Following on from the talk I gave on why Java is bad for your brain at Barcamp I thought I’d dig out some of my old blog posts and present them here – try and explain the argument (which is more of a feeling of disquiet tha anything else) better.

download mind map here (save as)

I tried to embed the map in an applet – but the downloaded applet does’t work and locks the site up. There is a Flash reader but I lost the will to live Java, eh?

You ca get freemind here. 

Defensive programming

http://francis.blog-city.com/what_defensive_programming_is_and_isnt_logging_the_right_t.htm

This one’s about ‘C’:

http://francis.blog-city.com/at_the_feet_of_the_master.htm

Java is the new ‘C’ parts 1 & 2 

http://francis.blog-city.com/at_the_feet_of_the_master_1.htm

http://francis.blog-city.com/at_the_feet_of_the_master_1htm.htm 

J2EE is incoherent

http://francis.blog-city.com/cohesive_libraries.htm 

Java schools

http://francis.blog-city.com/java_schools.htm 

Java as a text processing language – note the comment about merely trying to ope a file

http://francis.blog-city.com/java_as_a_text_processing_language.htm 

Java and XML

http://francis.blog-city.com/java_finding_nodes_with_xpath_and_how_to_dump_out_xml_dom_as.htm