http://tech.puredanger.com Alex Miller's technical blog Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:55:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past Thursday we had our monthly Lambda Lounge meeting. If you're interested, you can find info from my talk on the Sun research language Project Fortress here: Slides Video And you can find info from Scott Bale's talk on Fan here: Slides Video If you're interested in catching future video, you can catch the ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/07/05/lambda-july-videos/ This month at the Lambda Lounge (Thursday, July 2nd, 6 pm), we will be bringing you two NEW languages that start with F. First, I will be introducing you to a research language called Fortress aimed at people doing scientific computation on large (peta-size) systems. It is a ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/06/29/fan-fortress-lounge/ One thing that I haven't found time to write about yet is a hands-on lab I did at JavaOne about Project Fortress. It was a very short overview about the language and then a series of hands-on exercises to get you cracking on the language. Best of all, ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/06/29/fortress-rendering/ This week the whole Terracotta engineering gang from all over the world is in San Francisco for Terracotta dev week. We try to do this a couple times a year and it's pretty intense. The activities officially go from 8 am to 8 pm every day but it's ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/06/18/terracotta-dev-week/ My colleague Chris Dennis, sent this puzzler around today: [source:java] import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.HashSet; import java.util.Map; import java.util.Set; import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap; public class EntrySetSize { public static void main(String[] args) { printSetSize(new ConcurrentHashMap()); printSetSize(new HashMap()); } private static void printSetSize(Map map) { map.put("hello", "world"); ... http://tech.puredanger.com/2009/06/11/collections-puzzler/