Archive: July 2008

Jul 19, 11:16 AM by Kai Jäger

Dynamic-typing and performance

Pretty much by accident I just discovered this video on YouTube, in which James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language, basically badmouthes Ruby and it's lack of scalability. Twitter [...]

Jul 17, 22:06 PM by Kai Jäger

Re: Java Posse #196

Marc Seeger kindly informed me today, that the Java Posse was doing a section (mp3) in their latest episode on my recent blog post Java Swing is not [...]

Jul 14, 18:06 PM by Kai Jäger

How to destroy your company’s reputation in one simple step Explicit

The original title of this article had a good amount of profanity in it, but I’m not quite as pissed off now as I was before. Also, I realized that [...]

Jul 07, 23:59 PM by Kai Jäger

The Incredible Hulk review

So I got to see the new movie “The Incredible Hulk” tonight and I thought that it was alright but not great. Before I continue, let me tell you that [...]

Jul 06, 09:25 AM by Kai Jäger

Java Swing is not thread-safe

So I just learned that Java's GUI-framework "Swing" is not thread-safe (and neither is Microsoft's "Windows Forms"). What that means is that GUI components may only be manipulated by a [...]

Jul 01, 00:04 AM by Kai Jäger

Top ten qualities of a good blog post on the top ten qualities of good programmers Explicit

Reddit’s “Programming” section can be really curious at times. For those of you who don’t know it: Reddit is a social news site (and I think the fact that I [...]