Sam Pullara

Why your new JVM build tool is making things worse, aka use Maven to execute your build

There are a few principles that I would like the ecosystem of build tool developers to adopt so we can all get on the same page. Here they are in priority order:

Mustache is logic-less but the logic has to go somewhere

As the developer of mustache.java I get a lot of feature requests to break the mustache language and add real logic to the templates. In virtually every case the reason the developer wanted the functionality was because they were…

What is new and interesting in JDK 7?

I wanted to document the most interesting features of JDK 7 here, for my own gratification and to make a place where you can contribute your great finds:

• Invokedynamic bytecode for doing runtime binding of callsites