[The Java Posse] Re: Show your Java Love...

2011-05-18 Thread Lachlan O'Dea
I think The Posse have made it clear that they consider "Java" to mean the entire platform and ecosystem, including even Android. Given that, isn't discussion of Scala, Groovy, Clojure, et al, also on-topic for this group? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

[The Java Posse] Re: Happy Birthday Dick!

2011-04-18 Thread Lachlan O'Dea
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[The Java Posse] Re: "Java Desktop is Dead, move along."

2010-10-28 Thread Lachlan
" question. The best answer to that probably depends on your customers. Is there sensitive data that customers want to keep under their own control? Are your customers happy to secure and backup their data, or would they rather delegate that to you? Do they want access to the app everywhere?

[The Java Posse] Re: latest podcast and how students should learn...

2010-10-25 Thread Lachlan
On Oct 25, 7:47 am, Ruben Reusser wrote: > It is amazing to me that the universities (at least the one close to our > office) does not force the students to learn all about the web while > learning how to program. Instead of a system.out.println("hello world"); it > might be a better idea to just

[The Java Posse] Re: Apple has just deprecated Java on the Mac!!!

2010-10-22 Thread Lachlan
On Oct 22, 8:57 pm, Carl Jokl wrote: > The sooner Oracle makes some kind of statement the better. Better for us, and better for Oracle. I doubt Apple cares much. I wrote a too-long blog post with my thoughts on what's happening: http://lachlanrambling.blogspot.com/2010/10/java-and-mac.html tl;d