Exploring Kotlin, writing a simple spell checker

Avisi op 16 April 2012

In my last blog, I talked about exploring Kotlin, a JVM language in development by JetBrains. In this blog, I'll walk through a larger piece of Kotlin code. Spell checker The program we're talking about is a simple spell checker. It reads a dictionary of words from a file (/usr/share/dict/words) into a set. Then it reads a sentence from...

EJB 3.1: Concurrency Management and (Avoiding) Synchronization

Avisi op 29 March 2012

At Avisi we use a custom-built EJB 3-based application for scheduling and running (automated) regression tests. This involves a queue from which objects are taken. These objects contain metadata describing the tests to execute. I won't go into detail as to why we aren't using Apache ActiveMQ (or a similar library) for this purpose, but I can...

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