Generating XML and transforming it via XSLT on the server is plain stupid. I have never seen a project which required this extra flexibility and justified the huge overhead of using the ugly XSLT. Piping the XML to the client and doing the XSLT transformations there might be ok in cases where bandwith is of importance.
All these frameworks limit testing capabilities and move things away from the compiler to the runtime. EL expressions, JSP taglibs, Beans using Reflection, huge XML configuration, XSLT and so on are all evaluated at runtime and none of this can be checked by a compiler. Now those framework creators also create complex testing environments and JUnit plugins which would not have been neccessary without the framework. And all this to create simple HTML!
Many careers have been launched from success in reality shows
Do you mind naming a few of those? In Germany only C and D class actors appear in reality shows and none of them managed to (re-) launch anything similar to a career.
With the Apple iPod digital music players really started to be popular and buying music in a file format becomes more popular too. The iTunes music store is quite likely to be the most popular internet music store among non-geeks. Could this lead to a larger drop in CD sales? Could this even end CD sales at all? If this happened than the last legal DRM free format would stop to exist. So will Apple kill DRM-free music?
IANAL and I do know nothing about US law but in Germany one does not need to register a trademark to protect it. A word or word combination automaticaly becomes trademark just by using it. I thought in the US this is very much the same. While a trademark (TM) is not registered (®) it is still somewhat protected.
Of course we usually mask the exception by some generic error page and log the stacktrace somewhere else but still I don't see where having the stacktrace could help someone break into the system.
Someone care to explain? Since this is a Java exception I can't think of a way to exploit it. I happen to write Java web frontends on a daily basis and some of the pages will throw exceptions if fed malformed parameters. Where is the problem?
Here in Germany only the first two episodes of season one aired (last week and this week). I used Twizz TV to read the rest and I became confused because of all the different relations. I somehow lost track about who was aunt/sister/daugther... That's why I did the diagram. I would not call myself "fan of The O.C.".
I disagree. I believe modifying most OSS games out there requires more knowledge and most importantly more time and effort than writing a simple game from ground up. Those games might have huge code bases and usually there is little documentation especially for starters. The author of this "Ask Slashdot" did not mention "First Person Shooter" or even 3D at all. And there are games which are very simple but still fun. Games like Pong, Mine Sweeper, Snake and many more can each be done in a couple of hours. There are even programming languages made for simple game development although I would prefer a "real" language like Java or Python. I once wrote a small game to learn Tcl/Tk and that was fun and I did it in less then a day.
Single-JVM and J2EE can go well together. But yes, there are lots of things to avoid with J2EE. If management requires a task to be solved using J2EE this only proves management to be buzzword-addicted and clueless. However there are also lots of nice and/or even elementary things part of J2EE like JDBC, JNDI, JAXP, Servlet and JSP APIs, JMS and so on.
Maybe Sun made a huge mistake by putting all these under the J2EE name since this leads to lots of misunderstandings. Even you do a little J2EE bashing while than presenting Spring and JBoss as cool things with those two clearly making heavy use of J2EE technologies.
XPDL is an XML language made for workflow management. While I did not work with it myself one of my co-workers implemented a "workflow extension" for a well-known J2EE e-commerce suite using XPDL. There is an open source editor (JaWE) and an open source engine (Shark). If I remember correctly we did not use the latter.
XPDL is not the only workflow description standard and XPDL in itself won't bring you anywhere. This is a topic which is unfortunately being worked by a lot of marketing and sales guys who will promise anything to get their tools sold. While I can assure you that XPDL was the right choice for us it can be the wrong choice for you. This very much depends on what you actually need to achieve. "Workflow" is a really broad topic (as is "J2EE" by the way). If it comes down to management of approval then you maybe better roll your own.
If you are really forced to use J2EE than this probably has a reason which might be that J2EE is used in your company alot. So for questions like persistence you might ask your co-workers. We worked with EJB for years and ended up using our very own "bean managed persistence". I would not advice using EJB to starters but like I said there might be enough knowledge arround you anyway.
As always you can't have both flexibility and simplicity. Unfortunately with Workflow Management this seems to be even more the case. So get your priorities straight and then - Good Luck!
For every pest which sucks the fluid from the leaves (many pests do) one should try Neem oil first. This is the oil from the Neem tree, purely biological and very save to other animals, children and the plant itself. However this oil should not be used on plants with fruits one might want to eat because it is very bitter. The oil is mixed with water and applicated using a spray bottle. Here in Germany it is available in every DIY store.
Could I install standard RAM sticks? Which ones? DDR2? ECC?
Also the text at the apple site says You can also choose up to 1GB RAM and increase the 40GB hard drive to 80GB. Some of these options must be installed by Apple at the factory; the rest can be added in-store at an Apple Store or an Apple authorized reseller.
So which of these options have to be installed by Apple at the factory and cannot be added later? I bet it is not the hard drive.
Even if it were standard RAM sticks - where do I put the screwdriver? It's not a standard enclosure you know.
Also I am not an Apple hater. I am actually quite interested.
Maybe something a bit like it. But the CargoLifter building is the largest self-supporting hangar in the world. It is 360 by 210 meters large and 107 meters high. The statue of liberty could stand it. The Phoenix Seagaia Resort is 300 by 100 meters large and only 38 meters high. So "like that" does not really fit it.
The difference to flowcharts is that UML is a formal language. In the company I work for every engineer understands at least enough of UML to understand a class diagram (aggregation, composition, deduction...). Keeping the documentation up to date is simply something every engineer should do anyway. We use UML only for small but very interesting/critical parts anyway so that is not a problem. Drawing UML diagrams for something anybody would understand anyway is wasted time.
I don't actually understand why this was modded insightful. UML is not useless just because it will not be verified or executed. We use UML to explain certain structures in our code like patterns or the stuff that users of our frameworks will need to understand. Usually these are class diagrams or simple use-case diagrams or collaboration diagrams. There will be at most 10 classes in it and there is no need to actually verify(prove) or execute it. And yes - one has to keep it up to date like any other documentation.
RTFA. He did not bring the site down. He merely got the guy to remove his software. The site still exists and probably sells other people's property and nothing was reported to any authority.
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Next time please include "ultimate" ;)
Generating XML and transforming it via XSLT on the server is plain stupid. I have never seen a project which required this extra flexibility and justified the huge overhead of using the ugly XSLT. Piping the XML to the client and doing the XSLT transformations there might be ok in cases where bandwith is of importance.
All these frameworks limit testing capabilities and move things away from the compiler to the runtime. EL expressions, JSP taglibs, Beans using Reflection, huge XML configuration, XSLT and so on are all evaluated at runtime and none of this can be checked by a compiler. Now those framework creators also create complex testing environments and JUnit plugins which would not have been neccessary without the framework. And all this to create simple HTML!
Never heard of "Simple is beautiful."?
Many careers have been launched from success in reality shows Do you mind naming a few of those? In Germany only C and D class actors appear in reality shows and none of them managed to (re-) launch anything similar to a career.
With the Apple iPod digital music players really started to be popular and buying music in a file format becomes more popular too. The iTunes music store is quite likely to be the most popular internet music store among non-geeks. Could this lead to a larger drop in CD sales? Could this even end CD sales at all? If this happened than the last legal DRM free format would stop to exist. So will Apple kill DRM-free music?
IANAL and I do know nothing about US law but in Germany one does not need to register a trademark to protect it. A word or word combination automaticaly becomes trademark just by using it. I thought in the US this is very much the same. While a trademark (TM) is not registered (®) it is still somewhat protected.
Because it is cheaper to not fix the problem at all. With disclosure one forces the software companies to fix the problems.
I guess they watch too much TV ;)
Fortunately crashing into an iceberg should not be a likely problem for the A380.
This Pam? What took the BSD guys so long?
Of course we usually mask the exception by some generic error page and log the stacktrace somewhere else but still I don't see where having the stacktrace could help someone break into the system.
Someone care to explain?
Since this is a Java exception I can't think of a way to exploit it. I happen to write Java web frontends on a daily basis and some of the pages will throw exceptions if fed malformed parameters. Where is the problem?
Here in Germany only the first two episodes of season one aired (last week and this week). I used Twizz TV to read the rest and I became confused because of all the different relations. I somehow lost track about who was aunt/sister/daugther... That's why I did the diagram. I would not call myself "fan of The O.C.".
Well, go ahead ;)
I disagree. I believe modifying most OSS games out there requires more knowledge and most importantly more time and effort than writing a simple game from ground up. Those games might have huge code bases and usually there is little documentation especially for starters.
The author of this "Ask Slashdot" did not mention "First Person Shooter" or even 3D at all. And there are games which are very simple but still fun. Games like Pong, Mine Sweeper, Snake and many more can each be done in a couple of hours. There are even programming languages made for simple game development although I would prefer a "real" language like Java or Python. I once wrote a small game to learn Tcl/Tk and that was fun and I did it in less then a day.
Single-JVM and J2EE can go well together. But yes, there are lots of things to avoid with J2EE. If management requires a task to be solved using J2EE this only proves management to be buzzword-addicted and clueless. However there are also lots of nice and/or even elementary things part of J2EE like JDBC, JNDI, JAXP, Servlet and JSP APIs, JMS and so on.
Maybe Sun made a huge mistake by putting all these under the J2EE name since this leads to lots of misunderstandings. Even you do a little J2EE bashing while than presenting Spring and JBoss as cool things with those two clearly making heavy use of J2EE technologies.
XPDL is an XML language made for workflow management. While I did not work with it myself one of my co-workers implemented a "workflow extension" for a well-known J2EE e-commerce suite using XPDL. There is an open source editor (JaWE) and an open source engine (Shark). If I remember correctly we did not use the latter.
XPDL is not the only workflow description standard and XPDL in itself won't bring you anywhere. This is a topic which is unfortunately being worked by a lot of marketing and sales guys who will promise anything to get their tools sold.
While I can assure you that XPDL was the right choice for us it can be the wrong choice for you. This very much depends on what you actually need to achieve. "Workflow" is a really broad topic (as is "J2EE" by the way). If it comes down to management of approval then you maybe better roll your own.
If you are really forced to use J2EE than this probably has a reason which might be that J2EE is used in your company alot. So for questions like persistence you might ask your co-workers. We worked with EJB for years and ended up using our very own "bean managed persistence". I would not advice using EJB to starters but like I said there might be enough knowledge arround you anyway.
As always you can't have both flexibility and simplicity. Unfortunately with Workflow Management this seems to be even more the case. So get your priorities straight and then - Good Luck!
For every pest which sucks the fluid from the leaves (many pests do) one should try Neem oil first. This is the oil from the Neem tree, purely biological and very save to other animals, children and the plant itself. However this oil should not be used on plants with fruits one might want to eat because it is very bitter. The oil is mixed with water and applicated using a spray bottle. Here in Germany it is available in every DIY store.
Yeah but would you really think Balmer is part of the best minds in software? I mean
Developers! Developers! Developers!
!?
The whole interview is extremely arrogant but this statement statements just beats it all (and besides it is also wrong):
the best minds in software today are working with Linux and have been for years
Any examples maybe?
Could I install standard RAM sticks? Which ones? DDR2? ECC?
Also the text at the apple site says
You can also choose up to 1GB RAM and increase the 40GB hard drive to 80GB. Some of these options must be installed by Apple at the factory; the rest can be added in-store at an Apple Store or an Apple authorized reseller.
So which of these options have to be installed by Apple at the factory and cannot be added later? I bet it is not the hard drive.
Even if it were standard RAM sticks - where do I put the screwdriver? It's not a standard enclosure you know.
Also I am not an Apple hater. I am actually quite interested.
Pricey Apple cereals. Adding RAM up to 1GB unfortunately almost doubles the price. They actually take 430 for 768 MB. That is ridiculous.
Maybe something a bit like it. But the CargoLifter building is the largest self-supporting hangar in the world. It is 360 by 210 meters large and 107 meters high. The statue of liberty could stand it. The Phoenix Seagaia Resort is 300 by 100 meters large and only 38 meters high. So "like that" does not really fit it.
The difference to flowcharts is that UML is a formal language. In the company I work for every engineer understands at least enough of UML to understand a class diagram (aggregation, composition, deduction...). Keeping the documentation up to date is simply something every engineer should do anyway. We use UML only for small but very interesting/critical parts anyway so that is not a problem. Drawing UML diagrams for something anybody would understand anyway is wasted time.
I don't actually understand why this was modded insightful. UML is not useless just because it will not be verified or executed. We use UML to explain certain structures in our code like patterns or the stuff that users of our frameworks will need to understand. Usually these are class diagrams or simple use-case diagrams or collaboration diagrams. There will be at most 10 classes in it and there is no need to actually verify(prove) or execute it. And yes - one has to keep it up to date like any other documentation.
RTFA. He did not bring the site down. He merely got the guy to remove his software. The site still exists and probably sells other people's property and nothing was reported to any authority.