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  • Senior Developers Don't Know OO Anymore Mar 8, 2018
  • Modern Programming Language for Monte-Carlo Apr 18, 2015
  • On the Role of Static Types and Generic Types on Productivity Jun 29, 2014
  • throws Exception May 27, 2014
  • 5 Minutes of Xtend Apr 8, 2014
  • Julia and the Cumulative Normal Distribution Aug 13, 2013
  • Octave vs Scilab for PDEs in Finance Jul 30, 2013
  • The CUDA Performance Myth II Jul 12, 2013
  • Simple 'Can Scala Do This?' Questions Jun 11, 2013
  • SABR with the new Hagan PDE Approach May 28, 2013
  • A Fast Exponential Function in Java Apr 19, 2013
  • Root finding in Lord Kahl Method to Compute Heston Call Price (Part II) Apr 11, 2013
  • Root finding in Lord Kahl Method to Compute Heston Call Price Apr 9, 2013
  • From Double Precision Normal Density to Double Precision Cumulative Normal Distribution Apr 2, 2013
  • Scala is Mad (part 2) Feb 13, 2013
  • Scala is Mad Dec 12, 2012
  • Scala Again Feb 6, 2012
  • exp(y*log(x)) Much Faster than Math.pow(x,y) Apr 8, 2011
  • SIMD and Mersenne-Twister Feb 5, 2011
  • The CUDA Performance Myth Jan 3, 2011
  • Another Look at Java Matrix Libraries Nov 29, 2010
  • Java enum Is Evil Aug 12, 2010
  • A Very Interesting Feature of Scala Aug 7, 2010
  • Diffusion Limited Aggregation Applet Jun 9, 2010
  • Java & 3D Surface Dec 18, 2009
  • double[][] Is Fine Nov 26, 2009
  • Java Calendar Is Broken On JVM Upgrade Aug 19, 2009
  • Java int Overflow Behavior Jun 15, 2009
  • Static Fields and Inheritance Jun 15, 2009
  • Benchmarking Languages Is Difficult Jun 3, 2009
  • Cholesky & Jakarta Commons Math May 15, 2009
  • Java Logging Still Crap in 2009 Apr 24, 2009
  • Bachelier vs. Black Mar 23, 2009
  • Senior Developers Team Productivity X4 (from MS Research Paper) Feb 10, 2009
  • The End Of Rings Around Plain Java - A Better Concurrency Test Jan 15, 2009
  • Running Rings Around Plain Java - The Killer Code Jan 8, 2009
  • Running rings around plain Java Jan 8, 2009
  • More Double Troubles Jan 6, 2009
  • Java Programmers Are Idiots? Dec 17, 2008
  • Double.NaN Is Evil Dec 9, 2008
  • Grails Spring Union Not Surprising Nov 27, 2008
  • Java Is Dead Nov 21, 2008
  • OO Desillusion Aug 28, 2008
  • Java Compilation Performance / Processor Speed Jul 1, 2008
  • DecimalFormat Is Broken May 14, 2008
  • Using MiG Layout For Better Swing Development Apr 29, 2008
  • SwiXml Review Apr 24, 2008
  • Better Java Swing Development Apr 17, 2008
  • The 2008 Java Web Framework Jan 22, 2008
  • Apache DbUtils Completely Useless Nov 2, 2007
  • I fell in the trap of Boolean.getBoolean() Oct 12, 2007
  • Fast Web Development With Scala Sep 25, 2007
  • Spring Web Services, Finally! Aug 23, 2007
  • Original Pattern: ServletRequest in ThreadLocal Aug 2, 2007
  • Why Eclipse Is Better Jul 27, 2007
  • Tapestry5 vs Wicket: 1 - 0 Jul 11, 2007
  • NetBeans 6.0M10 out without announcement yet! Jun 30, 2007
  • Use ORM For Better Performance Jun 12, 2007
  • People Using Spring, EJBs Don't Know Basic JDBC May 30, 2007
  • Wizards Bad For Productivity May 16, 2007
  • Less Productive With Maven2. Apr 29, 2007
  • Java Concurrency In Practice Book Review Feb 14, 2007
  • Why are you not using Entity EJB 1.1? Feb 7, 2007
  • Social (Web) Revelation: Tags Are Lame Jan 16, 2007
  • 1 year of mac mini - the deception point Jan 8, 2007
  • Tired Of Bad Singletons Jan 4, 2007
  • Declaring Your Logger - No Problem Dec 29, 2006
  • Very Quick Django Trial -> Bye Bye Django Dec 21, 2006
  • A Proof That JavaScript Sucks. Dec 15, 2006
  • Building With Ant + Maven Antlib? Dec 14, 2006
  • The Hibernate Network Proxy, A Dumb Idea. Dec 4, 2006
  • Workaround When Eclipse Fucks Off With CVS Nov 28, 2006
  • Maven: Game Over, Try Again Nov 24, 2006
  • How JDepend Changed My Java Packaging Oct 13, 2006
  • You Know IOException? Think Again! Sep 14, 2006
  • Good Software Books - 2006 version Sep 11, 2006
  • I Get Spring Aug 23, 2006
  • Java Serialization vs .NET Serialization - Java Perverse? Aug 22, 2006
  • 5 Minutes of Google Spreadsheets Aug 17, 2006
  • Procedural Programming in an OO language Aug 8, 2006
  • Back To Real Java, Bye Bye J2EE Jul 26, 2006
  • Moving weekly Javablog stats to a new blog Jun 26, 2006
  • JSF Was Too Hard for Experienced Developers Jun 23, 2006
  • On EJB Restrictions - Can You Open a Socket? Jun 19, 2006
  • Non Blocking with Traditional Java IO - On the Use of InputStream.available() and Thread.sleep() Jun 8, 2006
  • Is Java Flawed - a big advantage of Python/Ruby/(your favorite interpreted language) Jun 2, 2006
  • Using Linux to Recover Fucked Up Windows Data Jun 1, 2006
  • Java HTML Parsing Example With htmlparser May 30, 2006
  • Top 10 Most Read Last Week On Javablogs.com, Week 19 May 16, 2006
  • First Steps With EhCache May 4, 2006
  • Null vs. Errors Apr 26, 2006
  • Algorithms in Java (Third Edition) Book Review Apr 26, 2006
  • Caching HTTP Responses in Java Apr 19, 2006
  • Javablogs.com 2005 Top 20 Apr 18, 2006
  • How To Use Java With Blogger: A Tutorial Apr 18, 2006
  • Last week Javablogs.com top 10 Apr 18, 2006
  • Web Services No Better Than CORBA? Apr 10, 2006
  • Is your UML Composition French or American? Apr 7, 2006
  • Are UML Aggregation and Composition Good Concepts? Apr 4, 2006
  • SOA and B. Meyer Mar 31, 2006
  • Tired Of 'My 10 Best XXX' Blog Posts Mar 30, 2006
  • Bilinear Gaussian Lanczos? Downsampling! Mar 17, 2006
  • Getting Started With DOM, XOM, DOM4J by Parsing an RSS Feed - An Experience Review Mar 17, 2006
  • Bad JDK Design Example Mar 16, 2006
  • Current Popular Subjects In Java Blogs Mar 15, 2006
  • Non Fiction Books (Mostly Software Programming) Before 2003 Mar 15, 2006
  • How Mac Os X Made Me Discover a Bug in my Java Prog Mar 14, 2006
  • Del.icio.us Firefox Toolbar Update Mar 13, 2006
  • Why did Netscape choose Javascript?!? Mar 9, 2006
  • New Mac Mini Mar 7, 2006
  • Features That Ruby Lacks and Java Has Feb 10, 2006
  • What Is 'Modern' Java Compilation? Feb 7, 2006
  • RMI Nightmares - Non Interoperability Jan 31, 2006
  • What Is Clustering About – An answer to Spring is not designed for scalability Jan 16, 2006
  • My Dream Job Jan 12, 2006
  • Ogg better than MPC and MP3 - AAC crap Jan 4, 2006
  • What's Your Favorite Design Pattern Dec 27, 2005
  • Professional Portal Development Book Review Dec 27, 2005
  • IBM Websphere Portal Strategy Dec 7, 2005
  • Portlets in an AJAX World Nov 29, 2005
  • Good Software Books Nov 17, 2005
  • Apple Rumors and X86 first move Nov 16, 2005
  • 7 Years Later: Still EJBs Nov 7, 2005
  • Job Hunting: Interview Madness Nov 4, 2005
  • Does Eclipse Rot The Brain? Oct 27, 2005
  • Orkut Statistics and Blog Evolution Oct 18, 2005
  • Spring Books Roundup Updated Oct 10, 2005
  • Spring Books Roundup Oct 10, 2005
  • Interesting Plug-In Framework - DPML Transit Sep 29, 2005
  • Java Puzzlers - Can you figure this out? Sep 28, 2005
  • Is Prolog Better Suited Than SQL? Sep 26, 2005
  • When California Was An Island Sep 21, 2005
  • Currying - A Very Interesting Use Of Generics Sep 16, 2005
  • On J2EE Portability Accross Application Servers Sep 13, 2005
  • JavaBlogs Weekly Top 10 and Java HTML parsing Sep 12, 2005
  • Spam In Blog Comments Sep 10, 2005
  • JavaBlogs Daily Analysis Sep 9, 2005
  • Commons-Beanutils Is Slow Sep 7, 2005
  • Generate your RSS feed in Java Sep 5, 2005
  • The Evil Port 80 Sep 1, 2005
  • I Need Another DB Framework! Aug 23, 2005
  • Inside the Java Virtual Machine Aug 18, 2005
  • Firefox Shortcut URL as Command Line for the Web Aug 16, 2005
  • Hibernate Criteria API vs HQL Overhead Aug 10, 2005
  • How to become a JavaRSS member on blogger.com Aug 5, 2005
  • Java is more productive than Ruby/Rails Jul 26, 2005
  • féminisme et statistiques Jul 21, 2005
  • Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Lua, Java, C++ benchmark Jul 20, 2005
  • Fowler On Your Future: editing the abstract representation of a program Jul 19, 2005
  • Jython instead of Ant: sample code Jul 16, 2005
  • Java development without Ant Jul 12, 2005