Archive for 14th June 2006

Nick Hodges Becomes Product Manager of Delphi

June 14, 2006, 10:15 pm

Nick Hodges has been named Product Manager of Delphi at “DevCo,” the to-be-named, to-be-formalized spin-off of Borland’s languages division. His blog.

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Learning Lisp or Ruby

June 14, 2006, 10:00 pm

My favorite technical book of the past year was Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Believe me, if it could convince me to return to Lisp, it’s a well-written book.

However, all the cool kids are learning Ruby. Ruby has some Lisp-like flexibility in comparison to more popular languages like Java and C#, but it doesn’t have Lisp’s elegance / terseness of syntax. If you want to learn Ruby, the best book is Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide, Second Edition.

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Can’t We All Just Interoperate, Part 2

June 14, 2006, 2:00 am

Success! I can access Tablet SDK functionality from Java. Rather than use COM, my original tactic, I did what I joked about: used C++/CLI so that the call is Java->Unmanaged C++->C (Win32)->Managed C++! Pretty funny, but not all that hard to follow in the source code. I have to say, I’m going to guess I’m the first person to write code to convert a jstring into a char* and pass that into a gcnew System::String!

Look for an article on DevX by the end of the month.

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