Brian Goetz
Company: Quiotix CorpAuthor Bio:
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for the past 15 years. He is a Principal Consultant at Quiotix, a software development and consulting firm located in Los Altos, California, and he serves on several JCP Expert Groups. See Brian's published and upcoming articles in popular industry publications. Contact Brian at brian@quiotix.com.
Tutorials written by Brian Goetz:
A Brief History Of Garbage Collection
The Java language may be the most widely used programming language to rely on garbage collection, but it is by no means the first. Garbage collection has been an integral part of many programming languages, including Lisp, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Haskell, ML, Scheme, and Modula-3, and has been in use since the early 1960s.
Thursday, 22nd January 2004
Java Theory and Practice: Anatomy of a Flawed Microbenchmark
Software engineers are notoriously obsessed, sometimes excessively, with performance. While sometimes performance is the most important requirement in a software project, as it might be when developing protocol routing software for a high-speed switch, most of the time performance needs to be balanced against other requirements, such as functionality, reliability, maintainability, extensibility, time to market, and other business and engineering considerations.
Wednesday, 27th April 2005
Java Theory and Practice: Generics Gotchas
Generic types, added in JDK 5.0, are a significant enhancement to type safety in the Java language. However, some aspects of generics may seem confusing, or even downright bizarre, to first-time users. In this month's Java theory and practice, Brian Goetz examines the common pitfalls that ensnare first-time users of generics.
Wednesday, 23rd March 2005
Make Database Queries Without the Database
When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail (as the old saying goes). But what if you don't have a hammer? Well, sometimes, you can borrow a hammer. Then, hammer in hand, you can bang the virtual nails with the borrowed hammer, return it, and no one is the wiser. In this month's Java theory and practice, Brian Goetz demonstrates how data manipulation hammers such as SQL or XQuery can be applied to ad-hoc data.
Thursday, 14th July 2005