That's fine if you happen to like PostgreSQL. I use both that and MySQL a great deal. However, unless you have something to back it up, your comment that:
MySQL? Be sure you have a robust database first and work around that. I don't know if MySQL can handle high loads gracefully now, but in the past it's been known to flake out and corrupt the database. Not a good thing if that takes out your phones. needs to be taken as pure FUD. I implemented a MySQL solution for the integration department of a major North American hospital (one of the top 5) that logs all electronic medical record transactions between different hospital information systems (some 4+ million a day) to a MySQL database for querying, lookups and other functions, and it's run flawlessly for years on both 4.x and 5.x versions. The only time there was ever any data issue was when the entire data center lost power and you better believe that was the least of their worries.
Anyway, hopefully the mods will see this and -1 mod you and your fanboyism. PGSQL is fine, I'm using it now for a major project, but you needn't attempt to trash talk other solutions. It's simply counterproductive to the original poster's question.
The parent post was about enterprise edition, not SE. I haven't seen any EE 5 books out yet, although I know O'Reilly's Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 is out, which to me was the most important part of EE 5. Although, I have to admit, I haven't bought the book because going through the NetBeans tutorials pretty much teach you all you need to know about EJB3 (assuming you get the basic idea of enterprise design patterns and have a conceptual idea of how EJBs work). Also, at the moment your choices for an EE 5 container are pretty slim (pretty much only glassfish). If you're deploying on JBoss like I am you can only use EJB3 and a handful of other technology like JAX-WS 2 and then only if you set it up right and include the right libraries.
It is a bit of a shame, because EE 5 has really made enterprise Java a lot simpler and for some of us has made it a great choice for developing apps. Hopefully the amount of good documentation will increase soon.
It's nice to get a friendly, informative reply instead of a flame when I post about Java for once. Thank you.
C# is interesting, but kind of out of the question for me since I deploy many solutions on Linux, OS X and Solaris. (I know about Mono, but I don't really trust it yet.) I used to have a love affair with Python, but the more I used Java the more I became fond of having a strict, static language. Python objects also have always given me a hokey feel (passing self as an argument to methods always bugged me), but was a breath of fresh air after learning OO programming with Perl (I still have nightmares of return bless $self, $hash;). The other nice thing about Java and about the.net stuff too if I understand correctly, is the many features that make it suitable for the enterprise, like EJB3, JSF and JMS. Then I can take my (hopefully well-coded) business logic and hibernate entities, toss them behind a JSF application and there you have an enterprise-style web-app.
I hate to comment whenever Java discussions arise, but I do a fair amount of writing stand alone Java programs. I use NetBeans which does great work for GUI building in Swing, and for the database I'll use HSQL, or Derby (that's the former IBM Cloudscape product of which you speak). Both are fantastic databases that offer real network access and that means your application can go from stand alone to networked by simply changing the JDBC URL connection string. Then to make development really move fast I use Hibernate to turn all my SQL objects into Java objects and then I don't even have to worry about writing any SQL.
These apps are fast, attractive, stable and portable. Java gets unfairly panned about the wrong things far too often around here.
SL *is* intended to sustain businesses (at least partly). With the ability to convert between Linden dollars and US dollars, they are trying to create a bona fide market place. The CopyBot code is having the same effect on the SL economy that someone inventing a matter duplicator would have in the real world (which is not far afield from the potential effects of IP piracy, all of which has been discussed here ad nauseum).
I guess I should point out I'm no expert on SL myself, this opinion is based on a relatively limited understanding.
"EarthBound fans have waited 11 years for Nintendo to release the game's sequel, Mother 3, which came out in Japan in April 2006. However, following a recent announcement by a Nintendo employee that it almost certainly won't happen,[...]
If it did come out in April of this year than what "almost certainly won't happen"? From the comments I'm guessing an official English localization of the game is what won't happen.
I know this isn't fark, but DIAF, subby. You too, editors.
It's just the "iTunes Store" these days. That whole movie, tv show thing kind of made the "Music" part of iTMS really not apply. Of course people still type iTMS out of habit. "iTS" just looks like someone has their capslock on.
Check out the lightweight java game library (LWJGL) - it powers pretty impressive commercial games like Tribal Trouble and Bang Howdy. They work great on the three OSes you mention, have attractive 3d interfaces and are fast and more stable than many windows games I've played (CC:Generals comes to mind - same genre, but for me crashed about 50% of the games I played). Maybe they're not as gorgeous as something like Source can provide, but I think they show that Java can be a wonderful platform for many types of games.
I had a powerbook g4 (1.67) and now a mbp (1.83). If anything the g4 was worse than the mbp. I'll even play ut2k4 and wow with it on my lap. Gets warm, sure, and shorts aren't a great idea while gaming, but the heat issues with the mbp are seriously overstated. I'll join you, though, in lamenting the loss of the 12" pro model.
I'm also a programmer, btw, and having two cores makes compiling large projects and working with intensive IDEs like netbeans with jboss much, much faster.
Yeah, I giggle a bit every time I see "waaambulance" in print. I also seriously agree with the parent. The dude got more game than he was expecting and he complains? "The restaurant gave me too much food! I'm gonna complain!" Someone needs to STFU.
What, just because someone mentions microsoft on/. they're a troll now? Get out your reading glasses and look again.
And to stay on topic, it's good to see more and more of apple's prices come out of the stratosphere. Now how about dropping that 20" cinema HD display to match dell's $400 on a similar screen.
I second this - I use a MBP for all my development whether on site or at home. It's plenty of machine and Parallels fits the bill perfectly when I need to test on other OSes.
Have numbers to back that up? Given the number of ipods/itunes users out there (was it 8.5 million units this quarter?) compared to the number of xbox360 users I find your downloads a day statement a little far-fetched. Plus I imagine that xbox live downloads might be priced higher than the $0.99 that most itunes stuff goes for.
Yeah, I'm a trumpet player. There's no practice involved - just hold down valves 1 and 3 and you're playing a bugle.
I'm a competent trumpet player
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I'd gladly play taps at any any service member's funeral rather than have some piece of shit plastic gadget insult the memory of someone who risked their life for their country. What a crock of shit.
Sorry, I'm suddenly pissed off.
Gah - well, I might as well mention to an above poster that said they play roughly two notes per octave, that's only true in the lowest octave. If I know what I'm talking about, a bugle is roughly equivalent to a trumpet with the first and third valves held down. Regardless of what valves are down for any combination the lowest octave can play two notes with that key combination (8 total), the next octave plays roughly 4 (I'm thinking of the open combo - you *can* play a high Bb open, it just isn't so pretty) and the higher you go the more notes you can play with a given key combo. It's actually pretty complex because some combos mean you can't accurately hit the note without "lipping" it up or down some. Again, a competent player can do so with little effort.
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Maybe you haven't noticed that AT&T is a monopoly again.
If only the NHL, NBA, MLB and NFL (and others, I'm sure) would agree with you.
but I have to.
We are pentium of borg!
Division is useless!
You will be approximated!
Anyway, hopefully the mods will see this and -1 mod you and your fanboyism. PGSQL is fine, I'm using it now for a major project, but you needn't attempt to trash talk other solutions. It's simply counterproductive to the original poster's question.
The parent post was about enterprise edition, not SE. I haven't seen any EE 5 books out yet, although I know O'Reilly's Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 is out, which to me was the most important part of EE 5. Although, I have to admit, I haven't bought the book because going through the NetBeans tutorials pretty much teach you all you need to know about EJB3 (assuming you get the basic idea of enterprise design patterns and have a conceptual idea of how EJBs work). Also, at the moment your choices for an EE 5 container are pretty slim (pretty much only glassfish). If you're deploying on JBoss like I am you can only use EJB3 and a handful of other technology like JAX-WS 2 and then only if you set it up right and include the right libraries.
It is a bit of a shame, because EE 5 has really made enterprise Java a lot simpler and for some of us has made it a great choice for developing apps. Hopefully the amount of good documentation will increase soon.
It's nice to get a friendly, informative reply instead of a flame when I post about Java for once. Thank you.
.net stuff too if I understand correctly, is the many features that make it suitable for the enterprise, like EJB3, JSF and JMS. Then I can take my (hopefully well-coded) business logic and hibernate entities, toss them behind a JSF application and there you have an enterprise-style web-app.
C# is interesting, but kind of out of the question for me since I deploy many solutions on Linux, OS X and Solaris. (I know about Mono, but I don't really trust it yet.) I used to have a love affair with Python, but the more I used Java the more I became fond of having a strict, static language. Python objects also have always given me a hokey feel (passing self as an argument to methods always bugged me), but was a breath of fresh air after learning OO programming with Perl (I still have nightmares of return bless $self, $hash;). The other nice thing about Java and about the
I hate to comment whenever Java discussions arise, but I do a fair amount of writing stand alone Java programs. I use NetBeans which does great work for GUI building in Swing, and for the database I'll use HSQL, or Derby (that's the former IBM Cloudscape product of which you speak). Both are fantastic databases that offer real network access and that means your application can go from stand alone to networked by simply changing the JDBC URL connection string. Then to make development really move fast I use Hibernate to turn all my SQL objects into Java objects and then I don't even have to worry about writing any SQL.
These apps are fast, attractive, stable and portable. Java gets unfairly panned about the wrong things far too often around here.
I guess I should point out I'm no expert on SL myself, this opinion is based on a relatively limited understanding.
"EarthBound fans have waited 11 years for Nintendo to release the game's sequel, Mother 3, which came out in Japan in April 2006. However, following a recent announcement by a Nintendo employee that it almost certainly won't happen,[...]
If it did come out in April of this year than what "almost certainly won't happen"? From the comments I'm guessing an official English localization of the game is what won't happen.
I know this isn't fark, but DIAF, subby. You too, editors.
It's just the "iTunes Store" these days. That whole movie, tv show thing kind of made the "Music" part of iTMS really not apply. Of course people still type iTMS out of habit. "iTS" just looks like someone has their capslock on.
Check out the lightweight java game library (LWJGL) - it powers pretty impressive commercial games like Tribal Trouble and Bang Howdy. They work great on the three OSes you mention, have attractive 3d interfaces and are fast and more stable than many windows games I've played (CC:Generals comes to mind - same genre, but for me crashed about 50% of the games I played). Maybe they're not as gorgeous as something like Source can provide, but I think they show that Java can be a wonderful platform for many types of games.
I'm also a programmer, btw, and having two cores makes compiling large projects and working with intensive IDEs like netbeans with jboss much, much faster.
Yeah, I giggle a bit every time I see "waaambulance" in print. I also seriously agree with the parent. The dude got more game than he was expecting and he complains? "The restaurant gave me too much food! I'm gonna complain!" Someone needs to STFU.
It's a well documented fact that the dark lord was at least consulted.
More importantly, can Dell get 4.1 million of these? And kind of quickly?
And to stay on topic, it's good to see more and more of apple's prices come out of the stratosphere. Now how about dropping that 20" cinema HD display to match dell's $400 on a similar screen.
sun apparently hot, water apparently wet. Seriously, by which metric would it not be considered to be a computer?
Wish I could say I was joking.
What are you talking about? Poor people can't afford macs! :)
I second this - I use a MBP for all my development whether on site or at home. It's plenty of machine and Parallels fits the bill perfectly when I need to test on other OSes.
Have numbers to back that up? Given the number of ipods/itunes users out there (was it 8.5 million units this quarter?) compared to the number of xbox360 users I find your downloads a day statement a little far-fetched. Plus I imagine that xbox live downloads might be priced higher than the $0.99 that most itunes stuff goes for.
Yeah, I'm a trumpet player. There's no practice involved - just hold down valves 1 and 3 and you're playing a bugle.
Sorry, I'm suddenly pissed off.
Gah - well, I might as well mention to an above poster that said they play roughly two notes per octave, that's only true in the lowest octave. If I know what I'm talking about, a bugle is roughly equivalent to a trumpet with the first and third valves held down. Regardless of what valves are down for any combination the lowest octave can play two notes with that key combination (8 total), the next octave plays roughly 4 (I'm thinking of the open combo - you *can* play a high Bb open, it just isn't so pretty) and the higher you go the more notes you can play with a given key combo. It's actually pretty complex because some combos mean you can't accurately hit the note without "lipping" it up or down some. Again, a competent player can do so with little effort.
I thought I read that BluRay wasn't doing that region nonsense. Or maybe that was just for games for the ps3...
His noodly appendage is testing your faith. That is all. Ramen.