IDE - Editor or round trip engineering tool?
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Well, as always, the text editor itself is really up to you - I use the ubiquitous emacs along with the fantastic jdee IDE that installs inside emacs for syntax highlighting, quick toolbar access to your classes, and easy creation of class from templates.
If you are serious about writing good OO componentised java though, its almost essential now to use a decent UML tool during the design stages and further like rational rose / together.
One of the nice things about together is that it works by placing javadoc comments inside your java - so your design documentation is never out of step with your source. Invaluable.
I don't work for together - but I do find their tool helps me visualise the workings of complex systems without remembering all the methods and stuff.
So if I had to put a finger on it - let developers choose their editor/IDE themselves, but get all developers to use a UML tool independant of the IDE.
Now, if that doesn't rate an insightfull, I don't know what does. UNIX has been an operating system only used by techies for a few thousand years - scary thing is, that it took Apple to make it mainstream. Microsoft originally new what a market UNIX had, and lost it with Xenix. Since then, they've been following the embrace and extend route (why the fsck did dos have \ and not / in its repertoir ?!).
UNIX seems to be making a comeback recently, and both you and I are to blame. Fact is, techies love UNIX - and here we get on to religion. Linux isn't about whos better, its more about what gives more power to me 'Joe Sysadmin' as a user.
Winblows has an uphill battle to fight against this sort of evangelism
HP has been working with Amazon since October 1999, Balma said, but the big contract win came in May 2000, when HP announced its systems would replace Unix servers from Sun Microsystems.
HP helped Amazon migrate its customized software from the earlier servers to the Linux servers that dish up Web pages as well as to higher-end HP Unix servers for the heavy-duty systems nearer the heart of the operation, Balma said. "They're basically an all-HP shop."
Red Hat spearheaded Amazon's switch over to Linux, said Billy Marshall, vice president of enterprise sales and marketing for the Durham, N.C., company.
Anusflange queries: "I recently was transitioned into a humping egotist by my employer. I had been over emphasising my involvement with development and architecture, for some time. It appears my new duties allow me more channels in which to polish my ego. The company has agreed that I can use company headed fax paper with 'Software architect evangalist god' when I only have skills in notepad++. At not even 28 years old, I'm already a self-opinionated wanker and have people with twenty years more experience hoping that I have an accident on the way to work. Over that past year with my employer, I've expended much effort on absolving myself of any responsibity with other groups in the organization, sure to carry me far as an architect. Since I've already resolved that management is not a track I want to get into, whats my best way to masturbate in public? What do I need to do to make sure all the women in the office love me, and all the developers worship my ability with the DOS prompt, as I'll be spending less time in the bits and bytes? Any tips from those who have made the transition from development to architecture are appreciated, but more than anything, I'd love anyone who isn't as fortunate as me, both intellectually, and finacially, to know how well off I am."
But isn't that what a good architect should be doing? Systems architecture is (as far as I can tell - I'm a sour old puss in the IT world) something that is invariably code-independant. I like to think of it in a similar way to algorythms. Leave the actual implementation up to your developers and coders - but the overall architecture comes from an architect taking into account the business domain knowledge and marketing requirements.
Maybe my understanding of architect is different to yours.
I don't feel that a coder/developer however good is a real architect until they architect without thinking about the code.
Thats what the design/component methodologies are all about - you do your design and architecture first, and leave the implementation as an exercise for your coders. Thats not to say that the coding is easy.
Yeah, Jesus christ, I swear I worked with this guy at a software company in Brussels. He got all 'haughty taughty' and couldn't see he was ever wrong and he was a real pain in the ass to work with. Someone else posted about a 'prima donna'. Those were the exact words from my manager about this guy.
Architects/technical leads are crucial to having a successful modern software company, but very few companies understand what skills the role requires (wide business analytical skills, broad systems analysis, strong people skills) - notice the keyword coding isnt in here.
Coding skills do not an architect make.
^^ Link above is redirect to some goatse.cx frames
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And like and fool, our Mr Ham fell for it.
Don't click. Don't. I know you want to, but don't do it.
Nice parody of the Ronseal ad seen in the uk a while back.
Mr Spams
Re:The dialy turd report
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XBox Delayed
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What a turd-tacular story.
Do any other readers have anecdotes about the last time they were 'bunged up', or 'chocking at the chain' to 'deliver the papers'.
Write to the normal address, marking your envelope
> Anyone who runs ANY server but is 5 months
> behind on security updates is an absolute
> MORON, and deserves to be hit with a worm. It's
> easy to blame MS for all their "security
> holes", but folks...these have been patched for
> a while now...
Please explain how this helps the chap earlier in this thread who has to pay for his bandwidth (hes located in Australia from what I recall).
He's paying because these idiots are loose on the net with an operating system that _doesn't_ shield them from it.
And you know what, these people dont even know its a problem.
Thats what our gripe is with Microsoft, dummy, not that people dont patch. Of course you patch, if your a techie.
If you are like 'n' of my late twenty something graduate friends, you think ADSL is 'great' cos its always on. So I can leave the machine on.
Don't xrays wipe drives? I think I can see the hard drive in the xray - in the middle at the bottom - the CD drive is on the left, and the batteries are on the right I reckon.
Anyone know what effects XRays have on magnetic media? I always used to post floppies with a 'magnetic media, do not xray' sticker on em?
SSL is merely about encryption of data in transit, along with a mechanism for authentication of the client and server parties.
The certificate you are mentioning is PKI - public key infrastructure. This means that the information has been signed using a mechanism that cannot be easily be spoofed.
This is very different to using SSL. SSL includes the ability to do this, using some of the algorythms supported as part of SSL.
It's not SSL that provides the certificate based kicking/banning or assertion that these CDROMS are genuine, thats a factor of the encryption signing algoryths that SSL supports. If you think thats SSL, please read the papers surround the technology.
Thing is, one of things that lets the commodity hardware market evolve so fast is just that - it's commodity hardware. Standard sizings/interconnects mean the cost handed down to you and me is massively reduced. Thats why SGI charge so much for their o-so-sexy hardware.
The correct term, I believe is tele-dildonics. Originally coined in the era where that chap with the glove existed. It was talked about as much as it is today, with just as many products on the market, as are today.
As far as I can tell, the only new tidbits of information contained in the article, are the use of SourceForge as their repository mechanism.
I tried the preview with Alice game demo, and was pleasantly suprised, but the frame rate was still sucko compared to under win98.
Its a shame that linux is still light years behind in game dev - I've got Revelator 3d glasses and i don't think the support for these will be coming anytime soon.....
Forgive the usual 'rehash of old technology rant', but didn't Sun themselves come out with an 'every device on a network offers up services to be consumed by other network service devices/providers'.
It was released about 2 years ago and it's called Jini as I remember.
Ok, i give the many languages angle is nice. All the other marketroid gibberish is FUD tho.
http://www.sun.com/jini/overview/
If it really differs from this, show me how. I don't see it myself.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, as always, the text editor itself is really up to you - I use the ubiquitous emacs along with the fantastic jdee IDE that installs inside emacs for syntax highlighting, quick toolbar access to your classes, and easy creation of class from templates.
If you are serious about writing good OO componentised java though, its almost essential now to use a decent UML tool during the design stages and further like rational rose / together.
One of the nice things about together is that it works by placing javadoc comments inside your java - so your design documentation is never out of step with your source. Invaluable.
I don't work for together - but I do find their tool helps me visualise the workings of complex systems without remembering all the methods and stuff.
So if I had to put a finger on it - let developers choose their editor/IDE themselves, but get all developers to use a UML tool independant of the IDE.
Mr Thinly Sliced
Now, if that doesn't rate an insightfull, I don't know what does. UNIX has been an operating system only used by techies for a few thousand years - scary thing is, that it took Apple to make it mainstream. Microsoft originally new what a market UNIX had, and lost it with Xenix. Since then, they've been following the embrace and extend route (why the fsck did dos have \ and not / in its repertoir ?!).
UNIX seems to be making a comeback recently, and both you and I are to blame. Fact is, techies love UNIX - and here we get on to religion. Linux isn't about whos better, its more about what gives more power to me 'Joe Sysadmin' as a user.
Winblows has an uphill battle to fight against this sort of evangelism
From the article:
HP has been working with Amazon since October 1999, Balma said, but the big contract win came in May 2000, when HP announced its systems would replace Unix servers from Sun Microsystems.
HP helped Amazon migrate its customized software from the earlier servers to the Linux servers that dish up Web pages as well as to higher-end HP Unix servers for the heavy-duty systems nearer the heart of the operation, Balma said. "They're basically an all-HP shop."
Red Hat spearheaded Amazon's switch over to Linux, said Billy Marshall, vice president of enterprise sales and marketing for the Durham, N.C., company.
Er - did you read it? They were running solaris boxes before they switched over to HP boxes with a custom Redhat install.
I didn't see Micro$oft (or any other overpriced GUI OS) mentioned anywhere. Please try and at least contribute something, not just air.
Anusflange queries: "I recently was transitioned into a humping egotist by my employer. I had been over emphasising my involvement with development and architecture, for some time. It appears my new duties allow me more channels in which to polish my ego. The company has agreed that I can use company headed fax paper with 'Software architect evangalist god' when I only have skills in notepad++. At not even 28 years old, I'm already a self-opinionated wanker and have people with twenty years more experience hoping that I have an accident on the way to work. Over that past year with my employer, I've expended much effort on absolving myself of any responsibity with other groups in the organization, sure to carry me far as an architect. Since I've already resolved that management is not a track I want to get into, whats my best way to masturbate in public? What do I need to do to make sure all the women in the office love me, and all the developers worship my ability with the DOS prompt, as I'll be spending less time in the bits and bytes? Any tips from those who have made the transition from development to architecture are appreciated, but more than anything, I'd love anyone who isn't as fortunate as me, both intellectually, and finacially, to know how well off I am."
Elvis
Makes
All
Computer
Software
I can't wait to show the girlfriend. Shes gonna go nuts like that time I wiped my dick on the curtains.
Maybe my understanding of architect is different to yours.
I don't feel that a coder/developer however good is a real architect until they architect without thinking about the code.
Thats what the design/component methodologies are all about - you do your design and architecture first, and leave the implementation as an exercise for your coders. Thats not to say that the coding is easy.
Architects/technical leads are crucial to having a successful modern software company, but very few companies understand what skills the role requires (wide business analytical skills, broad systems analysis, strong people skills) - notice the keyword coding isnt in here.
Coding skills do not an architect make.
And like and fool, our Mr Ham fell for it.
Don't click. Don't. I know you want to, but don't do it.
Have a peek at the advert on their homepage.
Nice parody of the Ronseal ad seen in the uk a while back.
Mr Spams
What a turd-tacular story.
Do any other readers have anecdotes about the last time they were 'bunged up', or 'chocking at the chain' to 'deliver the papers'.
Write to the normal address, marking your envelope
'Turds For Freedom'
> behind on security updates is an absolute
> MORON, and deserves to be hit with a worm. It's
> easy to blame MS for all their "security
> holes", but folks...these have been patched for
> a while now...
Please explain how this helps the chap earlier in this thread who has to pay for his bandwidth (hes located in Australia from what I recall).
He's paying because these idiots are loose on the net with an operating system that _doesn't_ shield them from it.
And you know what, these people dont even know its a problem.
Thats what our gripe is with Microsoft, dummy, not that people dont patch. Of course you patch, if your a techie.
If you are like 'n' of my late twenty something graduate friends, you think ADSL is 'great' cos its always on. So I can leave the machine on.
I say 'IIS is in by default'
IIS is on by default?
Whats IIS?
Jesus.
Piss. Your right. Left. Dammit.
That would seem logical - but you don't see the guys at airports stood behind lead screens.
Last time I was in hospital (I'm fatally allergic to wasp stings), the X-ray machine is operated by a nurse like 20 feet away behind a lead screen.
Also, there is a maximum number of medical xrays you can have before you get 'your dose'.
But those nutty security guards stand there all day scanning underwear for a living.
Which tends to make me think the medical ones are a wee bit more powerful.
Are the xray machines used by airports the same as medical imaging xray units?
The one they used was a medical imager...
Just curious if they are the same strength....
Don't xrays wipe drives? I think I can see the hard drive in the xray - in the middle at the bottom - the CD drive is on the left, and the batteries are on the right I reckon.
Anyone know what effects XRays have on magnetic media? I always used to post floppies with a 'magnetic media, do not xray' sticker on em?
Fantastic images tho.
SSL is merely about encryption of data in transit, along with a mechanism for authentication of the client and server parties.
The certificate you are mentioning is PKI - public key infrastructure. This means that the information has been signed using a mechanism that cannot be easily be spoofed.
This is very different to using SSL. SSL includes the ability to do this, using some of the algorythms supported as part of SSL.
It's not SSL that provides the certificate based kicking/banning or assertion that these CDROMS are genuine, thats a factor of the encryption signing algoryths that SSL supports. If you think thats SSL, please read the papers surround the technology.
You lovely man,
Dan
Is it me, but the article says that SSL is used to prevent the copying of games?
When I last checked SSL stood for Secure Socket Layer. As in sockets. TCP/IP ones.
Still, using SSL for the communications to online gaming servers should slow down the hack-a-bility we've all seen to often on Counterstrike et-al.
Have a peek-e-poops at SGIs NUMA technolgy - it's basically what your describing, but not in cubes.
:-)
All SGI has to do now is read this post.....
ccNUMA
Thing is, one of things that lets the commodity hardware market evolve so fast is just that - it's commodity hardware. Standard sizings/interconnects mean the cost handed down to you and me is massively reduced. Thats why SGI charge so much for their o-so-sexy hardware.
Enjoy.
Spams.
The correct term, I believe is tele-dildonics. Originally coined in the era where that chap with the glove existed. It was talked about as much as it is today, with just as many products on the market, as are today.
Moderators - mod this up, this has got to be the funniest thing I've seen in my entire life. Really.
As far as I can tell, the only new tidbits of information contained in the article, are the use of SourceForge as their repository mechanism.
I tried the preview with Alice game demo, and was pleasantly suprised, but the frame rate was still sucko compared to under win98.
Its a shame that linux is still light years behind in game dev - I've got Revelator 3d glasses and i don't think the support for these will be coming anytime soon.....
Forgive the usual 'rehash of old technology rant', but didn't Sun themselves come out with an 'every device on a network offers up services to be consumed by other network service devices/providers'.
It was released about 2 years ago and it's called Jini as I remember.
Ok, i give the many languages angle is nice. All the other marketroid gibberish is FUD tho.
http://www.sun.com/jini/overview/
If it really differs from this, show me how. I don't see it myself.
Slice is nice