I understand why it isn't in their interest to provide a good working integration to the OpenDocument format. That would kill them off and take a huge integration burden of an already free competitor.
No, Microsofts way is to embrace and extend and my bet is that they will find some way of doing that. Maybe they will claim that certain MS Word features is impossible to port to OpenDoc and they will add some extra tags for that or they will mangle the format so much it will hardly be recongnizable as the standard or something else.
I think a bad integration to OpenDoc might be more in their interest than none. That allows them to say: ok, we did the integration but the format is inferior and you will be better off using ours.
After reading the ubuntuforums for many hours I found out that you had to mute the "IEC958 Capture Monitor" with alsamixer.
No logic, no explanation.
Except for that and my troubles figuring out how to install software that is not RMS certified I am all happy.
I also belive that Ubuntu will show the way to wider adaption.
I don't, and havn't for a long time, used any software on windows that wouldn't run on a linux box. I only had trouble finding a distro where everything would actually work without more hassle than a w2k reinstall (and that is quite a bit).
Now, after googling it. I wonder why they are more expensive than a small MP3 player, plus a tape adapter and a 12v to USB Power adapter. -- maybe I'll just get that then...
Unit testing is a method you use to achive something. Is the current component very buggy and you need to rewrite it or do you need to extend production quality software without breaking existing functionality?
If you are testing a component try to figure out if it is possible to in some schematic way. If you can figure out a way for the "business" people to write the tests for you that will take a lot of knowledge off your shoulders.
If it is an existing component maybe you could explore if it is possible to make some mechanism that "records" actions to the component and then later be able to "replay" them and check if the results are the same with your new or changed component as the production quality one.
I recently started as a contractor on a J2EE project that has lots of problems. The application has a classic backend with lots of ugly EJB anti-patterns and everything. The frontend is a VB client that communicates via. a simple webservice. In a couple of days I was able to make a regression test engine that can save the xml-communication that our business-clever testers make to the server and then at any given time later run the same requests to the server and check if the responens match the originally recorded ones.
It works wonders and I now have free hands to clear out a lot of the technical mess while always having proof that I havn't broken anything.
Think about what your goals are. Then find the best tool to get there.
Design a small room where you keep the wireing and stuff. This is also the place you keep your computers.
Pull DVI cables for monitor and USB for the rest out to all rooms and you can have cool computers with just a flatscreen and keyboard + mouse. If you want the computer (like a laptop) in the room just go for wireless. Everything seems to point to the ethernet cables will be obsolete in a not so far future.
1. True they need to get close to 100%. However I think less than 100% clean can do it. Where I work we recently "upgraded" to Office 2003 and there was a couple of very important Word 97 documents that would cause Word 2003 to crash! So even Microsoft isn't perfect. I think switching is comparable to upgrading office. Technically anyways - there may be more FUD involved.
2. How is money for a reason. Upgrading office every two years isn't free you know.
3. I really really like being able to export to PDF. That is a killer feature for me. Exporting presentations to flash is also a cool idea. And did I mention free ? Having an open file format also makes it a hell of a lot easier to integrate with backoffice reporting systemes.
I don't dream of software that old.
Running stable is almost the same as not updating.
That's how I go about the problem on my gentoo server.
I works. But it is hardly a dream.
When people say something like that I always wonder what they do about their configuration scripts.
I run gentoo myself and I always find it painfull to keep trace of which scripts I edited (should be merged) and which ones I can just replace with the new default script.
When you are done and your heart is full of gratitude towards me and Joe because we gave you that great idea you can thank me by comming by and installing the first system on my home network.
I might have gotten it wrong, but from what I read the networked JDBC driver you use for Derby is the same as you use for remote-connecting to a DB2 server.
That would mean that your code will be closely compatable -- offering a nice migration path to a full DB2.
I think it sounds like a sweet way to boost DB2 sales.
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/download s/jcc/
Don't focus too much on what is in the box. If you really want the operator overloading you can get it from JFront as you mention yourself. So add that to the mix in a gentle way.
Here's what I would do:
1. Modulize all the heavy math stuff you do into a couple of well defined modules (or subprojects if you like that term better).
2. Have all other modules interact with the computation modules on a logical level where you work in terms of getBigResult(arg1, arg2).
3. On the math modules use ant: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant to preprocess the code on those modules with JFront before compiling.
That approach would allow you to use JFront and the sugar that provides without getting too painful for the rest of the project.
I thought that big linux companies like Novell and Sun announced that they would indemnify their customers a long time ago.
Why shouldn't it be safe for Munich to go on with the bidding process as long as they ensure that the bidder must indemnify them from patent claims on linux source code.
Let us all read up on some history and see where Reagonomics got you guys last time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the _United _States_(1980-1988)#The_recession_of_1982
The difference between Reagan and Bush seems to be that Reagan thought that a huge budget deficit was a bad thing and tried to control it by cutting gov. spending. Bush don't even seem to think that the deficit was a bad thing at all.
has all been available for several years without being made a JSR.
What qualifies groovy to become a JSR instead of them ? Isn't choice good.
IBM has open sourced a framework called BSF http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/ that allows for integrating scripting languages into java. I could see why THAT would be promoted to a JSR -- not a specific scripting language.
As the name suggests it looks like groovy is just a couple of guys who have been playing around with tossing "groovy" language features into their homegrown scripting langugage. Cool, interesting but why make it part of the big package ?
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If she did the driving, you should have done the navigating.
So it would have been you that should have kept her clear of the design holes you got.
If you just lets a novice program alone, expect that you have to rewrite it.
Let's go plant some trees then.
It is a pretty safe bet that 1 million trees are way cheaper than Sun technology.
I understand why it isn't in their interest to provide a good working integration to the OpenDocument format. That would kill them off and take a huge integration burden of an already free competitor.
No, Microsofts way is to embrace and extend and my bet is that they will find some way of doing that. Maybe they will claim that certain MS Word features is impossible to port to OpenDoc and they will add some extra tags for that or they will mangle the format so much it will hardly be recongnizable as the standard or something else.
I think a bad integration to OpenDoc might be more in their interest than none. That allows them to say: ok, we did the integration but the format is inferior and you will be better off using ours.
After reading the ubuntuforums for many hours I found out that you had to mute the "IEC958 Capture Monitor" with alsamixer.
No logic, no explanation.
Except for that and my troubles figuring out how to install software that is not RMS certified I am all happy.
I also belive that Ubuntu will show the way to wider adaption.
I don't, and havn't for a long time, used any software on windows that wouldn't run on a linux box. I only had trouble finding a distro where everything would actually work without more hassle than a w2k reinstall (and that is quite a bit).
$10m will make sound work out of the box :p
Fair enough. I should've googled it better.
...
Now, after googling it. I wonder why they are more expensive than a small MP3 player, plus a tape adapter and a 12v to USB Power adapter.
-- maybe I'll just get that then
I have seen that you can get adapters for connecting a MP3 player through the cassette via. a "adapter tape".
What I don't understand is why nobody makes a cassette that contains a tiny MP3 player and eats a memory stick.
Cool product for all us who a not blessed with the latest and greatest in car-radios and also don't want a portable MP3 player.
Unit testing is a method you use to achive something. Is the current component very buggy and you need to rewrite it or do you need to extend production quality software without breaking existing functionality?
If you are testing a component try to figure out if it is possible to in some schematic way. If you can figure out a way for the "business" people to write the tests for you that will take a lot of knowledge off your shoulders.
If it is an existing component maybe you could explore if it is possible to make some mechanism that "records" actions to the component and then later be able to "replay" them and check if the results are the same with your new or changed component as the production quality one.
I recently started as a contractor on a J2EE project that has lots of problems. The application has a classic backend with lots of ugly EJB anti-patterns and everything. The frontend is a VB client that communicates via. a simple webservice.
In a couple of days I was able to make a regression test engine that can save the xml-communication that our business-clever testers make to the server and then at any given time later run the same requests to the server and check if the responens match the originally recorded ones.
It works wonders and I now have free hands to clear out a lot of the technical mess while always having proof that I havn't broken anything.
Think about what your goals are. Then find the best tool to get there.
All the demos are fixed size apps.
They look cool but it isn't cool that they don't scale like we are used to html based application do.
Is it hard to make the Laszlo applications scale with the browser window??
I'd say they only make sense for an application where you want to browse the network "live" but they are pretty damn cool.
http://hypertree.sourceforge.net/
Screenshot
http://hypertree.sourceforge.net/hypertree1.jpg
Sadly the project puts light on some sad consequences of the current EU software patents debate.
I can see from the screenshots that they provide the debugger as an eclipse plugin.
Does that include a C programming environment for eclipse or do they use the CPE project? I didn't know that was at a usable state yet.
I use eclipse for java and it is excellent.
Design a small room where you keep the wireing and stuff. This is also the place you keep your computers.
Pull DVI cables for monitor and USB for the rest out to all rooms and you can have cool computers with just a flatscreen and keyboard + mouse. If you want the computer (like a laptop) in the room just go for wireless. Everything seems to point to the ethernet cables will be obsolete in a not so far future.
Did Sollog predict this one ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sollog
http://www.sollog.com/
The stuff they have online is all "predictions" of stuff that happened in the past. If you want about the future you have to subscribe.
1. True they need to get close to 100%. However I think less than 100% clean can do it. Where I work we recently "upgraded" to Office 2003 and there was a couple of very important Word 97 documents that would cause Word 2003 to crash! So even Microsoft isn't perfect. I think switching is comparable to upgrading office. Technically anyways - there may be more FUD involved.
2. How is money for a reason. Upgrading office every two years isn't free you know.
3. I really really like being able to export to PDF. That is a killer feature for me. Exporting presentations to flash is also a cool idea. And did I mention free ? Having an open file format also makes it a hell of a lot easier to integrate with backoffice reporting systemes.
I don't dream of software that old. Running stable is almost the same as not updating. That's how I go about the problem on my gentoo server. I works. But it is hardly a dream.
When people say something like that I always wonder what they do about their configuration scripts.
I run gentoo myself and I always find it painfull to keep trace of which scripts I edited (should be merged) and which ones I can just replace with the new default script.
You guys go build a trouble free linux.
When you are done and your heart is full of gratitude towards me and Joe because we gave you that great idea you can thank me by comming by and installing the first system on my home network.
I might have gotten it wrong, but from what I read the networked JDBC driver you use for Derby is the same as you use for remote-connecting to a DB2 server. That would mean that your code will be closely compatable -- offering a nice migration path to a full DB2. I think it sounds like a sweet way to boost DB2 sales. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/download s/jcc/
Don't focus too much on what is in the box. If you really want the operator overloading you can get it from JFront as you mention yourself. So add that to the mix in a gentle way.
Here's what I would do:
1. Modulize all the heavy math stuff you do into a couple of well defined modules (or subprojects if you like that term better).
2. Have all other modules interact with the computation modules on a logical level where you work in terms of getBigResult(arg1, arg2).
3. On the math modules use ant: http://jakarta.apache.org/ant to preprocess the code on those modules with JFront before compiling.
That approach would allow you to use JFront and the sugar that provides without getting too painful for the rest of the project.
1. Make new release 2. Announce that old version sucks 3. Reach 1000000 downloads faaast 4. ? 5. Profit!
I thought that big linux companies like Novell and Sun announced that they would indemnify their customers a long time ago. Why shouldn't it be safe for Munich to go on with the bidding process as long as they ensure that the bidder must indemnify them from patent claims on linux source code.
Let us all read up on some history and see where Reagonomics got you guys last time:e _United _States_(1980-1988)#The_recession_of_1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_th
The difference between Reagan and Bush seems to be that Reagan thought that a huge budget deficit was a bad thing and tried to control it by cutting gov. spending.
Bush don't even seem to think that the deficit was a bad thing at all.
There are many other scripting languages for java than groovy.
Beanshell (Lightweight Java)
http://www.beanshell.org/
JavaScript (Rhino)
http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
Python (Jython)
http://www.jython.org/
Ryby (JRuby)
http://jruby.sourceforge.net/
has all been available for several years without being made a JSR.
What qualifies groovy to become a JSR instead of them ? Isn't choice good.
IBM has open sourced a framework called BSF
http://jakarta.apache.org/bsf/
that allows for integrating scripting languages into java. I could see why THAT would be promoted to a JSR -- not a specific scripting language.
As the name suggests it looks like groovy is just a couple of guys who have been playing around with tossing "groovy" language features into their homegrown scripting langugage. Cool, interesting but why make it part of the big package ?
It looks like robocop 0 to me.
Easy to get started. Worth a try.
http://www.carrionfields.com/
Free, Big, Old, Playerkilling and mandatory roleplay
And the best part is that you can find 95% of it mapped here:
http://www.lldata.dk/dikuclan
Have fun.