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in the wild: extra-syntacticular

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Are annotations extra-syntacticular?

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Silent but Deadly

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Scripting languages often have the weakness of silent failure, which pays for the "robustness" value. Configuration-based "languages", particularly XML (the latest magic cool-ade) ones have a similar silent-failure weakness. Flex 3.0 adds these two together plus a minimal amount of available documentation, provides loads of power, but also a huge ...

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Why isn’t Groovy enough?

Friday, January 11th, 2008

The things you see asked in a technical context that would be quite humorous for an outsider looking over your shoulder.

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Adobe Writers used to Sell Swampland in Florida

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

From Adobe's product information page about back-end support for their front-end Flex product. LiveCycle Data Services ES (previously called Flex Data Services) software provides a comprehensive set of data-enabling features for using data in Flex or Ajax based RIAs that revolutionize the user experience. A powerful data services architecture and programming ...

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