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An evening on the Go

Ben — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:47:44 +0000

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Last Thursday (July 22nd, 2010) Rob Pike, a Principal Engineer at Google, gave a talk at the O’Reilly Open Source conference. In this talk he stated that established languages such as C++ and Java are too complex and not adequately suited for today’s computing [...]

Some notes on discovering your type parameter using the Reflection API

Ben — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:54:04 +0000

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Starting with release 5.0, the Java language comes equipped with parametric polymorphism. Also known as generics, this language feature allows for a type (a class, interface, enum or other) to be parameterized with a type variable: a variable that represents some other type. This [...]

The Long and Winding Road: a tale of grouping my mails using a user-defined field in Outlook

Ben — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 01:33:38 +0000

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First and foremost an apology to all regular readers: I fully realize GridShore is not intended to deal with Microsoft technology (or whatever detritus is collected under that name). However, this one is such a beauty of having to go the long way to [...]

Bad science…

Ben — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:58:13 +0000

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The last few days I’ve been reading BAD Astronomy, a book by astronomer Philip Plait that describes common misconceptions, misuses and scientific abuses of astronomy. Partly written to be funny and partly to debunk the nonsense that arises from people misusing and abusing science, [...]

Upgrade woes and frustrations

Ben — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:49:26 +0000

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This Monday my corporate laptop was upgraded. Last week I was in proud possession of an HP/Compaq NC6400, this week I have an IBM Lenovo R400 Thinkpad (an absolute Boer of a laptop, compared with the sleek and polished Compaq). It’s ugly and the [...]

Just a moment of your time….

Ben — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:26:30 +0000

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Like Jettro in his perspective on content management, I would like to draw your attention to another blog which was published on the Daily WTF and mentioned on The ServerSide. It’s hilarious and a good lesson as well: Java is Slow!

Enjoy!

Dutch Direct: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dijkstra’s Shortest Path algorithm

Ben — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:31:12 +0000

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This year, 2009, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of a landmark moment for (Dutch) computing science: it is 50 years ago this year that Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, The Netherlands’ most famous computing scientist, published his Shortest Path Algorithm in Numerische Mathematik, the German journal [...]

On the Origin of Technologies

Ben — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:24:26 +0000

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This year, 2009, is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin‘s birth and the 150th anniversary of the first publication of On the Origin of Species. In this famous publication Darwin launched his notion of how species’ survival is dictated by their ability to make [...]

It’s not about the language, people….

Ben — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:54:45 +0000

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Following a trackback to your own blog entry can be interesting from time to time. Today, for instance, I was led to an interesting blog from quite some years ago on the sys-con site by Michael Yuan entitled “Is Ruby Replacing Java? – Not [...]

The parable of the lightbulb

Ben — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 01:30:03 +0000

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The other day I noticed that a bulb had burned out in my room. Which meant that I had to get a new bulb and replace the one that had failed. The act of replacing the bulb, perhaps surprisingly, led to some aggravation. Let [...]