Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tabs and spaces - I don't get it

2013-01-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html “An eternal holy war.” -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Keeping Track of Multiple Passwords

2012-12-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.comwrote: I should specify; limiting the damage means, among other things, not to allow one compromised account to escalate by i.e. using unique passwords

Re: [The Java Posse] Keeping Track of Multiple Passwords

2012-12-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
I use 1password https://agilebits.com/onepassword and dropboxhttps://www.dropbox.com/. It costs money, but it's been absolutely worthwhile for me. 1Password is available for Android, iOS, Mac and Windows, and once you've put your password storage in dropbox, it's shared automatically. -Dom On

Re: [The Java Posse] Hiding Twitter feeds in Facebook

2012-02-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
When you're viewing a particular circle (not the default “everything” stream), there's a little slider above the posts that allows you to specify more or less of that particular circle. -Dom On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Viktor Nordling viktor.nordl...@gmail.comwrote: On a related note,

Re: [The Java Posse] java.sun.com Down...again

2011-07-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:10 PM, grlsmile rlsm...@gmail.com wrote: How is everyone handling DTDs references that point to http://java.sun.com ? I know the obvious is to host them somewhere on one of your own sites or local to app. Just wanted to get a consensus of what others are doing.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: random crap section / fart sounds

2011-05-23 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Jesper de Jong jes...@gmail.com wrote: +1, I agree with Tor, the fart sounds are annoying. +0 “Meh.” Please find another, less annoying sound for the random crap section. I vote for a yodelling badger. On a slightly more serious note, how does this

Re: [The Java Posse] Javascript assistance for java project

2011-04-11 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Alexey Zinger inline_f...@yahoo.comwrote: Hear hear. I happen to be involved on a project like this and ended up knee deep on the front end of things in JS hell. I don't remember the last time I wrote a line of Java code on this job. Makes me sad and

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Your Experience of Alternative JVM languages in Organisations, Divisions and Teams

2011-03-30 Thread Dominic Mitchell
2011/3/30 Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com Which number, Groovy 1.0 was released on January 2, 2007.? I am delighted at how effective this conversation is at showing us how uninformative version numbers are. :) -Dom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [The Java Posse] Playbook is a more dev friendly than Xoom

2011-03-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Chris Koerner chessm...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/24/rim-opens-up-blackberry-playbook-to-support-android-apps/ You can write apps in Android, Java, C/C++, QNX, Adobe Air, HTML5. Seems like the Playbook is the ideal tablet for a developer

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Playbook is a more dev friendly than Xoom

2011-03-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:22 PM, phil swenson phil.swen...@gmail.comwrote: The BB solution seems like a hack to me. Hey! Running windows apps worked really well for OS/2. -Dom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to

Re: [The Java Posse] Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
2011/3/2 Cédric Beust ♔ ced...@beust.com On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.comwrote: *asynchronous/messaging architectures:* This is painful to learn in any language without lambdas/function objects. If you need to do this in Java then the SAM types will bite

Re: [The Java Posse] My month-long search for a web framework - results

2011-02-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Lenny P lpri...@hope.nyc.ny.us wrote: GWT was a nightmare to set up and integrate, but once that was done (3 grueling days), it was easy to use and add components. The designer integration is spotty, but doable (via UiBinder) and there is GUI builder tool

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Developers are voting with their feet in 2011 (destination Android).

2011-01-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Alexey Zinger inline_f...@yahoo.comwrote: Last week I was taking NYC subway and saw a maintenance worker tinkering with a metrocard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrocard machine. It was open and going through some kind of rebooting-looking operation. This

[The Java Posse] More Holiday Special Comments

2011-01-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Just a couple of notes having listened… 1. I loved the Unix history lesson. :) There's an excellent graphic showing the history of Unix: http://www.levenez.com/unix/ (aside: if you ever visit the Google NY offices, they have a printed version near the entrance) 2. Angry Birds

Re: [The Java Posse] Web Based Diagramming tool mentioned several episodes ago?

2011-01-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell
I don't think it was mentioned, but I love: http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ Dom On Thursday, January 6, 2011, Peter peterrec...@gmail.com wrote: I vaguely recall the posse talking about, or at least mentioning, some nifty online diagramming tool.  I could not find anything in the recent

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Book recommendations for building contemporary web front end?

2011-01-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell
It's generally up to you. Some frameworks may force the decision upon you, but really it's part of your app's design that you are responsible for. http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/ Dominic On Jan 7, 2011 6:59 AM, Parag adapti...@gmail.com wrote: -- You received this message because you

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Book recommendations for building contemporary web front end?

2011-01-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Parag adapti...@gmail.com wrote: That was a very interesting read, especially since I am also trying to research the pros and cons of using a Javascript MVC framework with RESTfull webservices at the backend. Sorry for the slightly naive question, but can

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle's strategy for Java on the iPad

2010-12-15 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Graham Allan grundlefl...@googlemail.comwrote: I've found that using JSLint, choosing a set of rules that works for you, and actually sticking to them, really helps for scaling JavaScript in terms of team and application size. Thanks for allowing me to plug

Re: [The Java Posse] Stand alone REST servers

2010-11-19 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:25 AM, jahid jsho...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, I was wondering what are the popular stand alone REST servers. By stand alone REST servers I mean, only REST server implementation that I can attach on my desktop application. I do not want a container, because my

Re: [The Java Posse] Notes for Mark Reinhold's Keynote presentation at Devoxx 2010 about the future of java. [With pics!]

2010-11-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.comwrote: Mark *just* finished talking, so, hot off the presses, my notes from his keynote presentation at Devoxx 2010: Thanks for the detailed report! # Mark Reinhold at Devoxx '10. Start off with a review of java

Re: [The Java Posse] Hudson and web app continuous integration

2010-11-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Alexey Zinger inline_f...@yahoo.comwrote: We're looking at Hudson for a continuous integration solution to run a test suite against our Tomcat-hosted web app. As I learn about Hudson, it seems like a nice enough package, but it seems like it lacks any way of

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Next Android version, 2.3 or 3.0?

2010-11-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, yet they do signal impact/importance of a release as per the usual major.minor... mechanism (even if Sun and Oracle didn't get that memo). That's your interpretation, and not necessarily what the PMs that

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Next Android version, 2.3 or 3.0?

2010-11-08 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Romain Guy (Android) romain...@android.comwrote: As long there is no official announcement anything you read about the version numbers is pure speculation. Very often we don't even know ourselves what the version number will be until late in the dev cycle.

Re: [The Java Posse] Evolution from web to desktop?

2010-11-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.comwrote: The elephant in the room, with regards to moving application onto the web is: What do you do when your train goes through a tunnel? Snooze. I always find tunnels most relaxing. You're on a train. It can't be

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Evolution from web to desktop?

2010-11-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Carl Jokl carl.j...@gmail.com wrote: Doing things the current way still leaves you forced to use JavaScript. How many people here develop with JavaScript because they really like and enjoy using JavaScript? I certainly do. The popularity of tools like

Re: [The Java Posse] Android Unit testing

2010-11-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:53 AM, jazam aja...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm an android newbie so please be gentle with me:) I've been trying to right test code for my app. I've read and re-read the android documentation a number of times. I can't work out how to test service or content

Re: [The Java Posse] Are Traditional Server-Side Web Frameworks Dead?

2010-10-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.comwrote: I agree! I prefer implementing services that return JSON and creating HTML views of that data using jQuery in the browser. I recommend running JSLint on all your JavaScript code. It has saved me a lot of debugging

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: .... Leaves Oracle

2010-09-29 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Carl Jokl carl.j...@gmail.com wrote: Bother, the link I posted was supposed to be to the Keep Calm and Carry On poster but it looks like it is broken. I always preferred: “when in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!” -Dom -- You received

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is Oracle becoming a patent troll?

2010-09-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Miroslav Pokorny miroslav.poko...@gmail.com wrote: Does this also mean that The Java Posse need to change their name ? because Tor left and its got Java in it. Sadly, wittertainment http://twitter.com/wittertainment is gone. -Dom -- You received this

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne 2010 Keynotes somewhere ?

2010-09-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Good question, Dick tweeted best JavaOne keynote ever but that seems to contradict with most other people, so that could simply be because Scala was mentioned somewhere lol I think that had more to do with the large

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Blog Post: Java is deliberately not programmer-orientated

2010-09-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Miroslav Pokorny miroslav.poko...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that people focus too much on the language and forget about the libraries and what not. True. But is this the Java Posse, or the JDK Posse? :) -Dom -- You received this message because you

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Full Time Telecommuting

2010-09-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Andrew am2...@gmail.com wrote: Just to add to my earlier email. In terms of career development working from home may not always be the best move. Particularly if you have small children. They make your manager's interruptions seem infrequent. :) -Dom --

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Forcing a core dump of a JVM to test -XX:OnError

2010-08-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 10:27 PM, zheismann zac.heism...@gmail.com wrote: It was also pointed out to me that, at least on Solaris, /bin/kill - ILL %p, will produce cause a core dump and allow the OnError handler to run while /bin/kill -9 %p doesn't. Solaris also provides the gcore command

Re: [The Java Posse] HTML 5????

2010-08-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/11/2010 04:16 AM, Kirk wrote: apparently this is implemented in HTML 5. http://muro.deviantart.com/ If so, it might not matter that the iPad doesn't support flash. And make everyone write code like this (a random

Re: [The Java Posse] Book recommendation

2010-08-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Rakesh rakesh.mailgro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, off on my holidays soon and wanted to fill up the eBook reader. Any suggestions? Preferably something that wont require a computer next to me. I hear there's a book on Lisp thats supposed to be good for

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Post your strangest loop and win (up to) 4 free passes to Strange Loop!

2010-08-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Alex alexdmil...@yahoo.com wrote: The deadline for the contest will be Aug. 31st! Give us your loops! Sadly, I can't take credit for it, but I noticed this gem fly through my feed reader this morning.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Rumours of Java's demise have been greatly exaggerated.

2010-07-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Carl Jokl carl.j...@gmail.com wrote: I still use Subversion and haven't made the transition to GIT yet. Am I a bad person? No, you just haven't seen the light yet. :) If you want to start playing with git, just getting used to it via the git svn command is a

Re: [The Java Posse] Delay on AVD

2010-07-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, jahid jsho...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying out Android. It takes a huge amount of time to run an Android application on AVD (through IDE, I tried both IDEA and Eclipse). I was wondering, if its same for you guys, or I am missing something. If its same for you

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tab / Spaces anyone?

2010-07-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Viktor Klang viktor.kl...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.comwrote: I'm surprised that all the replies to this thread are in favor of tabs over spaces. In my experience, the vast majority of developers

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tab / Spaces anyone?

2010-06-30 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Kevin Wright kev.lee.wri...@gmail.comwrote: The two biggest problems? Typing the chars (though autocomplete helps) and finding fonts that actually have the chars :) It's incredible how a font can be lacking in a *whitespace character*. -Dom -- You

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Tab / Spaces anyone?

2010-06-29 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Robert Casto casto.rob...@gmail.comwrote: Seriously, why do we have to use ASCII text files anyway? You're right. Why do we have to use ASCII? This is the 21st century — we can use UTF-8! Now, instead of space vs tab, you can debate: space vs tab vs en space

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Episode #312 - NetBeans 6.9

2010-06-29 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Tor Norbye tor.nor...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I don't use Maven so I can't really comment on this other than to say I'm sorry it sounds like it's not fixed yet. I suspect the Maven support itself may be initiating a lot of scanning or refresh operations,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Best Blogging Tool for Providing Coding Examples

2010-05-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Christian Catchpole christ...@catchpole.net wrote: The Google Code Wiki does a nice job... http://code.google.com/p/kumi/wiki/samples That's implemented by another google code project: http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ -Dom -- You received

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Objective C

2010-04-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Karsten Silz karsten.s...@gmail.comwrote: No: iPhone OS is built on Mac OS X which is based on the old NextStep which used Objective-C. This allows for easy skill transfer (Mac - iPhone), less OS maintenance cost and common tool chain. Microsoft, for

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: SWT Bashing. can we give it a rest

2010-04-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Wildam Martin mwil...@gmail.com wrote: The default theme of Netbeans is usually the OS-like one. I think that's the point, really. OS-*like*. It doesn't *quite* look the same as would be expected from a native app. It's surprisingly tricky to do this in

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Quick poll: how do you feel about JSP?

2010-04-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Jack jackg...@gmail.com wrote: 2-3 5. You can't secure JSP sensibly. It defaults to making XSS holes for you, which for a web technology is just frickin' wrong. -Dom -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Feedback needed for an ongoing open source project: Cambridge Template Engine

2010-01-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Erdinc Yilmazel erdincyilma...@gmail.comwrote: Hi everybody, I've been working on a new template engine that may be used in web application development as an alternative to Freemarker, JSP etc. It is still in active development and I desperately need feedback

[The Java Posse] Re: Feedback needed for an ongoing open source project: Cambridge Template Engine

2010-01-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Erdinc Yilmazel erdincyilma...@gmail.comwrote: The one thing that jumped out at me (from the docs — I haven't had a chance to play yet) is how you handle escaping. Or don't, I'm not sure. You do state that “Cambridge is designed especially for generating HTML,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Enough time for JSR 310 with the Java 7 delay?

2009-12-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Kerry Sainsbury ke...@fidelma.com wrote: I've always wondered: Has anybody ever put up their hand and admitted that they were responsible for the decision to make months zero-based in Date and Calendar? Just a hunch, but I'd reckon that it's probably derived

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: TSS Article: Hard times for JavaFX ?

2009-12-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkm...@gmail.comwrote: Ah ... I can see that. One thing I recommend is making jslint part of an automated deployment process. I set up mine so that every time I deploy my web app it looks for JavaScript source files that have been

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: RESTful vs SOAP Web Services

2009-11-22 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Kfir Shay kfir.s...@gmail.com wrote: one don't need a framework for doing REST, just use the Servlet api and implement each HTTP verb It's true that you don't *need* it. But you'll waste a lot more time reimplementing wheels. What about etag support, for

[The Java Posse] Re: Google hopes to remake programming with Go

2009-11-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Moandji Ezana mwa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Robert Casto casto.rob...@gmail.comwrote: See what you get when you let engineers design logos! From the article at the beginning of the thread: Gordon, the Go gopher mascot, drawn by

[The Java Posse] Re: The Top 3 Java based web frameworks

2009-09-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
2009/9/28 Alex Turner arm...@gmail.com Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this only an issue if you treat jsp like php? If you are using a framework like stripes, you can sanitize the input in the controller either with an interceptor or by putting sanitization logic in the set method in the

[The Java Posse] Re: The Top 3 Java based web frameworks

2009-09-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Alex Turner arm...@gmail.com wrote: JSP may not be the slickest templating system, but it's easy and gets the job done. The problem I always found with JSP was that there was no way to get it to escape HTML by default (unless I tell it otherwise). This means

[The Java Posse] Re: maven: multiple calls to a plugin

2009-08-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:51 AM, carljmosca carljmo...@gmail.com wrote: I believe the problem I was having is a result of my lack of understanding of maven. While I am still no expect, I believe the best way to expose multiple classes as web services in a single project with maven is to use

[The Java Posse] Re: maven: multiple calls to a plugin

2009-08-23 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:50 AM, carljmosca carljmo...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you for the reply. The maven verison on this particular computer is 2.0.9. 2.2.1 is out — you may wish to upgrade, just to see if it changes anything. You don't have to commit to it, just download, extract and

[The Java Posse] Old JRockit downloads

2009-08-21 Thread Dominic Mitchell
I've had a bug reported by somebody using an older version of JRockit. I was wondering if anybody knows where you can download them from? I can't see any references on the JRockit download page… http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jrockit/index.html Given that I had to use

[The Java Posse] Re: JRuby team moving to Engine Yard - why (not) it is better.

2009-08-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:19:26AM +0200, kirk wrote: They appear not to be interested in an integration story with Java. Actually, I just think that they've been focussed on being as compatible as possible to start with. IIRC, Charles Nutter said that they would be trying to revisit Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Roundup 2010?

2009-08-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:29:49PM -0700, Michael Neale wrote: Hey that sounds pretty nice - but isn't down hill mountain biking really just rolling down hill? (does sound fun and relaxing though). Until the large rock in front of you comes along, yes. :-) -Dom

[The Java Posse] Re: JDBCTemplete question

2009-08-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 31 Jul 2009, at 15:14, Arulin of ACBL wrote: } catch (SQLException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } I hate Eclipse sometimes. -Dom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[The Java Posse] Re: JDBCTemplete question

2009-08-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 1 Aug 2009, at 08:00, Dominic Mitchell wrote: On 31 Jul 2009, at 15:14, Arulin of ACBL wrote: } catch (SQLException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } I hate Eclipse sometimes. Sorry, rather

[The Java Posse] Re: Project Lombok: No more java boilerplate!

2009-08-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 1 Aug 2009, at 09:44, Jess Holle wrote: I still really don't get the fascination with removing stuff. It's all about reading. Generally, the less code there is to read the easier it is to understand what's going on. Can't see the wood for the trees syndrome. -Dom

[The Java Posse] Re: c# Better Language Than Java?

2009-07-31 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:23:56AM -0700, John wrote: http://brizzled.clapper.org/id/93 I've been working in c# for about 1.5 years after being a hardcode Java developer since ~1997. I must admit that c# does have a lot of excellent language features that I wish Java had. Mr. Clapper does

[The Java Posse] Re: c# Better Language Than Java?

2009-07-31 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Alexander Egger wrote: Also because of one thing: This is the third MS shop I am working for. And this is the third time I see MS almost killing the company because they suddenly decide to change a technology in an incompatible way which leads to a

[The Java Posse] Re: Dick's view on Microsoft Recent Episode FUD Clarification Request

2009-07-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:28:03PM -0700, Dick Wall wrote: Incidentally - a useless piece of trivia, Margaret Thatcher is credited with inventing soft serve ice cream (the whirly whippy kind) when she worked as a chemist before becoming Prime Minister of the UK.

[The Java Posse] Re: Maven Without Pain was painful just to listen to

2009-07-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 25 Jul 2009, at 08:41, Evan wrote: Listened with interest to the Maven Without Pain podcast, and it did nothing to dissuade me that Maven is an exercise in putting lipstick on a pig. I'll stick with Ant (and, where practical, Ivy) for now. Despite all the pain that was being described, I

[The Java Posse] Re: Heap and Stack memory

2009-07-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 06:40:07PM +0200, Viktor Klang wrote: Hello Victor! What a splendid name you have! The great thing about the Internet is the ability for one to do what is called a web search on a search engine. One of the better of these search engines is one by the rather funny

[The Java Posse] Re: Online project hosting?

2009-07-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 04:13:54AM -0700, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: I'm looking around for online project hosting, and frankly, I'm not really finding the perfect solution. NB: JIRA gets a double negative because it's utterly useless for Joe Schmoe who would like to file a bug. You get a

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

2009-07-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:37:12AM -0700, Martin Wildam wrote: In the interview with Cay Horstmann (if I remember right) there was mentioned a problem of the students dealing with public static void. Hey, this can't really be a problem - don't get a programmer if this already makes you

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

2009-07-09 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 8 Jul 2009, at 18:35, Alexey Zinger wrote: If you get too far down that road (script evaluation), you might wanna consider JavaCC. If you do, I can recommend the JavaCC book. It was invaluable when I came across some JavaCC code I had to maintain.

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

2009-07-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Joe Data wrote: - 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. It doesn't suck per-se, but it does use a lot of CPU to display video. I think

[The Java Posse] Re: Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) Released

2009-06-25 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 02:45:54PM -0700, vogella wrote: Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) has been released. News and Noteworthy: Eclipse 3.5 – New and Noteworthy in the Platform, Equinox, JDT and PDE: http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.5-200906111540/eclipse-news.html I've

[The Java Posse] Re: Ayes Nays

2009-06-08 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:51:51AM -0700, Christian Catchpole wrote: it works for the british parliament, and as we have witnessed recently, they have impeccable accountability. :) Bloody parliament have done a huge disservice to the country. Voter turnout is now at an all time low, leading

[The Java Posse] Re: closing streams correctly

2009-06-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 05:25:34AM -0700, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: Dominic: That is -extremely- bad and buggy code. NEVER use that, ever. Tell that to the Cocoon guys... That's where I encountered it. The problem is this: If the try block does NOT throw an exception, but the close

[The Java Posse] Re: closing streams correctly

2009-06-03 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 3 Jun 2009, at 03:55, Christian Catchpole wrote: Yeah, this can be a problem. Perhaps the neatest way is to do something like this.. use a static helper which eats the exception. OutputStream os = new BlahOutputStream(); try { // do stuff hyar, hyar and hyar.. os.write( stuff );

[The Java Posse] Re: Google app engine + Groovy or Scala for XML document to HTML conversion?

2009-06-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:30:22PM +1000, Alan Kent wrote: I recall on the podcast Scala Lift having some issues due to the lack of thread support in the app engine. As I recall, Lift itself works fine, it's just the comet support that doesn't. Is Groovy therefore the right way to go?

[The Java Posse] Re: Spray on usability - an oldie but a goodie

2009-05-27 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 27 May 2009, at 03:26, Mark Hibberd wrote: I have to say I disagree with it, mainly the phrase intuitive well-designed user interface. The idea that a human interacting with a piece of plastic and silicon can be intuitive is crazy. A long while back, I heard the phrase the only intuituve

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala and modularization via the 'with' keyword - not a suitable modularization method.

2009-05-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 03:31:27AM -0700, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: *) Is anyone else bothered by the fact that 'requires external library' is such an annoyance? Generally, no. Maven makes it very easy to manage dependencies. -Dom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala and modularization via the 'with' keyword - not a suitable modularization method.

2009-05-20 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 07:47:16AM -0700, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: But now you are dependent on a rather high impact tool that has been (rightfully) bashed for dictating far too much design for you. Yup. Works great for me. :-) -Dom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[The Java Posse] Re: Java as API language, its days numbered?

2009-05-08 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:02:02PM -0500, Stephen Haberman wrote: I went through a phase of wanting a concise/magical syntax, but realized the same thing: in most hands, the code will end up looking more like Perl than Java. That's not a bad thing. Take English. You probably read it fairly

[The Java Posse] Re: Java as API language, its days numbered?

2009-05-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:48:12PM -0400, Josh Suereth wrote: Here's similar java (but using a different path)... ListString urls = new ArrayListString(); NodeList links = webpageDom.getElementsByTagName(a); for(int i =0; i links.getLength(); i++) { Node link = links.item(i);

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - great idea, bad implementation

2009-05-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 01:21:34PM -0700, Joshua Marinacci wrote: The core of JavaFX is very portable and has always run on Linux and Solaris. This is to be expected since it's built on the Java platform. What is not as portable are things which touch the native layer like video

[The Java Posse] Re: How do you know what Jar provides what?

2009-05-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:03:01PM -0700, Dick Wall wrote: We have a story in the upcoming podcast about JBoss Tattletale - http://www.jboss.org/tattletale - sounds like it might help, and it's from JBoss as well :-). Oooh, thanks for mentioning that. I've just tried it and it's dead handy

[The Java Posse] Re: Java as API language, its days numbered?

2009-05-06 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 6 May 2009, at 02:40, Paul King wrote: Guillaume Laforge's DSL talk shows this rather nicely. Language is Groovy, context is writing DSLs but you will get the idea. Slides 12-17: http://www.slideshare.net/glaforge/practical-groovy-domainspecific-languages-springone-europe-2009 I saw a

[The Java Posse] Re: Maven dependencies in a graph

2009-05-05 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 02:20:32AM -0700, jvb wrote: I once wrote a maven plugin which represents the dependencies as a UML diagram, exported to a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ XML_Metadata_InterchangeXMI/a. XMI was nice for me because I could then analyze the dependencies in UML tools

[The Java Posse] Re: Regular Expression question

2009-04-24 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:50:06AM -0400, Robert Fischer wrote: I think what you're looking for is: ([\\w+])+\\? Take the final ? off if you want to mandate the trailing backslash. Also, you're not matching dots in the server name. You need something like: ^[\\w.]+(w+)*\\?$

[The Java Posse] Re: Oracle to buy Sun MS

2009-04-22 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:22:24PM -0400, Marcelo Morales wrote: Prediction 9: Oracle promises JavaFX but will not deliver. The lack of a killer JavaFX IDE will be ultimately the doom of the free world. Surely it'll be transition to PL/SQLFX? -Dom

[The Java Posse] Re: Code definition

2009-04-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:24:30PM +1000, Peter Becker wrote: Very good point. I notice this difference a lot in commit messages: quite often they are written in a way that is entirely redundant with the diff you get. That might make sense for large commits (kind of like an executive

[The Java Posse] Re: Code definition

2009-04-14 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 06:07:54AM -0700, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: The staunch refusal of most VCSes to not allow you to entire an empty commit is actually a mistake, I think. For example, git commit will abort the commit if you leave the message blank. For sufficiently small commits, the

[The Java Posse] Re: Suggestions with XML parsing

2009-04-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 04:49:30PM -0500, Stephen Haberman wrote: key2 ... /key2 The part that bugs me is the use of the key# tags in the XML. Yeah, that's ugly. I wished the developer would have used key id=1 or key seq=1 or something.

[The Java Posse] Re: Code definition

2009-04-10 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:20:32AM -0400, Robert Hanson wrote: Every Perl program I have ever written falls into that category. Six months later I can't even figure out how it works. Believe me, Perl isn't unique in that category. There's a *lot* of really incomprehensible Java out there.

[The Java Posse] Re: Add a programming quiz to the job advertisement?

2009-04-03 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:17:48PM +0200, Viktor Klang wrote: And then, code is just one thing, the other is a business mind. For me, the correct answer to: Could you write a method that sorts an int array? is: What's the business value? Basically, developer time is limited, so be sure

[The Java Posse] Re: Add a programming quiz to the job advertisement?

2009-04-02 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:25:15PM -0700, Tim Büthe wrote: At our company, we are looking for good Java programmers, that the one and only requirement and that's written in our job advertisement. Since we need more people to handle all the work that's coming up, within this and the next year,

[The Java Posse] Re: @NotOverridable == final?

2009-03-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:18:44AM -0700, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: I came away from the podcast thinking that Project Coin was rejecting all change proposals on the grounds that they were either, a) too big, or b) too small; and that the two ranges appeared to overlap. Reminded me somewhat of

[The Java Posse] Re: Project Coin - small interface changes as well maybe?

2009-03-04 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 4 Mar 2009, at 18:46, Joshua Marinacci wrote: what does String.join do? Joins strings together using a separator. Just like every other language in the last 20 years. :) The google collections guys have a nice implementation, which accepts Objects as well as Strings and makes nice use

[The Java Posse] Re: An open letter to women Java Posse listeners (and their coworkers) ...

2009-02-19 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 19 Feb 2009, at 11:09, Peter Becker wrote: I'd be very happy for my daughter to pick up some scientific or IT- type work, but so far I haven't been too successful. Maybe it is because she's not even 3 yet :-) But she got her first computer around her second birthday -- not a Barbie one

[The Java Posse] Re: 'final' mandatory on parameters?

2009-02-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:12, Christian Catchpole wrote: Does anyone know of a tool to run over legacy code that refactors all members / fields / params to final if they not reassigned? I'd even be happy with a blanket reassignment and then manually go and fix the code which breaks. Eclipse has

[The Java Posse] Re: An open letter to women Java Posse listeners (and their coworkers) ...

2009-02-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 17 Feb 2009, at 06:35, Frederic Simon wrote: 3) Looking at her, and from my experience, good Java female developer have a tendency to lack social skills: http://tinyurl.com/8yg8wv Joke aside, Whilst I appreciate it's a joke, I don't think it travels terribly well in email. This is a

[The Java Posse] Re: IntelliJ plugin for Fan

2009-02-16 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On 16 Feb 2009, at 14:46, phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote: Eclipse fan? I've never heard of that. Most Eclipse users just use it because it's free and perceived as the standard I'm an eclipse fan. Despite it's many flaws, it's still far and away the easiest thing I've used to code Java in.

[The Java Posse] Ho Ho Ho

2009-01-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Joel is quite accurate. :) http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/01/12.html -Dom --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email to

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