I hate to sound like a VB programmer here, but I think part of the problem with all these Java API's, VM's, etc. for mobile platforms is that they are too complex. When the MIDP and the kvm first came out for Palm, I just at it, but was quickly frustrated by the complexity of creating an application and the limited number of controls.
I shouldn't need a book to create Java applications for a mobile device. I should need a two page cheat-sheet that maps "mobile" concepts to core Java/Swing concepts.
BTW, I did finally get my Palm program working by using Waba (http://www.wabasoft.com), which I thought was far superior to what Sun was putting out.
While I haven't used the most recent version of Eclipse (2.0 was the last version I looked at), it's hard to believe it could be better than IDEA. For a long time I used a text editor, and it was good. I used IDEA for a couple days and found I couldn't go back.
The refactoring that people are raving about Eclipse just added has been in IDEA for over a year. Since then, they have raised the bar even higher. Some of it's features are so advanced, I really don't know how those crazy Czechs did it! It's support for Webapps and EJB's is excellent as well.
So IDEA isn't free... call me a turn-coat, but I don't care. It's the best $500 that I (er, my company) has spent.
This memo is so fake, I can't believe that even Slashdot posted it. Only rabid anti-Java programmers would believe it.
First off, this "memo" is the complete opposite of Sun's Java stance. They believe that Java should be used for everything from running enterprise applications on E10K's to apps on your PDA. I don't think that Java should be used everywhere, and I'm a big fan of the language.
Second, these might have been arguments against Java a couple years ago, but they simlply aren't true any more. For enterprise-level applications, Java outperforms Perl or someother scripting language on every front (scalability, preformance, maintanability, etc.).
Finally, these bugs don't even exist! I seached for the bug id's in Sun's bug database, and didn't get anything.
As usual, the Slashdot community has formed a collective knee-jerk reaction against any technology that isn't open source and Perl.
Paramount needs to hang a sign bearing these words outside the studio.
I'm a huge fan of Patrick Stewart and some of the other TNG cast, but I'm tired of seeing them as Capt. Pichard, et. al. I think their characters have been played out; all their demons have been exposed. The only reason the original crew were able to make so many movies is because the series only lasted a few seasons.
Please Paramount, don't inflict a DS9 movie on us or lose Voyager again! An entirly new set of characters is needed for a successful Star Trek movie.
Okay, may be the two wouldn't be exactly the same, but if IBM continues to support and fund Linux initiatives, a lot of the great features of AIX could find their way into Linux.
I don't think this change will be a huge leap. I think in the decade time-frame, the differences between the two operating systems could be so small that IBM wouldn't care, and Linux will become the "most popular" OS running on IBM hardware. IBM wants to sell hardware. If they can leverage an OS that costs them less, they will use it.
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I think one of the main reasons Perl and XML aren't generally used together is because Perl isn't object oriented in the same way the Java and C# are. I know that OO concepts have been bolted on to Perl in the same way the OO was bolted on to C++ and in my opinion with similar results (i.e., kludge-fest). It's very natual in Java to parse an XML doc and get an object, while it's more natural to parse a log file or CSV file with Perl.
I was excited to see an article about how to architect a website to combat the Slashdot effect... but I was soon dissappointed. They could have made it easier on me and reduced the article to a single sentence: "We use object caching and database connection pooling".
Do they think this is revolutionary or even noteworthy? Anyone who builds dynamic websites of any size does these things!
What is the use of pushing MS technology on Indian programmers? I'm assuming that MS is targeting Indian programmers who work for outsourcing firms (body shops). Every time I've used such places with clients, we've never given the out-sourced developers their choice of platforms. You tell them exactly what you want and when. If developer X doesn't have the ability to write the program in Java, then we go to X' who can.
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I shouldn't need a book to create Java applications for a mobile device. I should need a two page cheat-sheet that maps "mobile" concepts to core Java/Swing concepts.
BTW, I did finally get my Palm program working by using Waba (http://www.wabasoft.com), which I thought was far superior to what Sun was putting out.
While I haven't used the most recent version of Eclipse (2.0 was the last version I looked at), it's hard to believe it could be better than IDEA. For a long time I used a text editor, and it was good. I used IDEA for a couple days and found I couldn't go back.
The refactoring that people are raving about Eclipse just added has been in IDEA for over a year. Since then, they have raised the bar even higher. Some of it's features are so advanced, I really don't know how those crazy Czechs did it! It's support for Webapps and EJB's is excellent as well.
So IDEA isn't free... call me a turn-coat, but I don't care. It's the best $500 that I (er, my company) has spent.
First off, this "memo" is the complete opposite of Sun's Java stance. They believe that Java should be used for everything from running enterprise applications on E10K's to apps on your PDA. I don't think that Java should be used everywhere, and I'm a big fan of the language.
Second, these might have been arguments against Java a couple years ago, but they simlply aren't true any more. For enterprise-level applications, Java outperforms Perl or someother scripting language on every front (scalability, preformance, maintanability, etc.).
Finally, these bugs don't even exist! I seached for the bug id's in Sun's bug database, and didn't get anything.
As usual, the Slashdot community has formed a collective knee-jerk reaction against any technology that isn't open source and Perl.
I'm a huge fan of Patrick Stewart and some of the other TNG cast, but I'm tired of seeing them as Capt. Pichard, et. al. I think their characters have been played out; all their demons have been exposed. The only reason the original crew were able to make so many movies is because the series only lasted a few seasons.
Please Paramount, don't inflict a DS9 movie on us or lose Voyager again! An entirly new set of characters is needed for a successful Star Trek movie.
I don't think this change will be a huge leap. I think in the decade time-frame, the differences between the two operating systems could be so small that IBM wouldn't care, and Linux will become the "most popular" OS running on IBM hardware. IBM wants to sell hardware. If they can leverage an OS that costs them less, they will use it.
I think one of the main reasons Perl and XML aren't generally used together is because Perl isn't object oriented in the same way the Java and C# are. I know that OO concepts have been bolted on to Perl in the same way the OO was bolted on to C++ and in my opinion with similar results (i.e., kludge-fest). It's very natual in Java to parse an XML doc and get an object, while it's more natural to parse a log file or CSV file with Perl.
Do they think this is revolutionary or even noteworthy? Anyone who builds dynamic websites of any size does these things!
What is the use of pushing MS technology on Indian programmers? I'm assuming that MS is targeting Indian programmers who work for outsourcing firms (body shops). Every time I've used such places with clients, we've never given the out-sourced developers their choice of platforms. You tell them exactly what you want and when. If developer X doesn't have the ability to write the program in Java, then we go to X' who can.