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Thank you for copy-and-pasting, verbatim, this blog entry

The link would have been sufficient (oh wait, the link was given -- in the first post!)

Here's a not so rosy picture of this development.

http://www.jroller.com/page/fate/20050507#death_to _apache

I move to nominate the Bile Blog.

signed the MaD HuNGaRIaN

Do I hear a second to that motion?

http://www.petitiononline.com/google45/petition.ht ml/

This petition was created to ask Google to offer services for a network file storage system or other similar internet/network share. Google has made great headway with its very successful multi-gigabyte google email service

http://www.jroller.com/page/berlinbrown/20050415#r equest_for_google_network_file/ Support the cause!!

Trails has been mentioned earlier as the Java copy of RoR. You will probably find the following video pretty interesting -- it demonstrates how quickly one can develop an application with Trails. It is a part of Chris Nelson's weblog.

If there are radio shows you like but the time slot is not convenient, record it to mp3 and listen whenever.

This is what I did and I describe how to do it here

Well, isn't it obvious why Eclipse and Netbeas suck? Because the BileBlog said so! Sorry, I'm too lazy to find a quote on netbeans.

Here are my comments on this topic, FWIW.

The best thing about Mono is that it shows just what a monumental screw up Java has been. Java (Sun's version at least) is a veritable HOWNOTTO of virtual machines and class libraries. Also the recent GNOME tests showing how much memory Mono used for apps compared to C/C++ and Java were amazing. Mono was pretty svelt... but Java. Yeeessssh. Everyone has experienced just what a bloated hog Java is... now there are actual figures for it. Astonishing. No wonder people haye it so much.

Open Source might not exactly be a "career path." But it is, imho, an enabler - something that you can use to launch a business and, hopefully, profit from.

here is what I had to say in response to one comment somebody else made, regarding making money / feeding the family, and open-source.

This IT Managers Journal article, or this book: Innovation Happens Elsewhere : Open Source as Business Strategy are also of interest on this topic, I think.

that Paul Graham is a tedious windbag

OK... I refute this articles rather silly ideas in this blog entry: http://jroller.com/page/murphee/20050113#xml_futur e_of_source_files

It looks like we're just about to hire an employee who has no college degree. He does, however, have decades of experience in the industry from microcontroller programming to webapp development. He also has a very strong drive to continously learn.

All that said, he will probably get a lesser salary than what he would have, had he obtained an applicable college degree.

On a side note, we're still looking to fill another position or two, so if you think you have what it takes, check out the job description.

You can also read mine blog tooo :)


http://jroller.com/page/mmansoor/

Before you put too much faith in "unbreakable" JVMs, you should read the comments about Sun's JVM source code on Slava Pestov's Weblog: "HotSpot source code is a bad joke". scary!

The Bile Blog has plenty to say about it.

I think Maven may work if you don't mind drinking a bit of kool aid and structuring your project around your build tool, rather than the other way round.

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I agree totally... also see my Open Source Java FAQ:
http://www.jroller.com/page/murphee/20040426
Where I dismiss similar rumors.

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Kind off weird statements about JITs... Why would Sun avoid writing 1000 differen JITs? All current JVMs feature either JITs or the superior dynamic compilers (which use runtime profiling to be able to generate better optimized code than JITs). Javas bytecode has an additional advantage over the limited MS IL: it *can* be interpreted (one of MS' big marketing arguments is that the MS IL code is optimized for JIT compilation... and they try to sell this as an advantage... of course, totally ignoring the fact that this keeps .NET from being run on constricted environments where JIT compilation is not an option. These environments, though, can easily allow a Java Bytecode interpreter).

murphee

Why Maven Sucks

The bile you linked is just a reminder so no one forgets that it indeed still sucks.

Not everyone seems to be fond of Maven. This guy lists both pros and cons with Maven, but lands on the negative side.

I havent used Maven myself, but since this was mostly a very positive announcement, I guess it cant hurt to point to another point of view.

Maven may be "neat" to some, but it also has real issues...

They are missing SnipSnap, an fantastically easy to install java GPLd blog/wiki server. Try it out at snipsnap.org.

OK, done. See my latest web log entry. Individual employees have admitted their guilt in e-mail, and the bulk of this entry is airing that e-mail. -Mike Spille

When is the last freaking time you actually paid attntion to and responded to any anoynmous poster in any technical disucssion? This isn't "anonymous coward" style anonymous, it's the creation of a plethora of accounts that have real-sounding names and participate in real conversations (sometimes with themselves.) For more information, refer to Rickard Oberg's blog and Mike Spille's blog. (BTW - Rickard is one of the authors of JBoss.) (Just in case you didn't figure it out from my login, I'm the Cameron Purdy that purportedly co-authored the article with Rickard.) Peace.

When is the last freaking time you actually paid attntion to and responded to any anoynmous poster in any technical disucssion? This isn't "anonymous coward" style anonymous, it's the creation of a plethora of accounts that have real-sounding names and participate in real conversations (sometimes with themselves.) For more information, refer to Rickard Oberg's blog and Mike Spille's blog. (BTW - Rickard is one of the authors of JBoss.) (Just in case you didn't figure it out from my login, I'm the Cameron Purdy that purportedly co-authored the article with Rickard.) Peace.

Yeah, new Blogger users are not getting GMail invitations, but check Blogger traffic numbers, which show the Google / GMail / Invitation effect, a la Orkut.

Note that the BileBlog has many, many vicious postings on various Java and open source topics - Maven, XDoclet, "J3EE", etc.

In some cases, though, as they say - "it only hurts because it's true".

When the hell will all those people just curl up and die? I'm so heartily sick of that mustachioed hippie free-love deviant ESR spouting his OSS filth. When will he realise that he's made all the money he possibly can from it, and it's time to just shut up and move along now?

Is boring only when you are doing stable, proven things with it. I can have a little fun sometimes but my customers may not apreciate it.
But judge by yourself, look a small sample of what's coming. How does this compares with perl and how much clearer it seems? less the comments, of course :-)

Don't just swallow all the hype. Think twice before bying in to child of marketing that is Java.

Java: Language of Tommorow
Java: Failure or Crime
many anti-Java rants on The Bile Blog
Sun itself won't use Java internally

Amen.

/. Java fanatics wake up and smell the coffee, namely:

Java: Language of Tommorow
Java: Failure or Crime
the many rants on bileblog

> I don't want to start a flame war, but do you think that the
>pressure of .Net pushed some of these features through th > at Sun seemed to be holding off on for the longest time.
> Such as enums, generics, boxing, foreach loop, etc.

The only feature that Sun held back was Generics;
the others (for loop, boxing, enums, varargs...) haven't been
discussed before; Some of them were probably influenced by C# (especially auto boxing);

>Just a question that I have had, because I never heard
> anything about these features comming into Java until
> after .Net made it's comming out in 2002.
.NET was first hyped (er, sorry: I meant. introduced)
in 2000

with C# and other languages for it.

murphee

What would be better? I like this rant on Subversion. Most of the other version control systems don't have a lot of 3rd party support. I like WinCVS, tortoise, Eclipse intergration, ant, etc.

Only if you're an inexperienced Linux user.

If you install it, it doesn't work, and you don't have time/interest to google for answers, you never become an experienced Linux user. I tend to agree with Hani's view of linux.

Recently I blogged about my ancient 8086 laptop.

Here's the full text, along with some pics.

It still works, and after having written that I even boot it from time to time, just to play some Lemmings. Oh, the memories...