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Quite a few .NET based Composite Oriented Programming spikes have surfaced in the wake of my humble COP spike last week. I was by no means the first to implement this concept on .NET and most of the other spikes were written long before I posted mine. As far as I know Fredrik Kalseth was first to the flag when he wrote about it back in February ...

A while a go Neil Gafter proposed extension methods as a new feature in Java 7. This is an interesting proposal and if it is implemented, it would make Quaere even better. I'll skip the tired list sorting example from the discussions and think out loud about how Quaere would benefit from extension methods. First lets look at some simple features. ...

Casper wrote an interesting comment to my screen cast about LINQ and Quaere auto completion which deserves an answer in the form of a blog post. As the title suggests you’re in for a ride through many different concepts in .NET, Java, LINQ and Quaere amongst other things. Fasten your seat belts! For those of you who didn’t bother ...

Some ever recurring discussions around Quaere are “this isn’t really LINQ for Java” and “cool, but this isn’t truly type-safe”. In this post I’ll dive into these topics by explaining how LINQ works… LINQ to Objects The language integration in C# 3.0 and Visual Basic 9 makes LINQ very readable and ...