[The Java Posse] Re: date recurrence calculator?

2009-02-08 Thread Chris Winters
Another vote for Google RFC-2445: we've been using it in our application for over a year, no problems. It was even fairly easy to extend it to support hourly recurrences required by our domain. Chris On Jan 30, 10:20 am, Robin wrote: > by way of an update for anyone interested we went for this

[The Java Posse] Re: Choosing a Java web framework.

2010-07-15 Thread Chris Winters
On Jul 15, 5:36 am, Carl Jokl wrote: > I hope this discussion does not devolve to the point that I wish I > hadn't asked but I need to look at choosing a web framework to use as > part of a University application being developed over the summer. Depending on how simple it is, you can build a REST

[The Java Posse] Re: Do scientists agonize over syntax as much as we do?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Winters
On Mar 14, 10:08 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > ... > actually seem to impede PHP's meteoric rise much. I'd think few would argue > PHP is a language that really did anything interesting on the language > design front (in fact, it's the nickelback of programming languages!), and > yet its one of

[The Java Posse] Re: On what's effective, efficient, easy and intuitive

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Winters
Dan North gave a presentation at QCon a while ago where he talked about the Dreyfus competency levels, which IMO map pretty well the the concepts you're talking about: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Keeping-Agile-Agile also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_model_of_skill_acquisition bu