Archive for July, 2003

++ not considered atomic

# 2003-07-30 17:57:51 -0400 | Java | 2 Comments

For the longest time, I’ve been happily deluding myself that the ++ operator is atomic in Java. I tried never to give it much thought because I wanted it to be atomic. But those blissful days are over.

Matt’s first law of software complexity

# 2003-07-25 10:26:01 -0400 | Java | 7 Comments

Complexity is conserved by abstractions.

When Java is dead

# 2003-07-23 00:37:27 -0400 | Java | 22 Comments

Could a programming language last “forever”? What about a thousand years? How long do you think Java will last?

Tomcat’s hind leg

# 2003-07-14 06:01:41 -0400 | Java | 1 Comment

Is that Tomcat’s hind leg… or something else. You decided. (from here)

‘javadoc’ for tag libs (and other CoolStuff at developer.sun.com)

# 2003-07-02 01:58:46 -0400 | Java | No Comments

Sometimes I feel I just can’t keep up with all the things that are going on with Java. Okay, I know I can’t keep up with it. Like today, I found this Cool Stuff page at Sun (has a ’shaking’ logo and all) (via this post to sjug-announce). TLDDoc: Javadoc for your taglibs. (I once wrote an in-house Doclet that does [...]