Monthly Archives: July 2003

++ not considered atomic

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

Complexity is conserved by abstractions.

When Java is dead

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

Tomcat’s hind leg

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

UPDATED: The world’s best cut-copy-paste preventer

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

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 [...]