I worked in Borland, when it was indeed Borland. Great company, you could not find another place with so many fine minds. What is called Borland today is not the company that people knew. The management stole the name, connected it with mindless, buzzword-rich nonsense and moved the headquesters from Scotts Valley to Texas. They were selling nothing and that's what MicroFocus is buying: nothing.
The core of Borland's business, compilers and IDEs was spun off as CodeGear, recently purchased by Embarcadero Software. CodeGear is still located in Scotts Valley with many of the original developers in the group. Great people with a passion for tool development. It's not a coincidence that Borland, the travesty, has been losing money at incredible speed after CodeGear was gone. The only part of the business that made sense, that generated revenues, was let go by a management simply unable to understand what a compiler is. That the name Borland, which was synonym of innovation and "barbarian" spirit, is now associated with the leading name in a technology that was an embarrassment in the 80s, COBOL, is a shame that makes me cringe to no end. Remember, this is not Borland, the real Borland, the one that brought us such gems as Turbo Pascal, C++ builder, Paradox, JBuilder etc, and that in general taught Microsoft how to write IDEs, is called CodeGear. The company mentioned in this article, is a travesty and a sham.
Not much to add, some people should just get their head out of their asses and look around a little more often. What we need is apps that we can run everywhere, with near-unlimited storage and no network need. If I'm on location in the death valley, or in some isolated location and I need to put together a rought cut of footage that we just shot, I don't want to depend on a internet connection. AfterEffects barely runs up to speed on today's laptops, make it go faster not slower. I'm sorry, I love Adobe products but this is simply stupid.
Some people suggest that you always hate the top dog. I developed my dislike for Microsoft in the early days, around 1986-87. What made MS dislikeable at that time is still valid today. MS has a track record of ripping other people's ideas off and making it look like it's their own idea. All this while keeping their products mediocre. Look at the Basic interpreter. While Borland had Turbo Pascal, a complete IDE with sophisticated error reporting, editing and incredibly fast compiler (TP 3.0), MS Basic was this command line based sluggish tool with not even half the sophistication of Turbo Pascal. It remained in that way for years. Their C++ compliace took a long time to develop. Their sloppines in coding has kept absurd ideas like the drive letters alive for a long time. They could have just copied the Unix concept of one single root but no, they had to try their own way and today we are still labelling drives and partitions with single letters. In 1995 they woke up and realized that the Internet/Web was going to be huge. If it was left to MS they would never adopted it. They were forced by the competition. MS never invents anything and systematically drives much smarter componies out of business. There's nothing to like. Windows, still today, doesn't have a scripting language. Why? Notbody is going to pay for it so MS has no incentive. Their command line interpreter, command.com or cmd.exe, is pretty much the same that it was in the DOS days. Apple has added Terminal to Mac OS and keeps updating and improving it. MS is really a sorry company with no creativity and a piss-poor atitude. That's why it's so easy to hate.
At least that's what I'm doing:). Of course I had to quit my work at Borland, start my own company, program my site with Linux/MySQL/PHP and run the company for a few years. At the same I got to build and ride a few Choppers (not the RC models, the motorcycles). It worked. Now it's time to move on. Another career is on the horizon...
Good conclusions but sad that we have to realize this years later. Look at "Delicious Library" for a clear example of how an application becomes popular
That people want to watch that crap is bad enough. You're telling me that in addition to waste their lives on lame Japanese cartoons they also "invest" time in traslating them? No wander our society is in the crapper. After they get the subpoena they should get a hint and get a life.
I understand the reson why Dainese is working on this (money) but if this appeals to you then you should give up riding completely. Nobody said that this was for wimps. Get a good leather jacket, chaps, boots and gloves and enjoy the ride. Leave the airbag to the Michelin man.
Simply don't get married. It's a scam to start with, you don't need it and it's a freaking life insurance for whoever will whine louder when the party is over. Remember, there's no divorce. Forget what they told you, divorce is not easy and you'll be stuck paying alymony for the rest of your life to a person that you hate. Think I'm exagerating ? No, I'm just one of the 50% -60% of people that have been involved in this scam. Give her a ring if you feel like it but don't do it because of the rules of engagement. The worst think you can do in life is to act like a puppet for somebody else profit. There's no user manual for life, write your own !
1) Plenty of languages that do what Java does and in many ways better (Perl, PHP come to mind) 2) Ivory-tower design plagued Java for years. Still today it's very hard to control external processes or work on "real life" entities like the file system. The shell language can do things that Java can't. 3) Even with primitive types handling of data in Java is cumbersome compared to other languages. 4) The JVM is really an attempt on rewriting an new OS. We have an pseudo-OS on top of an OS. Should we focus on writing useful software instead ? 5) Speed might have improved but Java is still one of the most memory-hungry languages out there. 6) Elliotte has written a lot of non-sense starting from the first book I reviewed at the timeof the release of Java 1 and he still continues. Proposals like 4-byte char and use of XML everywhere are the clear demonstration of the ivory-tower mindset of some Java people. It's about time we forget about these jerk-offs and start writing software that is usefull, optimized, and to the point.
>For safety, move to Monaco (omnipresent police, security cameras everywhere).
Well, the cameras would not make me feel free but under surveillance. Freedom to me, among other things, means to do what I want without anybody snooping around.
>For quality of life... The obvious choice is
>France of course.:) Best food, beautiful
>country.
Absolutely overratted. Italy is a much better choice. Better food, better wine, warmer in the south:)
This is nonsense. The burden of hiring an H1 worker is so high that companies would gladly do otherwise if they could. Not only the cost is high but there's the need to keep immigration-specialized personnel, worry about the employees situation all the time and in general go through a lot of hard work because of bizantine laws. In addition I want to break a mith: many H1 employees are payed the same salaries of US-born people. To get an H1 visa you either have to have a degree or (my case) equivalent work experience (4 years for each year of University). You don't get that kind of knowledge from a "third-world" country. Many of us had a pretty good life in our original country, without the hassle to be "hostage workers" for 6 or more years. The INS is ruining the lives of thousands of people and creating a lot of hardship for high-tech companies. Try to put yourself in the shoes of somebody that left his/her own country, had to learn to speak a foreign language quickly and at the same time being productive in the competitive world of the Silicon Valley. Trust me on this one, immigrants work much harder than native people.
After busting our butts for 6 years we believe we earned the right to stay, especially because we played by the rules and applied for Green Card in time. The problem here is that, althoug the INS is taking more than three years to process a green card application, we have to pay for INS inneficiency. We don't ask for special favors, just to be allowed to stay in the country where we live and pay taxes while the INS takes its sweet time to process the applications that have been filed following INS guidelines.
Under the current laws INS is saying: we screwed up but you have to pay.
'scuse me but this is simply criminal and unfair.
The fact that the TV service here in the US is astonishly crappy and we pay an absurd amount of money for it was bad enough. If this story is true, Tivo, together with WebTV is geared to accomplish the ultimate scam: make people pay for providing valuable information to the advertisement droids.
The "free" PC or "free" Internet stuff was based on the "fair-exchange" principle: you sell us your personal data, in exchange we give you our product.
Tivo is not a free device so if I pay I expect to not be "charged" with the selling of my vieweing habits. What we watch is solely our own business and people should be extremely protective about this. After all, companies are so interested on viewer's habits because gathering this kind of information is extremely valuebale for them. Should we give this precious resource to big business for free ? Hell no.
Censorship and screening are bringing us to effective mass-population control. It's about time to send to these people a clear message: extend you arm, make a fist, now extend you middle finger.
JBuilder has been released for Linux (in fact I write part of it on Linux) since winter 1999 and today JBuilder is the #1 Java development in the market. Hence the claim.
The cost of living in the SV is absurd and we all know it. It is also true that there are several workarounds. Commute, share etc. I live in Santa Cruz and house hunting is a nightmare but still better than San Jose. Anyway, what gets on my nerves are the usual trite comments about how older workers are discriminated in favor of H1 people. I work in the States with an H1, I'm 38,I make the same salary of anybody else in my position and my carrier is actually improving every year.
Let me tell you, being an H1 worker is a walk in hell and for the employer is an headache after the other. Besides, if you don't have experience it's very unlikely that INS will approve your application. In my case, for example, I had to prove my work experience since I don't have a university diploma. When I moved to the states, 6 years ago, I already had 10 years of programming behind me in Assembly/C++ and DBMS. It took several months to convince INS of that. Months that the employer had to spend waiting instead of having somebody working on the code. This thing alone would make employment of foreigner extremely unappealing. Many of my colleagues that came from Singapore, Germany, France, India etc. are some of the top minds in their field. The reality, and it's been all too eveident when I interviewed several local candidates, is that there's a shortage of people that have actual knowledge of high-tech topics and that are able to fit in a team and deliver a product out of the door.
JBuilder is nmore than a cross-development tool. It's the proof that WORA works. JBuilder itself is writtn in 100% Java and the same exact bytecode is distributed on all supported platforms (Linux,Solaris and Windows). This by itself should be encouraging since JBuilder is a big application.
The distribution of a JVM should not be aproblem since the JRE, not the JDK, is redistributable by license. In other wordss, you can bundle your app with a JR, you don't have to bundle te JDK.
I don't know about Canada but I was born and lived in Italy for 30 years and I can confirm that USA is one of the countries with highest rate of censorship in the western world. How this is tollerated, even requested, in a land that poses so much importance on freedom of speech, it's a mistery to me. I used to joke about it and call USA the "Afghanistan of the western world";). Censorship is just another way of doing control and should not be tolerated by any true democracy.
There are several things that happen in AWT that make it interact with the WM. There was thread about this in th Enlightenment mailing list some time ago, it could be that the article is still on their website. Window positionin, cut-and-paste and DnD are some of the areas where AWT interract with the WM.
JBuilder is 100% Java, there's not a single line of native code, let alone connections with Qt. KDE is the suggested platform since it uses a WM that showed to be very compatibile with the Linux JDK.
Basically, I'm looking for an IDE, with an editor, compiler, and debugger and not use MS's extensions.
JBuilder has always supported only pure Java development. The Fundation is all you asked, the debugger is really nice, and in addition has GUI designer, CodeInsight, BeanExpress and it's customizable through our OpenTools interface. This means that you can integrate your tools in the IDE. -- Paolo "ZioPino" Ciccone
Slashdot Mirror
I worked in Borland, when it was indeed Borland. Great company, you could not find another place with so many fine minds.
What is called Borland today is not the company that people knew. The management stole the name, connected it with mindless, buzzword-rich nonsense and moved the headquesters from Scotts Valley to Texas. They were selling nothing and that's what MicroFocus is buying: nothing.
The core of Borland's business, compilers and IDEs was spun off as CodeGear, recently purchased by Embarcadero Software. CodeGear is still located in Scotts Valley with many of the original developers in the group. Great people with a passion for tool development.
It's not a coincidence that Borland, the travesty, has been losing money at incredible speed after CodeGear was gone. The only part of the business that made sense, that generated revenues, was let go by a management simply unable to understand what a compiler is.
That the name Borland, which was synonym of innovation and "barbarian" spirit, is now associated with the leading name in a technology that was an embarrassment in the 80s, COBOL, is a shame that makes me cringe to no end.
Remember, this is not Borland, the real Borland, the one that brought us such gems as Turbo Pascal, C++ builder, Paradox, JBuilder etc, and that in general taught Microsoft how to write IDEs, is called CodeGear.
The company mentioned in this article, is a travesty and a sham.
Not much to add, some people should just get their head out of their asses and look around a little more often. What we need is apps that we can run everywhere, with near-unlimited storage and no network need. If I'm on location in the death valley, or in some isolated location and I need to put together a rought cut of footage that we just shot, I don't want to depend on a internet connection. AfterEffects barely runs up to speed on today's laptops, make it go faster not slower. I'm sorry, I love Adobe products but this is simply stupid.
Some people suggest that you always hate the top dog. I developed my dislike for Microsoft in the early days, around 1986-87. What made MS dislikeable at that time is still valid today. MS has a track record of ripping other people's ideas off and making it look like it's their own idea. All this while keeping their products mediocre. Look at the Basic interpreter. While Borland had Turbo Pascal, a complete IDE with sophisticated error reporting, editing and incredibly fast compiler (TP 3.0), MS Basic was this command line based sluggish tool with not even half the sophistication of Turbo Pascal. It remained in that way for years. Their C++ compliace took a long time to develop. Their sloppines in coding has kept absurd ideas like the drive letters alive for a long time. They could have just copied the Unix concept of one single root but no, they had to try their own way and today we are still labelling drives and partitions with single letters. In 1995 they woke up and realized that the Internet/Web was going to be huge. If it was left to MS they would never adopted it. They were forced by the competition. MS never invents anything and systematically drives much smarter componies out of business. There's nothing to like.
Windows, still today, doesn't have a scripting language. Why? Notbody is going to pay for it so MS has no incentive. Their command line interpreter, command.com or cmd.exe, is pretty much the same that it was in the DOS days. Apple has added Terminal to Mac OS and keeps updating and improving it.
MS is really a sorry company with no creativity and a piss-poor atitude. That's why it's so easy to hate.
At least that's what I'm doing :). Of course I had to quit my work at Borland, start my own company, program my site with Linux/MySQL/PHP and run the company for a few years.
At the same I got to build and ride a few Choppers (not the RC models, the motorcycles). It worked. Now it's time to move on. Another career is on the horizon...
Good conclusions but sad that we have to realize this years later. Look at "Delicious Library" for a clear example of how an application becomes popular
And boy! we are so happy your not one of us.
That people want to watch that crap is bad enough. You're telling me that in addition to waste their lives on lame Japanese cartoons they also "invest" time in traslating them? No wander our society is in the crapper. After they get the subpoena they should get a hint and get a life.
Besides the point that the UN has no way of enforcing something like this, please note that it's in the US consitution that:
a) The US has given itself the right to enforce any of its law anywhere in the world.
b) No foreign laws will be enforceable in the US.
Kyoto is just whishful thinking.
As somebody who grew up in Europe (Italy) and now live in the US, I can tell you that, yes, the rest of the world is quite naive.
I understand the reson why Dainese is working on this (money) but if this appeals to you then you should give up riding completely. Nobody said that this was for wimps. Get a good leather jacket, chaps, boots and gloves and enjoy the ride. Leave the airbag to the Michelin man.
Simply don't get married. It's a scam to start with, you don't need it and it's a freaking life insurance for whoever will whine louder when the party is over. Remember, there's no divorce. Forget what they told you, divorce is not easy and you'll be stuck paying alymony for the rest of your life to a person that you hate.
Think I'm exagerating ? No, I'm just one of the 50% -60% of people that have been involved in this scam. Give her a ring if you feel like it but don't do it because of the rules of engagement. The worst think you can do in life is to act like a puppet for somebody else profit. There's no user manual for life, write your own !
1) Plenty of languages that do what Java does and in many ways better (Perl, PHP come to mind)
2) Ivory-tower design plagued Java for years. Still today it's very hard to control external processes or work on "real life" entities like the file system. The shell language can do things that Java can't.
3) Even with primitive types handling of data in Java is cumbersome compared to other languages.
4) The JVM is really an attempt on rewriting an new OS. We have an pseudo-OS on top of an OS. Should we focus on writing useful software instead ?
5) Speed might have improved but Java is still one of the most memory-hungry languages out there.
6) Elliotte has written a lot of non-sense starting from the first book I reviewed at the timeof the release of Java 1 and he still continues. Proposals like 4-byte char and use of XML everywhere are the clear demonstration of the ivory-tower mindset of some Java people. It's about time we forget about these jerk-offs and start writing software that is usefull, optimized, and to the point.
Six witty season ? Get real !
>For safety, move to Monaco (omnipresent police, security cameras everywhere).
:) Best food, beautiful
:)
Well, the cameras would not make me feel free but under surveillance. Freedom to me, among other things, means to do what I want without anybody snooping around.
>For quality of life... The obvious choice is
>France of course.
>country.
Absolutely overratted. Italy is a much better choice. Better food, better wine, warmer in the south
This is nonsense. The burden of hiring an H1 worker is so high that companies would gladly do otherwise if they could. Not only the cost is high but there's the need to keep immigration-specialized personnel, worry about the employees situation all the time and in general go through a lot of hard work because of bizantine laws. In addition I want to break a mith: many H1 employees are payed the same salaries of US-born people. To get an H1 visa you either have to have a degree or (my case) equivalent work experience (4 years for each year of University). You don't get that kind of knowledge from a "third-world" country. Many of us had a pretty good life in our original country, without the hassle to be "hostage workers" for 6 or more years. The INS is ruining the lives of thousands of people and creating a lot of hardship for high-tech companies. Try to put yourself in the shoes of somebody that left his/her own country, had to learn to speak a foreign language quickly and at the same time being productive in the competitive world of the Silicon Valley. Trust me on this one, immigrants work much harder than native people.
After busting our butts for 6 years we believe we earned the right to stay, especially because we played by the rules and applied for Green Card in time. The problem here is that, althoug the INS is taking more than three years to process a green card application, we have to pay for INS inneficiency. We don't ask for special favors, just to be allowed to stay in the country where we live and pay taxes while the INS takes its sweet time to process the applications that have been filed following INS guidelines.
Under the current laws INS is saying: we screwed up but you have to pay.
'scuse me but this is simply criminal and unfair.
The fact that the TV service here in the US is astonishly crappy and we pay an absurd amount of money for it was bad enough. If this story is true, Tivo, together with WebTV is geared to accomplish the ultimate scam: make people pay for providing valuable information to the advertisement droids.
The "free" PC or "free" Internet stuff was based on the "fair-exchange" principle: you sell us your personal data, in exchange we give you our product.
Tivo is not a free device so if I pay I expect to not be "charged" with the selling of my vieweing habits. What we watch is solely our own business and people should be extremely protective about this. After all, companies are so interested on viewer's habits because gathering this kind of information is extremely valuebale for them. Should we give this precious resource to big business for free ? Hell no.
Censorship and screening are bringing us to effective mass-population control. It's about time to send to these people a clear message: extend you arm, make a fist, now extend you middle finger.
JBuilder has been released for Linux (in fact I write part of it on Linux) since winter 1999 and today JBuilder is the #1 Java development in the market. Hence the claim.
Let me tell you, being an H1 worker is a walk in hell and for the employer is an headache after the other. Besides, if you don't have experience it's very unlikely that INS will approve your application. In my case, for example, I had to prove my work experience since I don't have a university diploma. When I moved to the states, 6 years ago, I already had 10 years of programming behind me in Assembly/C++ and DBMS. It took several months to convince INS of that. Months that the employer had to spend waiting instead of having somebody working on the code. This thing alone would make employment of foreigner extremely unappealing.
Many of my colleagues that came from Singapore, Germany, France, India etc. are some of the top minds in their field. The reality, and it's been all too eveident when I interviewed several local candidates, is that there's a shortage of people that have actual knowledge of high-tech topics and that are able to fit in a team and deliver a product out of the door.
--Paolo
JBuilder is nmore than a cross-development tool. It's the proof that WORA works. JBuilder itself is writtn in 100% Java and the same exact bytecode is distributed on all supported platforms (Linux,Solaris and Windows).
This by itself should be encouraging since JBuilder is a big application.
The distribution of a JVM should not be aproblem since the JRE, not the JDK, is redistributable by license. In other wordss, you can bundle your app with a JR, you don't have to bundle te JDK.
--
Paolo Ciccone
JBuilder dev.Team
I don't know about Canada but I was born and lived in Italy for 30 years and I can confirm that USA is one of the countries with highest rate of censorship in the western world. How this is tollerated, even requested, in a land that poses so much importance on freedom of speech, it's a mistery to me. I used to joke about it and call USA the "Afghanistan of the western world" ;).
Censorship is just another way of doing control and should not be tolerated by any true democracy.
I looked at the FAQ and it says that "running Quake III is not recomended" and to wait for Xfree 4.0 with DRI to run QIIIA efficiently.
There are several things that happen in AWT that make it interact with the WM. There was thread about this in th Enlightenment mailing list some time ago, it could be that the article is still on their website. Window positionin, cut-and-paste and DnD are some of the areas where AWT interract with the WM.
--
Paolo "ZioPino" Ciccone
We are setting up alternative sites.
--
Paolo "ZioPino" Ciccone
JBuilder is 100% Java, there's not a single line of native code, let alone connections with Qt.
KDE is the suggested platform since it uses a WM that showed to be very compatibile with the Linux JDK.
--
Paolo "ZioPino" Ciccone
Basically, I'm looking for an IDE, with an editor, compiler, and debugger and not use MS's extensions.
JBuilder has always supported only pure Java development. The Fundation is all you asked, the debugger is really nice, and in addition has GUI designer, CodeInsight, BeanExpress and it's customizable through our OpenTools interface. This means that you can integrate your tools in the IDE.
--
Paolo "ZioPino" Ciccone