Whether life throws you fastballs or curveballs, accept them and swing true.
What do you say now, jackass?
That’s known as trouble with the curve.-Clint Eastwood as Gus from “Trouble with the Curve”
My father-in-law passed away this week. His name was James, but everyone called him Jimmy. I…
Creative writing meets Java Text Blocks and Eclipse Collections
In September 2021, I took a month off from technical writing in my blog. I experimented with writing haiku for the month. …
Learn a little Smalltalk, and you might thank yourself later.
I wanted to write a blog for the holidays to meet my commitment of writing one blog per month. I had some experiments I had written using Pharo 8.0 that I decided to organize into individual tests so I could…
Features you want with the collections you need.
Learn the Eclipse Collections library by completing hands-on Java code katas.
We learn best by doing
Eclipse Collections is an open source Java collections library. Eclipse Collections has been evolving as a Java library since 2004. It was first released into open source as GS Collections in January 2012. …
Demonstrating ClassComparer, a utility class built with Eclipse Collections.
Rich APIs can be great. They can significantly reduce the duplication of code by providing many useful common behaviors. Sometimes there are different implementations of classes that have a similar rich set of method signatures. …
Exploring the evolutionary design of parallelism in Eclipse Collections
In 2006, I was working on a proprietary distributed Java caching architecture in a large financial services company. We cached and indexed all of the firm’s trades and positions in a complex object graph in memory so we could slice and…
A poem
I wrote this poem in 1988 and it was published in my high school literary magazine.
Snowflakes drop upon our brows,
slush beneath our feet.
The air around us freezes the tips of our gloves;
Still, we are determined to conquer this last great mountain.
Just one foot in front of the…
What my cousin Chris taught me about living
I hope this story reminds you of one positive thing, every single day.
My cousin Chris passed away on September 28, 2012. This is the first time I am writing about him. I don’t really know what to write to be honest…
A blog about a lesser known Eclipse Collections method
Eclipse Collections has a method named into that was added in the 8.0 release. The signature of into is defined as follows on the RichIterable interface.
Java Champion. Creator of the Eclipse Collections OSS Java library (http://www.eclipse.org/collections/). Inspired by Smalltalk. Opinions are my own.
