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Let's learn Kotlin from a Java point of view. We'll start by looking at some basics of Variables, Values, Classes, Properties and Constructors.
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A Java Users Group talk from September 2014 I presented on new features in Java 8: Lambdas and Streams.
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A Java Users Group talk I presented on enumerations in Java.
I cover:
- The old "type-safe enumeration pattern"
- Using enums for values
- Adding data and methods to enums
- Using enums for the Gang-of-Four State Pattern
- Using enums to emulate function pointers in Java
- EnumSet and EnumMap
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I presented a talk on Dynamic Proxies to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 12/02/2010.
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I presented a talk on Java Annotations to the Columbia, Maryland Java Users Group on 1/19/2010.
This is a very deep dive into
- Annotation Concepts
- Creating annotation processors
- Using annotations at compile time and runtime
- Generating code from annotations
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A video tutorial on ANTLR 3.x
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There should never exist any language feature such that adding a new type to a referenced package can break your existing code. Import-on-demand (aka "start imports") is one such feature... And it's evil...
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I'm really tired of hearing folks incorrectly state "primitives are passed by value, objects are passed by reference".
So I'm gonna rant, and you're gonna listen...
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