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Java & Spring: Impressions From a non coding perspective

I am a bit funny when it comes to learning technology, I read about it away from the computer, because otherwise there would be a lot of stuff that I would be doing that would interfer with the process of actually reading a book. Anyway, I am reading Agile Java Development right now, and I got to the point where the author shows how to build a simple page. The sheer amount of steps required is scaring me. What is more worrying is that the author keeps saying how simple this is compare...

posted @ Friday, May 25, 2007 10:42 PM | Feedback (9)

It just depends on how smart the tools are, actually.

Ben has a few words to say about Compiled vs Dynamic Laguages and the Code Feedback Loop. I mostly agree with what he says, I usually open a booish interpreter open so I can try stuff out. However, there are a few things that I don't agree with:The compiler is becoming less and less popular these days because it cannot protect your program from logic flaws, It’s becoming much like the spell-check feature of word processors.  They can tell you that you mispelled the word definate definite, but a sentence like this...

posted @ Friday, October 06, 2006 8:56 PM | Feedback (1)