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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Java Map interface impl for composition

Sunday, February 1, 2009

One of the mantras of object-oriented programming is that you should always favor composition over inheritance. However, it's always annoying when you want to implement Map but don't want to copy-paste-edit a bunch of methods that are just pass-through to the underlying map. This is code to do that, so I won't be [...]

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Books, January 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel — I've literally been reading this book for 9 years. This was the book I learned Java from many years ago when I was a student, through the graciousness of Eckel making it available for free electronically. I accidentally bought two copies, so I now have one [...]

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