Cross Post from Java.Net
So although this year was the first year that I missed in string of successive JavaOne's, I thought I would share a recent email exchange from one my compatriots in the Java community...
Much of my attention, and rightly so has been focused on ADO.NET vNext and the halo effect it is generated since we had it's coming out party during Tech Ed 2006.
Every so often you see a technology although established in terms of the fact...
Tor Norbye (Sun Microsystems), Carl Quinn (Google), Dick Wall (New Energy Associates), Joe Nuxoll (Apple) (I worked with Tor, Carl and Joe back at Sun) who run the excellent Java Posse podcast have picked up on some of the recent blog...
Mike Champion of Microsoft picked up on comments from both my and Roger Voss' blogs on what the impact of LINQ means to the evolution of the Java language.
I'd like to first clarify my motivations for sticking my neck out on this: I...
Roger Voss, posting on JavaLobby gives what I believe a very pragmatic view of what LINQ means to not only Java, but to the broader developer community. His approach I think, is particularly appropriate: in the aftermath of what was an...