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Java is not Statically Typed (right now)

January 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments

What?!?1?!/!? That is right, I said it Java is not statically typed and by proxy is not safer than dynamic languages. Zealots HALT! We can fix this, and I intend to add some gas to the fire that people like Bob Lee over at crazybob.org have started.
So let me start by saying […]

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When is a Tool not a Tool?

November 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments

A couple weeks ago my colleague Brian LeGros published an article about Object Persistance and Architecture. It was a very good article in his series on design practices, but it made me think about some struggles I have had when working with persistance frameworks.
Before I begin I want to attempt to establish two seperate […]

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Flex Frameworks

October 24th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Recently there has been a lot of discussion at my office, and online about whether or not a framework is necessary in Flex. Before revealing my opinion I wanted to go over a few reasons why I believe frameworks are used.
I went to Wikipedia and looked for a list of common features in web application […]

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2PP Episode 4: Bungies the Chick

October 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The last couple weeks have been pretty busy for me. Between giving presentations, at work and at usergroups, and working on the 2nd Player Podcast. Well next week should slow down considerably and I hope to put out a few more posts about coding. One is going to be about Persistence Driven Design, […]

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Model Glue Flex

July 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments

So I finally got a chance to play around with the alpha of Model-Glue Flex and I must say I am rather impressed. I never got a chance to use the ColdFusion version of the framwork, but Model-Glue Flex is an order of magnitude better than the other frameworks I have seen for Flex, […]

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