Comments for Century Minds http://blog.centuryminds.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 Comment on Playing with Ubiquity by What’s the Buzz about Ubiquity? | Mike Haydon http://blog.centuryminds.com/2008/10/playing-with-ubiquity/#comment-208 What’s the Buzz about Ubiquity? | Mike Haydon Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:23:29 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/?p=106#comment-208 [...] Playing with Ubiquity - I have been playing with Firefox Ubiquity this afternoon, and here is the result: A translation command for Word Reference. If you have Ubiquity installed, you should be able to install directly from this page. Get the source code here. [...] [...] Playing with Ubiquity - I have been playing with Firefox Ubiquity this afternoon, and here is the result: A translation command for Word Reference. If you have Ubiquity installed, you should be able to install directly from this page. Get the source code here. [...]

]]> Comment on ANTLR Tutorial - Dependency injection language by Good ANTLR Resource - Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/ http://blog.centuryminds.com/2008/09/antlr-tutorial-dependency-injection-language/#comment-207 Good ANTLR Resource - Adam Jordens@littlesquare:~/ Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:02:18 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/?p=60#comment-207 [...] of others, if you’re looking to get started with ANTLR, here’s a useful introduction blog post. A quick search on dzone would have saved some trial and [...] [...] of others, if you’re looking to get started with ANTLR, here’s a useful introduction blog post. A quick search on dzone would have saved some trial and [...]

]]> Comment on ANTLR Tutorial - Dependency injection language by kanthi swaroop http://blog.centuryminds.com/2008/09/antlr-tutorial-dependency-injection-language/#comment-206 kanthi swaroop Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:10:13 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/?p=60#comment-206 Now thats interesting. Typical applications of ANTLR would be in parsing domain. My first interaction with ANTLR was for a data generation application. We had this system which consume huge xml streams. The schema types were defined via xsi and testing the code for all conditions was inhumane! Even coming up with data for functional flows was painful. So the solution was to comeup with a template of the xml (using schema) and another template for possible datatypes. Parse the template, create a inmemory tree and walk the tree several times (using custom java code). We picked up a random domain value for substitution for each walk and ended up having a comprehensive data sets. There were certain correlation problems though and it was a different story. I really wish, you wrote the article back then ;) Now thats interesting. Typical applications of ANTLR would be in parsing domain. My first interaction with ANTLR was for a data generation application. We had this system which consume huge xml streams. The schema types were defined via xsi and testing the code for all conditions was inhumane! Even coming up with data for functional flows was painful. So the solution was to comeup with a template of the xml (using schema) and another template for possible datatypes. Parse the template, create a inmemory tree and walk the tree several times (using custom java code). We picked up a random domain value for substitution for each walk and ended up having a comprehensive data sets. There were certain correlation problems though and it was a different story. I really wish, you wrote the article back then ;)

]]> Comment on Java static imports + Fluent interfaces + Builder pattern= DSL by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 14 - Fluent Interface Edition http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-197 Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - The Weekly Source Code 14 - Fluent Interface Edition Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:20:51 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/21/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-197 [...] Similar things are done in Java with their support for mixins, called Static Imports in Java 5. [...] [...] Similar things are done in Java with their support for mixins, called Static Imports in Java 5. [...]

]]> Comment on Weak and Soft References in Java by Jesse http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/11/weak-and-soft-references-in-java/#comment-203 Jesse Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:32:22 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/11/10/weak-and-soft-references-in-java/#comment-203 Nice article. A practical example would be nice. Nice article. A practical example would be nice.

]]> Comment on Weak and Soft References in Java by Me http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/11/weak-and-soft-references-in-java/#comment-202 Me Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:25:01 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/11/10/weak-and-soft-references-in-java/#comment-202 What absolutely horrid writing. What absolutely horrid writing.

]]> Comment on Weak and Soft References in Java by prashant http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/11/weak-and-soft-references-in-java/#comment-201 prashant Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:20:13 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/11/10/weak-and-soft-references-in-java/#comment-201 Ruben, thanks a lot for your descriptive explanation which indeed helps.Can you please suggest me where can we use WeakReferences? Thanks Prashant Jalasutram http://prashantjalasutram.blogspot.com/ Ruben,

thanks a lot for your descriptive explanation which indeed helps.Can you please suggest me
where can we use WeakReferences?

Thanks
Prashant Jalasutram
http://prashantjalasutram.blogspot.com/

]]> Comment on Java static imports + Fluent interfaces + Builder pattern= DSL by Mikel Alcón http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-196 Mikel Alcón Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:34:48 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/21/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-196 Stephan: Rather than using something so obfuscated as a method called $, I would rename it to something more clean: System.out.println(i18n( FILE_NOT_FOUND, file)) for example. Anyone who reads this knows what the code is doing (I think it cannot be said the same for the $ method). BTW, good post about fluent interfaces. Stephan: Rather than using something so obfuscated as a method called $, I would rename it to something more clean:

System.out.println(i18n( FILE_NOT_FOUND, file))

for example. Anyone who reads this knows what the code is doing (I think it cannot be said the same for the $ method).

BTW, good post about fluent interfaces.

]]> Comment on Java static imports + Fluent interfaces + Builder pattern= DSL by Mikel Alcón http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-195 Mikel Alcón Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:25:09 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/21/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-195 Paulo: Antlr is a good tool, but I wouldn't use it unless it is strictly necessary. When you build a external DSL you lost a lot of functionalities from the host language. Generally I prefer internal DSL. If you want to use Antlr you have to think it if it worth it. For many organizations is easier to develop a Java/Ruby/Groovy based DSL, which they can reuse their host language experience, than constructing a completely new language. Paulo: Antlr is a good tool, but I wouldn’t use it unless it is strictly necessary. When you build a external DSL you lost a lot of functionalities from the host language. Generally I prefer internal DSL. If you want to use Antlr you have to think it if it worth it. For many organizations is easier to develop a Java/Ruby/Groovy based DSL, which they can reuse their host language experience, than constructing a completely new language.

]]> Comment on Java static imports + Fluent interfaces + Builder pattern= DSL by Stephan Schmidt http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-194 Stephan Schmidt Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:46:24 +0000 http://blog.centuryminds.com/2007/10/21/java-static-imports-fluent-interfaces-builder-pattern-dsl/#comment-194 @Marcos: I've been using the $() shortcut in Reposita Messages, as a lookup for i18n bundles and keys. System.out.println($( FILE_NOT_FOUND, file)) is easier to read than ...(bundle.getMessage(...)). I'm not sure if in your case it would be more readable with days(5) and hours(3), the $() seems to me a try to rebuild the Ruby way with 5.times. It's clean, but times(5) and days(3) is as readable and no need to extend Integer. Peace -stephan @Marcos:

I’ve been using the $() shortcut in Reposita Messages, as a lookup for i18n bundles and keys. System.out.println($( FILE_NOT_FOUND, file)) is easier to read than …(bundle.getMessage(…)). I’m not sure if in your case it would be more readable with days(5) and hours(3), the $() seems to me a try to rebuild the Ruby way with 5.times. It’s clean, but times(5) and days(3) is as readable and no need to extend Integer.

Peace
-stephan

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