Q: How do I create my own pair of mutable and immutable classes similar to String and StringBuffer ? A: Immutability in a “weak” sense (for lack of a better term) means creating a temporary read-only ...

In response to my recent blog posting Immutable Java Objects, Matt brought up a good point of discussion related to making Java classes truly immutable by declaring them as final so that they cannot ...

Anonymous types are a new feature of Visual Basic 9 (2008). They provide a quick and easy way to define simple classes for holding values. Both VB 9 and C# 3.0 provide support for anonymous types, but ...

A little while ago, I gave Fedora Silverblue a try, and it felt really futuristic. By that, I mean that it was my first taste of what an "immutable" desktop is. Right now, operating systems like ...

If you've used Windows for long enough, you'll know that it tends to develop "crud" over the months. It accumulates from a ...