[The Java Posse] Re: Flash safe for now: no standard video/audio codecs in HTML 5

2009-07-06 Thread Joe Data
Some comments: - I don't have a Mac, but I doubt that Flash in general sucks on the Mac - after all, most Flash designers probably use the Mac, so Adobe has an incentive. - Bandwidth is not free, especially for high-def video, so saving bandwidth means saving money. You not only pay for the bandw

[The Java Posse] Scala limerick

2009-07-06 Thread dismal_denizen
There once was a man named Scala, Who used to ride on an impala. One day it's tail did recurse, And what is worse, It ran away with a chap called Vala. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse"

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-06 Thread Casper Bang
On 7 Jul., 01:37, Peter Becker wrote: > Casper Bang wrote: > If you are stepping through code, you can open the context menu of any > frame in the stacktrace of the "Debug" window and call "Drop to Frame". > That takes your code back one level. Oh did not know that, thanks for the pointer, gonna

[The Java Posse] Re: I'd love to use Netbeans but...

2009-07-06 Thread John Russell
Curses - ah well. Warning - could not install some modules: Change state of Read-Write-Access - The module named org.netbeans.modules.editor.deprecated.pre61completion/0 was needed and not found. On Jul 6, 8:58 pm, John Russell wrote: > You don't have to sell me, just the other 10,000 developer

[The Java Posse] Re: I'd love to use Netbeans but...

2009-07-06 Thread John Russell
You don't have to sell me, just the other 10,000 developers and execs :-/ On Jul 5, 11:39 pm, Frederic Simon wrote: > Push for subversion migration :) > Always a big success > > > > On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:02 PM, John Russell wrote: > > > We use clearcase at work and the only option for so

[The Java Posse] Re: I'd love to use Netbeans but...

2009-07-06 Thread John Russell
Oo oo this looks perfect. I'll try it out. Thanks. On Jul 6, 12:03 am, Eugene Ho wrote: > You could try this plugin > > http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?p... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subsc

[The Java Posse] Re: I'd love to use Netbeans but...

2009-07-06 Thread John Russell
Those look great, unfortunately, and I know I'm piling on the whine here, I'm using a mac which has no native clearcase client. That's why I'm using the Remote Clearcase plugin for eclipse which simulates snapshot views where all the actual clearcase fun is pushed off to a web server where CC is

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Becker
Casper Bang wrote: [...] >> 1. The language itself is just one part that is important, but there >> are other major "players" here: The IDE and it's stability, the core >> libraries, other 3rd-party libraries available and the community to >> name a few. For me NetBeans was the clear winner here

[The Java Posse] Re: OT: Opinions on Mono

2009-07-06 Thread Casper Bang
Well good news to those in fear of Microsoft legislation. Mono will be split in ECMA C#/Mono and non-ECMA parts: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-06.html On 3 Jul., 01:21, Peter Becker wrote: > I use a few Java desktop applications and none of them show orange > windows and security dial

[The Java Posse] Re: GWT supported browsers

2009-07-06 Thread Casper Bang
I think most people use GWT for internal/intranet applications where the browser deployment is known and can be controlled. This is in contract to wide spectred Internet sites primarily deemed for mass consumption where the model lives on the server. For the latter, people usually use Wicket, JSF,

[The Java Posse] GWT supported browsers

2009-07-06 Thread Ido
Hey Dick (and the rest), I'm not sure that GWT developers needs much more then: "...GWT applications automatically support IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera with no browser detection..." It's true, that it would have been much better to get a look on it's issues per browser version, for ex

[The Java Posse] Java/BI Developer Opening in Little Rock

2009-07-06 Thread Greg Reddin
I hope it's appropriate to post this sort of thing here. If not, please e-flog me and I'll discontinue my miscreant behavior :-) If you are a Java developer in Arkansas with some BI experience we have an opening. Our ideal candidate would be somebody who has experience in both business intelligen

[The Java Posse] James Strachan on Scala

2009-07-06 Thread ad
"I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy." http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~

[The Java Posse] Re: There once was a lang called ...

2009-07-06 Thread Habanero
There one was a language called scala Used by Dick at the scripting bowl gala If you've not seen the movie It just lost to The Groovy Though it ran like a sprinting impala --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-06 Thread Casper Bang
> I am quite new to Java, but I looked at different languages for quite > a while before I have definitely decided to switch to Java (despite > the fact that most people in my near want to convince me to .NET) for > new projects. Hmm time for the Matrix mantra "Welcome to the real world"? ;) > 1

[The Java Posse] !!

2009-07-06 Thread kirk
> > 2. Introducing too many different idioms to the language itself makes > it more difficult to learn and creates boilerplate thinking when > writing and reviewing code. So I can understand if people think many > times before adding some new stuff to the Java core language. Having > said that I

[The Java Posse] Re: Add google site to google search

2009-07-06 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > Funny characters ? You mean the arcade-game-style "JavaFX Machina" ? > That's a bitmap image. > > Maybe there's a copyright on the cpu image I used ? ;-) > I second wojciech's advice - why don't you blog about the samples? I see that you've got three blogs, but they are mo

[The Java Posse] Re: Flash safe for now: no standard video/audio codecs in HTML 5

2009-07-06 Thread mbien
I see it as opportunity for proprietary technologies like silverlight or javafx to serve as fallback mode for browsers not supporting the video tag/codec. It is very easy to implement and you don't have to transcode to a different format: http://michael-bien.com/mbien/entry/using_applets_as_fallb

[The Java Posse] Re: Add google site to google search

2009-07-06 Thread Jan Goyvaerts
Funny characters ? You mean the arcade-game-style "JavaFX Machina" ? That's a bitmap image. Maybe there's a copyright on the cpu image I used ? ;-) On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, wojciech.halicki.piszko < wojciech.halicki.pis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You have to be patient and try to make links

[The Java Posse] Re: Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Schulz
On 6 Jul., 11:28, Martin Wildam wrote: > In several podcasts the future of the Java language is discussed. > People look at new(er) languages like Scala, Ruby, Groovy etc. And > people argue that the Java language is not moving forward. A new general purpose language is like a person who just st

[The Java Posse] Future of the Java language discussion

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Wildam
In several podcasts the future of the Java language is discussed. People look at new(er) languages like Scala, Ruby, Groovy etc. And people argue that the Java language is not moving forward. I am in software development about 25 years and learned about 12 languages so far. I developed with RAD t

[The Java Posse] Re: There once was a lang called ...

2009-07-06 Thread Mark Derricutt
The was once a language called clojure That made a coder named Mark go purr [1] Such that he disturbed a coworker Which thankfully didn't end with a harassment order [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/talios/2725171052/ -- Discouragement is a dissatisfaction with the past, a distaste for the prese

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Properties

2009-07-06 Thread Martin Wildam
Coming back to the original post: On 1 Jul., 20:07, MassH wrote: > First, it's clearly absurd to fill source code with boilerplate getter/ > setter code. Even if IDEs can auto-generate, it still has to be > manually read/maintained. Agree to that - I never understood why in C++ IDEs there is so

[The Java Posse] Re: Some statistics about the usage of Internet Explorer 6

2009-07-06 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
As more and more websites give third-rate support to IE6 users (easy to do now, given the vast amount of highly unfun effort you need to pour into it, usually seriously impinging on your web stack's maintainability and flexibility to do it), there's an actual reason for the office junkies being to