At the technical panel discucssion on Friday morning at Devoxx there was the interesting question “Does Oracle’s corporate culture stand in the way of success for Java?”. Even more interesting was the answer from either Brian Goetz or Mark Reinold (don’t remember), both big wigs at Oracle… “I think Java became a success despite Sun’s […]
The two keynotes at Devoxx 2011 yesterday by Henrik Ståhl and Cameron Purdy from Oracle and today by Google’s Tim Bray couldn’t have been more different. If that is all Oracle’s got to bring to the table then I fear they’re in big trouble… While Henrik Ståhl showed at least some passion and inspiration (neatly […]
In most programming languages the regular expression pattern to find the digit ‘1’ surrounded by ‘;’ and other digits would be something like [;\d]*1[;\d]* So, the pseudo character class “; or digit” is matched zero or more times, then the digit 1 is matched followed by zero or more “; or digit”s. A few examples: […]