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| + | The ''NetBeans API & Maven community'' (e.g. me and Miloš Kleint) is proud to announce the immediate availability of [[netbeans:SigTest|sigtest-maven-plugin]]. [[SignatureTests|Signature testing]] has never been easier: just follow the tips on the [[netbeans:SigTest|SigTest]] main page and you'll never make an incompatible change since then! | ||
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| + | Read [[TheAPIBook]] and let NetBeans [[netbeans:SigTest|SigTest]] [[Maven]] plugin look over you and make you great [[API]] designer! Enjoy! | ||
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| + | --[[User:JaroslavTulach|JaroslavTulach]] 17:52, 15 July 2016 (UTC) | ||
==== Boost Your Career: Become an API Tester! ==== | ==== Boost Your Career: Become an API Tester! ==== | ||
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Practical Design
Test your APIs Easily with Maven SigTest Plugin
The NetBeans API & Maven community (e.g. me and Miloš Kleint) is proud to announce the immediate availability of sigtest-maven-plugin. Signature testing has never been easier: just follow the tips on the SigTest main page and you'll never make an incompatible change since then!
Read TheAPIBook and let NetBeans SigTest Maven plugin look over you and make you great API designer! Enjoy!
--JaroslavTulach 17:52, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
Boost Your Career: Become an API Tester!
Motto: the easiest way to learn something about a code base is to fix bugs. The easiest way to learn something about design API is to join an APIUsabilityStudy!
There are many reasons why you should care about the Truffle framework (please check the changelog of just released version 0.14 to learn more), but the most important one is related to API Design and your career:
I need API testers! I need to organize a usability study of the Truffle API and I need developers to perform it. How can you help?
We have prepared five easy tasks: use Truffle to invoke a code in Ruby, JavaScript, R, exchange data between Java and one of those languages using Truffle interop, etc. In addition to that we ask you five questions: What did you like/dislike? What should we improve, etc.? Overall, the whole study should be easy and entertaining. You can learn something new (e.g. Truffle) and even earn some money.
Originally I wanted to repeat the previous success of netbeans:Html4JavaUXStudy2014, but the then used service is no longer available due to small demand. Understandable, but a shame! I know the demand for API related courses is low (I do one once a few years), but it is always very valuable to seek an advice when it comes to API - the on-line API usability study was really great idea! Alas, we need to organize it ourselves.
Are you interested to help us? If your want to be an API tester for a few hours, please write to my email practical@apidesign.org and I share more details. Thanks in advance!
--JaroslavTulach 08:13, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
Improve Javadoc of Your API: Stop showing crappy code samples!
I've just finished integration of Codesnippet Javadoc Doclet into Truffle API and the result is great: we found out that one of the samples (actually the first one that I tried) was not compilable!
If you care about Javadoc of your API, consider using Codesnippet doclet too!
Btw. it surprises me I am the first one who created something like this! Showing snippets in documentation is so common. But maybe it is the same issue as with TheAPIBook - it was the first book that ensured all the code samples are compilable by extracting them from real source code (using similar infrastructure as Codesnippet doclet provides). And it worked - while Errata of every book is full of comments about incorrect code samples, there is none for TheAPIBook.
Do your API a favor: use Codesnippet Javadoc Doclet and make your code samples real!
--JaroslavTulach 15:59, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
Java Modularity in the Context of JavaScript
Obfuscation per library is quite common in JavaScript and it results in faster download times, sharing modules between different applications and easier processing of the obfuscated files. Shouldn't something similar be done in Java?
Yes, it should. And it has been done! Here is description of design and implementation of Obfuscation per JAR file for Java (in a [[Bck2Brwsr|browser).
--JaroslavTulach 04:10, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
ConfigurationObject Pattern in Java
ConfigurationObject pattern is quite common in many JavaScript libraries. Do you know what is the best way to express it in Java? Check my essay that compares four different ways and analyses their impact on API designer and especially API users.
--JaroslavTulach 12:44, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Final interface. Finally Done Right!
Maybe there is nobody interested in final interface API Design Pattern anymore! Now when there is JDK8 with extender methods people may always mitigate bad design (e.g. using final interface at all) by adding methods with default bodies. Still I found it important to cover this pattern in my API Design Patterns Collection.
Let's me guide you through the short and incomplete history of final interface design pattern with small excursion to JDK's own itches and specifics of designing for OSGi to finally describe how to do final interface pattern right!
Let you find such description useful!
--JaroslavTulach 16:53, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
Impossible. Part II.
Everybody understands threading is complex. Yet almost everyone believes that with good methodology it is possible to do threading right. Well, it is not. There is no theory to eliminate deadlocks. Achieving proper threading is impossible. Still people keep asking for it. When you tell them it is impossible, you may get fired. Just like me few years ago! Here is my story.
--JaroslavTulach 19:23, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
Publish Bck2Brwsr Libraries as Maven Artifacts
Bck2BrwsrLibraries can now be published as Maven Artifacts which greatly reduces edit/compile/run time.
--JaroslavTulach 05:21, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
Bck2Brwsr and Images as Resources
Blob URL support has been implemented for forthcoming version of Bck2Brwsr 0.12. Now you can easily access images packaged as resources in your JAR files and obtain their browser valid URL.
--JaroslavTulach 01:19, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
Impossible. Part I.
Explaining that something is impossible is, well impossible! Here is a link to one viral video and one story from my computer science student years, which is so true, I would almost cry. In case you find my impossible story interesting, let me know. I have at least two more on the same impossible topic!
--JaroslavTulach 14:25, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Lambdas Go Bck2Brwsr!
Bck2Brwsr 0.10 has just been released. The most important thing to note is that it handles JDK8's lambdas. See the illustrative video:
The JDK emulation library is still based on JDK7, so don't expect your streams & co. code to run. I'll update to JDK8 after JavaOne2014. Meanwhile enjoy lambdas in your own APIs!
--JaroslavTulach 17:48, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
Use NetBeans to Deploy Everywhere!
Client Java everywhere is now possible thanks to essential part of DukeScript - its capability to deploy to almost any device on the planet (that can render HTML). One can configure everything in an IDE independent way, but the best way to start is to get your instance of NetBeans 8.0 and follow few easy steps described in the official DukeScript getting started document.
--JaroslavTulach 11:09, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
MineSweeper on iOS
Thanks to IBrwsr I managed to run my favorite game on my iPad! Why don't you write applications that run on every device, yet?
--JaroslavTulach 14:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
TeaVM Can Execute DukeScript Applications!
Alexey just released his first version of TeaVM. Congratulation!
Well, everyone now writes virtual machines that run in a browser, but TeaVM is special - rather than separating and playing on its own sand field - Alexey decided to speak DukeScript. As a result, the same application can now be deployed to Bck2Brwsr and TeaVM and we can compare which virtual machine is better - or at least play minesweeper 1 and minesweeper 2.
Enjoy and give DukeScript (the JavaScript, the way it was meant to be) a try!
--JaroslavTulach 14:27, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Avoid Synchronization Problems
Don't let your objects escape from your methods! As suggested on page 193.
--JaroslavTulach 16:24, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Changes: HTML for Java, videos and hosting
I'd like to announce few changes related to apidesign.org site.
First of all, the Knockout4Java is now a NetBeans subproject and yesterday I managed to release its first bits as a stable version 0.7 - follow three simple steps to see how powerful Java/HTML user interface can be.
The other change is that I am migrating the whole website to new hosting infrastructure. Sources are up, mediawiki as well. However I still need to recover mailing lists, etc. If you find something that is not working and should, please Talkback. Thanks in advance.
One thing you don't have to complain is lack of videos - this is what one gets when using a cloud service! My uploaded screencasts had been found inappropriate and were deleted - after four years of being OK! Should I upload the backup copies (that I can find) elsewhere or rather host it myself?
--JaroslavTulach 08:24, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
Can Deserialization Change Value of a Final Field?
Deserialization can change value of a final field. See the code snippet to understand how. 1st lesson learned at JavaOne2013.
--JaroslavTulach 16:58, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
The Art of Writing Equals in Object Oriented Languages
Do you think you know how to write equals? Are you sure? Take your time. Still sure? Check this example to verify.
--JaroslavTulach 08:53, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
Bck2Brwsr Goes Server Side: Run the Same Code on Server and Client!
I'd like to introduce my small contribution to Jersey project. It provides (yet another, but this time very lightweight) converter from Java to JSON and back. Together with Bck2Brwsr or FXBrwsr you can now smoothly execute the same Java code on client as well as on your server.
--JaroslavTulach 12:45, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
Introducing Knockout4Java
Knockout4Java takes the best of two words: The type safety of Java and Knockout.js ability to alter any HTML page in any browser. Write your models in Java (using JSON4Brwsr library) and render them as HTML with the help of Knockout4Java!
--JaroslavTulach 21:32, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
Introducing FXBrwsr
FXBrwsr is an attempt to give people the rendering power of HTML (via Knockout.js) and the benefits of HotSpot Java VM. As the Twitter example shows, it is then easy to deploy the application to run Bck2Brwsr.
--JaroslavTulach 09:25, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
Javadoc for Coding for Your Browser Published!
I've just set a job up to generate Bck2BrwsrJavadoc. Anyone wants to design a library for the browser?
--JaroslavTulach 09:11, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
C++ May Not Be As Bad As Thought!
Do you remember my recent post about object oriented encapsulation and performance? It was written in a response to an article that claimed C is much better than C++. There in given example nicely illustrates that by giving up on encapsulation one can implement more effective linked list. In my recent post I managed to prove that by using traits, one can easily get the same performance while keeping encapsulation in modern object oriented language. Only one question remained: Can one do the same with C++ templates?
I am glad to report we have an answer with a sample code. There is a way to write generic template (well two of them) and orchestrate them in a way that keeps encapsulation and maintains the C linked list performance. C++ is not as bad as I thought.
Last note related to this incident (influenced by book I am currently reading). There are tons of comments attached to the original article yet most of them are really shallow. Usually along the line of that is a non-sense!, use STL! or C rules, I knew it!. I guess this has something to do with Thinking, Fast and Slow: people were provoked to react instantly by seeing a topic they had already have an opinion about. Without really giving the issue a though, they replied using fast thinking.
It took me a weekend to come up with the trait solution and we needed about a week to polish the C++ sample code. Looks like a little bit of slowness can worth tons of fast made opinions. But that is for another story - first of all I need to finish reading Thinking, Fast and Slow book.
--JaroslavTulach 07:40, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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