The JSR that I'm excited about; - JSR 294 Improved Modularity Support (superpackages); so we can define the API that is public for a library, so the user doesn't have to see all the public functions. - JSR 296 Swing Application Framework; which helps us build better Swing GUIs faster in a more standard way. - JSR 295 Beans Binding and JSR 303 Beans Validation I was really excited about that Consumer JRE / Java Kernel, which was suppose to minimize the size of the JRE so you could bundle a 5mb JRE for a normal Swing Application, but they decided on pushing that to Java 6! so it's arriving as a patch late this year. It will probably include a very nice looking look&feel as well as GUI drawing optimizations using DirectX on Windows.. pretty cool.
We can also hope for Closures, which would make our GUI code a lot neater.. My company and everyone that I know (except Apple) have moved to Java 6 - and the IDEs such as Eclipse and new technologies like Open-Terracotta are making me love Java! Especially cause we are developing applications / algorithms that run on many different platform.. Java is really the only way cause its fast enough and rock solid.
I recommend using ReSharper with Visual Studio. Resharper is a plugin for Visual Studio, made by JetBrains that make the IntelliJ IDEA IDE which I think is way ahead of Eclipse in features.
ReSharper adds all the features that we Java developers have learned to love in eclipse/intellij to Visual Studio for C# developers: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Yeah? Is that why Poland is on the rise? and all eastern Europe after adopting EU laws. Finland and Ireland are doing better and better in IT related businesses and most European countries are doing just fine?
EU laws are not to blame for e.g. Germanys economic troubles, they have their own labor laws that are too strict, as does the UK. EU just sets the law frame, the countries can play within them as they want. EU is just an easy target that many like to blame for what their country is doing wrong..
Just be happy that you don't live in Iceland, where you have to pay $220.. and if you buy it elsewhere, then you'll have hell of a time getting the Icelandic keyboard to work.
(roman keyboards are prefered to unicode keyboards by OS X in most applications, so you're hittin alt-apple-space all the time)
Apple hardware is almost 2x more expensive here too.. no wonder nobody buys them here!
Yes! And VS 2005 C++ edition is the only reason why I use my Windows machine these days. I use my mac for everything else than C++ development, because this VS express is the best C++ IDE I've ever used.
KDevelop and XCode aren't even close! download VS for C++ and try debugging.. I hate how good it is:P
For Java, try IntelliJ IDEA. I prefer Java as a language for prototyping over the scripting languages, as that IDE lets me be more productive than the most scripting languages. (unless Its working with text, then Perl rocks)
I can't understand people who just use one language:).. use them all!
(these thoughts were written because of too much coffee)
why? Countries in Europe don't vote for their ministers, they just vote for their political party and the prime minister selects its cabinet. Does that damn the ministers?
This is exactly the same! Even though we didn't vote for each commissioner they are chosen as our representatives by the government. And the president of the EU-Commission is selected by the people we vote to the EU-Parliament.
I am very grateful to the EU as it is tying together all the countries in the continent that has suffered the most from wars in the last century. By making all the countries depend on each other in trade, none of them will ever think of going to war against each other again.
Now with the addition of eastern Europe, the EU can help the poorer countries of Europe create better living situation for their citizens.. that alone will make things so much easier for Europe's future.
Your "logic" sounds like the FUD that anti-everything use on any government or international organization they don't like these days. It is just not right.. Criticism is good, but bullshit just makes things worse.
PHP as an enterprise level language, which in my opinion, it isn't. Every PHP project that I've worked on started to break down after a certain level of complexity. I think part of this was due to the lack of Object Orientation
you could say the same thing about Linux being written in C, but its written in an OO way. OO-programming is just a way to write programs that is applicable even though the language doesn't support it fully.
but i agree with you, every PHP project i've seen is a mess compared to most Java projects.. the same with Object Oriented C code and OO C++ code.
Temple of Elemental Evil is the most unbalanced game i've ever played. It seemed so good when i started playing it, but went so bad so quick. It just wasn't balanced! and I have heard really bad things about Vampire too..
I totally wrote Trokia off at that point. But i wanna try Arcanum, maybe I'll that game and play it this summer, just because they just closed:)
from the website;The solution was found at 22 ply deep (23 for the empty board).(searching 4.472.000.000 nodes in about 4 hours on a P4 2.0Ghz)
4-hours is on a single p4 machine is just a joke.. but good point though, solving a game takes alot of time. University of Alberta (Canada) have been working on solving checkers (which is a much simpler game) for years. I think they are about half done with that. They are just using search, as checkers has low branching factor compared to Go
Van der Werf also investigated learning techniques, which are used in games such as backgammon
I belivie this is the way to be able to create a decent Go program, by learning (Reinforcement Learning, because Backgammon techniques). Brute force search gets boring, no matter how advanced it is!
no, it means that we in Europe have to find better ways to make energy and consider cars that don't use 20L of fuel per 100km like the American red-neck pickups.
Kyoto means putting a price tag on pollution, forcing companies and goverments to find a cleaner way of doing things by making the easy ways that pollutes more cost more. By doing that we create a economical drive for cleaner solutions.
China and India have a lot of catching up to do, in a way they just started their industrial revolution.. thats why they are getting slack, not to squash North American industry.
eh? But what if the side that gets the bomb is stupid, or irresponsible? Saying that countries ruled by dictators should have nuclear bombs is like saying that if you give a baby a knife, it will begin to act responsibly and won't cut itself.
I know there are theories in political science that two democratic nations won't go to a war with each other.. and give every country the Bomb and they will act responsibly, but I'm not willing to bet my life on those theories.
I thought the biotech patents where given temporarily, 20 years or so, to the applicant. Not that I have formed an strong opinion on this, but for a biotech company to discover something, make an improved drug from it, get government approval of it and market it, 20 years isn't that much time, maybe max 5 years before the cheap replicas hit the market (in software, 20 years is like 5x the lifetime of a program)
The reason why I am not against biotech patents is because I see them as the drive for the market to invest its money in such a risky business. They have 20 years to make some money of it, but then their patent falls into public domain. Even though it's very sad to watch countries suffer a lot from diseases that can be cured by some expensive new drugs, I would imagine that many of these drugs wouldn't exists if the research where purely government driven.
I think we should let the biotech companies do the research in a capitalist manner, but the countries of the world shouldn't be shy to buy a lot of patented drugs for the third world countries or even buy the patent off the biotech company.
But hey, I haven't formed my opinion.. Please inform me.
I find reading this blog quite funny, as i have spent the last 3 hours updating my fathers laptop.. installing SP2, removing spyware with AdAware and rebooting 6-7 times. Hes just the regular computer user but his computer got all messed up because he wasn't sure why that update thingy kept popping up.
My finilization of this "update" is installing Mozilla Firefox, and replacing the Firefox icon with the IE icon. He will never notice, but it will save me the hell of "fixing" his computer in a couple of months.
i don't get it. I use IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio every day.. and i think Visual Studio sucks!.. especially compared to IDEA.
Most of the time when i'm doing some C++ stuff, i log on to a Linux box and use VIM rather than using an IDE with bunch of freaking Windows constants and stuff in autocomplete.. (my vi-dictionary and CTRL-P and CTRL-N is better)
Every time i read that Visual Studio is a killer app, i suspect that it's Microsoft-Marketing posting..
the real first parameter to every C++ member function is the (hidden and implicit) this pointer - not every member function, as static class functions don't need a this pointer
as you point out Object Oriented programmers can write OO code but that doesn't mean that the encapsulation that is possible with C++ can be used in C. The Linux code is a good example; it is Object Oriented but uses function pointers instead of virtual functions which makes it difficult to understand
Object Oriented design isn't Object Oriented programming.. it's just a part of it
Well, I've reads these 'covers' in the kernel mailing lists, and they have just ended in brainless flamewars. Mostly because C developers don't like C++ and assume things.. and perhaps C++ developers have a hard time understanding that OO design with C isn't that hard.
the bottom line is; the code is complicated and it takes a lot of time to get into it! Even though you get nice coupling between systems with modular C programming, it does not mean that it couldn't be done better. If the slab memory allocation where easier to understand, then maybe it had more SMP support, with magazines for each CPU and stuff. That would be a great research project for graduate computer scientists...
I would like to see Linux written in C++. I've had to dig into the code a couple of times, and it's really not easy to understand what's happening under the hood,for example all those function pointers to that could be replaced by virtual functions. C++ being slower than C is a myth, it may have been true few years ago.. but not anymore.
The benefit of writing something like Linux in C++ is that the more complex things can be abstracted so they can be understood by more programmers and computer science students (or according to Open Source philosophy; more eyes, fewer bugs). Object orientation, instead of modular C programming, would also mean that it would be easier to refactor parts of the systems, which could ease things up for students that want to test their theories in action, and then donate them to Linux if they are better
C can be thought of as a subset of C++, so there is no reason to stop using neat C tricks (not everything should be an Object - C++ is not Java!). This isn't about stop low level programming. It should be about making the code more understandable. C and C++ can live happily together, but some Linux coders are just stubborn and won't stop using new as variable names and etc.
this combined with JavaSpaces is really intresting, like http://www.j-spaces.com/database1.htm . I don't understand why Prevayler has reached Slashdot two times now, when its nothing new..
also, this is more an DBMS alternative than a RDBMS as you have to make all the relations in you'r own code, but not in the "DBS".
my Compaq Presario kept giving me BSOD and sometimes rebooting while playing games that use DX/9 with ATI Radeon Mobile 7500 (eve-oneline).. and after one month of e-mailing ATI support (with over 20 e-mails of mostly bullshit from ATI and Compaq) i found a fix.. unofficial ATI drivers that are not from the laptop vendor (Compaq).
after this, i am never ever buying ATI again.. even though its not just their fault, Compaq should had supplied new drivers months ago, it just showed me that i shouldn't buy things from a company with bullshit drivers from vendors only policy.
I've missed the Radeon drivers since i bought this machine.. i guess i will miss them too when i'll try to switch to Linux next week!
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The JSR that I'm excited about;
- JSR 294 Improved Modularity Support (superpackages); so we can define the API that is public for a library, so the user doesn't have to see all the public functions.
- JSR 296 Swing Application Framework; which helps us build better Swing GUIs faster in a more standard way.
- JSR 295 Beans Binding and JSR 303 Beans Validation
I was really excited about that Consumer JRE / Java Kernel, which was suppose to minimize the size of the JRE so you could bundle a 5mb JRE for a normal Swing Application, but they decided on pushing that to Java 6! so it's arriving as a patch late this year. It will probably include a very nice looking look&feel as well as GUI drawing optimizations using DirectX on Windows.. pretty cool.
We can also hope for Closures, which would make our GUI code a lot neater.. My company and everyone that I know (except Apple) have moved to Java 6 - and the IDEs such as Eclipse and new technologies like Open-Terracotta are making me love Java! Especially cause we are developing applications / algorithms that run on many different platform.. Java is really the only way cause its fast enough and rock solid.
I recommend using ReSharper with Visual Studio. Resharper is a plugin for Visual Studio, made by JetBrains that make the IntelliJ IDEA IDE which I think is way ahead of Eclipse in features.
ReSharper adds all the features that we Java developers have learned to love in eclipse/intellij to Visual Studio for C# developers: http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
shouldnt it be: "IBM sets free a workforce of their 14,000 least skilled workers".
Yeah? Is that why Poland is on the rise? and all eastern Europe after adopting EU laws. Finland and Ireland are doing better and better in IT related businesses and most European countries are doing just fine?
EU laws are not to blame for e.g. Germanys economic troubles, they have their own labor laws that are too strict, as does the UK. EU just sets the law frame, the countries can play within them as they want. EU is just an easy target that many like to blame for what their country is doing wrong..
Just be happy that you don't live in Iceland, where you have to pay $220.. and if you buy it elsewhere, then you'll have hell of a time getting the Icelandic keyboard to work.
(roman keyboards are prefered to unicode keyboards by OS X in most applications, so you're hittin alt-apple-space all the time)
Apple hardware is almost 2x more expensive here too.. no wonder nobody buys them here!
Yes! And VS 2005 C++ edition is the only reason why I use my Windows machine these days. I use my mac for everything else than C++ development, because this VS express is the best C++ IDE I've ever used.
:P
:).. use them all!
KDevelop and XCode aren't even close! download VS for C++ and try debugging.. I hate how good it is
For Java, try IntelliJ IDEA. I prefer Java as a language for prototyping over the scripting languages, as that IDE lets me be more productive than the most scripting languages. (unless Its working with text, then Perl rocks)
I can't understand people who just use one language
(these thoughts were written because of too much coffee)
I agree on that! I saw the HHGTTG trailer before Sin City and I think that trailer was too good for the movie to totally suck.
why? Countries in Europe don't vote for their ministers, they just vote for their political party and the prime minister selects its cabinet. Does that damn the ministers?
This is exactly the same! Even though we didn't vote for each commissioner they are chosen as our representatives by the government. And the president of the EU-Commission is selected by the people we vote to the EU-Parliament.
Whoah! That is a very naive opinion on the EU.
I am very grateful to the EU as it is tying together all the countries in the continent that has suffered the most from wars in the last century. By making all the countries depend on each other in trade, none of them will ever think of going to war against each other again.
Now with the addition of eastern Europe, the EU can help the poorer countries of Europe create better living situation for their citizens.. that alone will make things so much easier for Europe's future.
Your "logic" sounds like the FUD that anti-everything use on any government or international organization they don't like these days. It is just not right.. Criticism is good, but bullshit just makes things worse.
but i agree with you, every PHP project i've seen is a mess compared to most Java projects.. the same with Object Oriented C code and OO C++ code.
Temple of Elemental Evil is the most unbalanced game i've ever played. It seemed so good when i started playing it, but went so bad so quick. It just wasn't balanced! and I have heard really bad things about Vampire too..
:)
I totally wrote Trokia off at that point. But i wanna try Arcanum, maybe I'll that game and play it this summer, just because they just closed
from the website;The solution was found at 22 ply deep (23 for the empty board).(searching 4.472.000.000 nodes in about 4 hours on a P4 2.0Ghz)
4-hours is on a single p4 machine is just a joke.. but good point though, solving a game takes alot of time. University of Alberta (Canada) have been working on solving checkers (which is a much simpler game) for years. I think they are about half done with that. They are just using search, as checkers has low branching factor compared to Go
Van der Werf also investigated learning techniques, which are used in games such as backgammon
I belivie this is the way to be able to create a decent Go program, by learning (Reinforcement Learning, because Backgammon techniques). Brute force search gets boring, no matter how advanced it is!
no, it means that we in Europe have to find better ways to make energy and consider cars that don't use 20L of fuel per 100km like the American red-neck pickups.
Kyoto means putting a price tag on pollution, forcing companies and goverments to find a cleaner way of doing things by making the easy ways that pollutes more cost more. By doing that we create a economical drive for cleaner solutions.
China and India have a lot of catching up to do, in a way they just started their industrial revolution.. thats why they are getting slack, not to squash North American industry.
eh? But what if the side that gets the bomb is stupid, or irresponsible? Saying that countries ruled by dictators should have nuclear bombs is like saying that if you give a baby a knife, it will begin to act responsibly and won't cut itself.
I know there are theories in political science that two democratic nations won't go to a war with each other.. and give every country the Bomb and they will act responsibly, but I'm not willing to bet my life on those theories.
I thought the biotech patents where given temporarily, 20 years or so, to the applicant. Not that I have formed an strong opinion on this, but for a biotech company to discover something, make an improved drug from it, get government approval of it and market it, 20 years isn't that much time, maybe max 5 years before the cheap replicas hit the market (in software, 20 years is like 5x the lifetime of a program)
The reason why I am not against biotech patents is because I see them as the drive for the market to invest its money in such a risky business. They have 20 years to make some money of it, but then their patent falls into public domain. Even though it's very sad to watch countries suffer a lot from diseases that can be cured by some expensive new drugs, I would imagine that many of these drugs wouldn't exists if the research where purely government driven.
I think we should let the biotech companies do the research in a capitalist manner, but the countries of the world shouldn't be shy to buy a lot of patented drugs for the third world countries or even buy the patent off the biotech company.
But hey, I haven't formed my opinion.. Please inform me.
I find reading this blog quite funny, as i have spent the last 3 hours updating my fathers laptop.. installing SP2, removing spyware with AdAware and rebooting 6-7 times. Hes just the regular computer user but his computer got all messed up because he wasn't sure why that update thingy kept popping up.
My finilization of this "update" is installing Mozilla Firefox, and replacing the Firefox icon with the IE icon. He will never notice, but it will save me the hell of "fixing" his computer in a couple of months.
afaik Dune II was the first RTS game, developed my Westwood in '92.. and they haven't changed much since.
(Westwood also did Command&Conquer and red alert, and every *craft just cloned those)
i don't get it. I use IntelliJ IDEA and Visual Studio every day.. and i think Visual Studio sucks! .. especially compared to IDEA.
Most of the time when i'm doing some C++ stuff, i log on to a Linux box and use VIM rather than using an IDE with bunch of freaking Windows constants and stuff in autocomplete.. (my vi-dictionary and CTRL-P and CTRL-N is better)
Every time i read that Visual Studio is a killer app, i suspect that it's Microsoft-Marketing posting..
yes, this technology can be used to fix every part of the Internet, it can even solve all of computer science problems!
They just don't bother to use it on more than one problem a year, selected carefully at random from a really big hat.
the real first parameter to every C++ member function is the (hidden and implicit) this pointer - not every member function, as static class functions don't need a this pointer
as you point out Object Oriented programmers can write OO code but that doesn't mean that the encapsulation that is possible with C++ can be used in C. The Linux code is a good example; it is Object Oriented but uses function pointers instead of virtual functions which makes it difficult to understand
Object Oriented design isn't Object Oriented programming.. it's just a part of it
I don't get it. Isn't Microsoft basically saying that the G5 architecture is better than the x86 that Windows runs on? == Mac is a better choice.
Well, I've reads these 'covers' in the kernel mailing lists, and they have just ended in brainless flamewars. Mostly because C developers don't like C++ and assume things.. and perhaps C++ developers have a hard time understanding that OO design with C isn't that hard.
the bottom line is; the code is complicated and it takes a lot of time to get into it! Even though you get nice coupling between systems with modular C programming, it does not mean that it couldn't be done better. If the slab memory allocation where easier to understand, then maybe it had more SMP support, with magazines for each CPU and stuff. That would be a great research project for graduate computer scientists...
I would like to see Linux written in C++. I've had to dig into the code a couple of times, and it's really not easy to understand what's happening under the hood,for example all those function pointers to that could be replaced by virtual functions. C++ being slower than C is a myth, it may have been true few years ago.. but not anymore.
The benefit of writing something like Linux in C++ is that the more complex things can be abstracted so they can be understood by more programmers and computer science students (or according to Open Source philosophy; more eyes, fewer bugs). Object orientation, instead of modular C programming, would also mean that it would be easier to refactor parts of the systems, which could ease things up for students that want to test their theories in action, and then donate them to Linux if they are better
C can be thought of as a subset of C++, so there is no reason to stop using neat C tricks (not everything should be an Object - C++ is not Java!). This isn't about stop low level programming. It should be about making the code more understandable. C and C++ can live happily together, but some Linux coders are just stubborn and won't stop using new as variable names and etc.
this combined with JavaSpaces is really intresting, like http://www.j-spaces.com/database1.htm . I don't understand why Prevayler has reached Slashdot two times now, when its nothing new..
also, this is more an DBMS alternative than a RDBMS as you have to make all the relations in you'r own code, but not in the "DBS".
my Compaq Presario kept giving me BSOD and sometimes rebooting while playing games that use DX/9 with ATI Radeon Mobile 7500 (eve-oneline).. and after one month of e-mailing ATI support (with over 20 e-mails of mostly bullshit from ATI and Compaq) i found a fix.. unofficial ATI drivers that are not from the laptop vendor (Compaq).
after this, i am never ever buying ATI again.. even though its not just their fault, Compaq should had supplied new drivers months ago, it just showed me that i shouldn't buy things from a company with bullshit drivers from vendors only policy.
I've missed the Radeon drivers since i bought this machine.. i guess i will miss them too when i'll try to switch to Linux next week!