is the Latin imperative for of the word quaerere which means to seek or ask. The word is the origin for the English word query. The word is pronounced ‘kwir-E’ Read More...
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Introducing Quaere - Language integrated queryies for Java
11 September 07 10:35 PM | andersnoras | 34 Comments   
Earlier today, I unveiled the Quaere project during my talk at the JavaZone conference. Quaere is an internal domain specific language that adds a querying syntax reminiscent of SQL to Java applications. The language is modeled with basis in Microsoft’s Read More...
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Mac and I
04 September 07 10:09 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
A little over a month ago I made the big switch from Windows to Mac OS. In that post I wrote that apart from me having a hard time getting used to new keyboard shortcuts, life on the Mac felt good. So how does it feel a good month down the road, and what Read More...
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Next Wednesday
04 September 07 06:11 PM | andersnoras | 2 Comments   
Next Wednesday I’ll be giving my talk on plain old Java Domain Specific languages at the JavaZone conference in Oslo. During my talk, I’ll reveal a project I’ve been putting quite a lot of work into during the last few weeks (now you Read More...
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Resolving ASM Dependency Conflicts
04 September 07 05:48 PM | andersnoras | 0 Comments   
Yesterday I ran into a rather tricky dependency issue. My final demo for my JavaZone talk depends on both Jen and Hibernate which again depend on different versions of the ASM library. There are quite a few frameworks that rely on this library, so I reckon Read More...
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