It seems that more people are starting to realize the problems you've mentioned. I have always been amazed that practically every feature I could ever want is in Hibernate but at the end of the day knowledge that would have been gained about the underlying database is just replaced with Hibernate trivia.
The two things that always amaze across projects is how little people understand hibernate's Session (sometimes not at all!) and how people fall in to the trap of creating huge object graphs. Developers often don't see passed the mapping and querying concepts despite it only being half the story.
JavaFX is aimed at emerging markets - mobile and set top box. This is going to be around for a while but has been very slow off the mark (notably lack of Linux support - I'm not talking desktop here!) and needs a kick up the backside.
I'm not sure if Glassfish will survive in the long run. It has some great components, like grizzly, that will survive but at the other end of the scale it has parts that should be put down, like MQ.
European countries are very small, and Movies/Sport rights are sold by countries. That means that if you want BskyB in France, you can't except by a portage via an UK address
I've been using the Mediaplayer Connectivity extension - it doesn't actually work with media players (in Linux) but it's possible to save the link without having to go searching for it.
That article took ages to get approval from the management at ATi (~two months) - if they're that paranoid about releasing information on their release cycle then I don't think we stand a chance of getting any open source/specs from them.
Whether an app is part of an OS is hard to tell as there is no clear line. What I will say is that _I_ am running Debian and as part of that 'product' I have GIMP and it's fully supported. The only fully supported graphics app with the Windows product is.... Paint. What's unfair about this?
I've recently started using Windoze again for my new job and the amount of features I consider missing is rediculous. So far I have installed the following unsupported apps...
I'm still looking for a decent text editor(!?!), media player, clipboard viewer.
And I don't want to hear any stupid arguments about normal people not needing a unix tools. I created one-liner yesterday to summarize some logs that people used to manually examine (and roughly). My boss is concerned with productivity and this took about 60 seconds. (As far as my scripting skills go they are pretty shoddy too!)
As a regular user of both for years (under KDE) I don't think I could pick a winner either.
Opera - faaaast ui, good interface, shift-f11, fewer plugin problems
FF - socks support, extensions, works with difficult pages, free
FF has more little things that annoy me - is there an easy way to increase the size of the Google search box?
If you really have no real control over the network then I'd suggest running a propaganda campaign warning of a virus that is rapidly going around that is wiping peoples' drives and their silly history-of-art dissertations.
Stick up flyers and new ones each week until people start _thinking_ about their security. People use social engineering to hack so why not to protect?
The only explanation I can hope for is that the govt has made the tax so rediculous that it brings normal people to the debate. The trouble at the moment is that the majority of people don't realise what theiving bastards the record companies are.
I've seen too many clowns in the industry who think they can write a functional spec. I'm not saying they are useless but I think it's safer for most small-medium sized projects to do without them
In my mind there should be a business plan a technical spec and prototypes.
Hibernate in Action is the best available I think. I flicked through "Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide" in a bookshop and didn't think it would teach me much - however it might be a better book as an introduction to hibernate. (It certainly looked better than "Hibernate: a developer's notebook")
I did like HiA but it still left me wanting more. A lot of the book spent time talking about common design patterns where I would have liked to see a bit more Hibernate/DB theory.
Yeah, I suppose a lot of the perfomance was due to having a good Voodoo3 card so as far as a guarantee you're right. I'll have to upgrade that box now as 3.4 seems to be quicker again!
My drive is suspended with some elastic which is tied through the screw holes in a 5.25 bay. None of the vibration gets through to the case and it is surprisingly sturdy. Definately worth doing!
Openoffice seems to be a prime example of how difficult it is to fix the problem of a monopoly. I mean how good does it have to get to be considered suitable for the average office bod?
Hopefully this release will be able to get more attention in the media.
Slashdot Mirror
As the title. So much design must go in to these boards but all of the cases look awful. :-(
It seems that more people are starting to realize the problems you've mentioned. I have always been amazed that practically every feature I could ever want is in Hibernate but at the end of the day knowledge that would have been gained about the underlying database is just replaced with Hibernate trivia.
The two things that always amaze across projects is how little people understand hibernate's Session (sometimes not at all!) and how people fall in to the trap of creating huge object graphs. Developers often don't see passed the mapping and querying concepts despite it only being half the story.
JavaFX is aimed at emerging markets - mobile and set top box. This is going to be around for a while but has been very slow off the mark (notably lack of Linux support - I'm not talking desktop here!) and needs a kick up the backside.
I'm not sure if Glassfish will survive in the long run. It has some great components, like grizzly, that will survive but at the other end of the scale it has parts that should be put down, like MQ.
The only reason Sony let this happen was to try to have the platform classified as a 'computer' in the EU - because of tax.
Sony tries so hard to lock up its platform that their offerings were laughable...
http://www.edge-online.com/news/kutaragi-details-ps3-computer-claim
Apparently it is better... http://crave.cnet.co.uk/laptops/0,39029450,49296534-5,00.htm
The speakers are now on the bottom.
I've been using the Mediaplayer Connectivity extension - it doesn't actually work with media players (in Linux) but it's possible to save the link without having to go searching for it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/446
That article took ages to get approval from the management at ATi (~two months) - if they're that paranoid about releasing information on their release cycle then I don't think we stand a chance of getting any open source/specs from them.
Like kexi
(Disclaimer: I've never used either so I may be way off)
I couldn't get FF to use my proxy at work either so now use ntlmaps. It's a python script that runs on a local port.
It's handy for other apps that don't support dumb protocols too and totally necessary when I'm in my favourite OS.
Maybe wine can help with...
Ok, maybe it's non-trivial but I kind of like the thought of replacing as many of the Windows libs with winelibs until it's all open source.
Whether an app is part of an OS is hard to tell as there is no clear line. What I will say is that _I_ am running Debian and as part of that 'product' I have GIMP and it's fully supported. The only fully supported graphics app with the Windows product is.... Paint. What's unfair about this?
I've recently started using Windoze again for my new job and the amount of features I consider missing is rediculous. So far I have installed the following unsupported apps...
I'm still looking for a decent text editor(!?!), media player, clipboard viewer.
And I don't want to hear any stupid arguments about normal people not needing a unix tools. I created one-liner yesterday to summarize some logs that people used to manually examine (and roughly). My boss is concerned with productivity and this took about 60 seconds. (As far as my scripting skills go they are pretty shoddy too!)
Thanks! (I also tried the extension mentioned below but it doesn't work with 1.0.4)
As a regular user of both for years (under KDE) I don't think I could pick a winner either. Opera - faaaast ui, good interface, shift-f11, fewer plugin problems FF - socks support, extensions, works with difficult pages, free FF has more little things that annoy me - is there an easy way to increase the size of the Google search box?
If you really have no real control over the network then I'd suggest running a propaganda campaign warning of a virus that is rapidly going around that is wiping peoples' drives and their silly history-of-art dissertations.
Stick up flyers and new ones each week until people start _thinking_ about their security. People use social engineering to hack so why not to protect?
The only explanation I can hope for is that the govt has made the tax so rediculous that it brings normal people to the debate. The trouble at the moment is that the majority of people don't realise what theiving bastards the record companies are.
If you haven't seen the following they are pretty interesting...
ClasspathShowcase
GTK development in native eclipse
For the impatient...
Was the reverse engineering being done on a live server? and was that being supported by BitMover?
I've seen too many clowns in the industry who think they can write a functional spec. I'm not saying they are useless but I think it's safer for most small-medium sized projects to do without them
In my mind there should be a business plan a technical spec and prototypes.
Hibernate in Action is the best available I think. I flicked through "Hibernate: A J2EE Developer's Guide" in a bookshop and didn't think it would teach me much - however it might be a better book as an introduction to hibernate. (It certainly looked better than "Hibernate: a developer's notebook")
I did like HiA but it still left me wanting more. A lot of the book spent time talking about common design patterns where I would have liked to see a bit more Hibernate/DB theory.
Yeah, I suppose a lot of the perfomance was due to having a good Voodoo3 card so as far as a guarantee you're right. I'll have to upgrade that box now as 3.4 seems to be quicker again!
It's fine on hardware older than four years. I recently built a KDE 3.3 desktop for someone on an old PII 450 and it felt really smooth.
I was genuinly impressed and wished I could send the state of the hdd back in time when I used the machine for my studies >6 years ago.
My drive is suspended with some elastic which is tied through the screw holes in a 5.25 bay. None of the vibration gets through to the case and it is surprisingly sturdy. Definately worth doing!
And yes, I'm another who only buys Seagate.
Openoffice seems to be a prime example of how difficult it is to fix the problem of a monopoly. I mean how good does it have to get to be considered suitable for the average office bod?
Hopefully this release will be able to get more attention in the media.