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java
If you are used to Java syntax (or another similar, verbose language), Python's list comprehension syntax might seem a little bit strange at first. However it is pretty straight forward and useful. I will try to show that on a few examples.
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java, Python
For a past 7 months my everyday (programming) language is not Java anymore. My new work involves C#, C++ and recently mostly Python. I find this as a great chance for my self-development, a chance to shift to a new level of abstraction and to broaden my experience.
Switching away from Java after almost 5 years of commercial usage (PHP was first) was tough but I learned a lot and now I know what I miss in Java (and what is better in Java than in C# or Python 
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And yesterday I saw Gavin's King post about Ceylon - a brand new language for JVM. Gavin gave just a sneak peek into the language in a few parts series of post. Compiler is not available yet. After reading first two parts of the series I must say that it looks very promising. Like a mix of best ideas from Java, C# and Python.
Have a look a Gavin's posts.
ceylon, java
One of the design patterns defined by GOF is Observer Pattern. A quick google search will provide you quite a lot of examples, definitions and diagrams. Most of them don't use generics. Here is my try ...
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java
Recently I've been working on a small JUnit extension to integrate it with TestLink. In one place I had to get access to a private field via reflection which was of a type declared as a private inner class. Having that instance I had to access the declaring outer class' private field Sounds confusing? Have a look at the examples.
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java
java, junit, reflection, runner
Recently I got a task - take the "JEE" application from JBoss AS 5.1 and run it on WAS 7.0. It shouldn't be difficult - we have JEE standard after all
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java
In this post I would like to show you a simple class and its tests and what was the evolution since JUnit3 to easyb.
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Groovy, java
The 5th issue of free JavaExpress magazine is now available in English. You can find it here.
In this issue you will find:
Grails, Groovy, java, JavaExpress
A new issue of JavaExpress magazine is now available for download. You can download it at http://www.javaexpress.pl/. English version is not available yet but it will be soon.
Grails, java, JavaExpress
In previous posts we've learned how to create Session Beans (both Statless and Stateful). In this post I would like to show how to use lifecycle callbacks.
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EJB3, java
