[The Java Posse] House rental seeking house mates JPR 2014

2014-01-31 Thread Peter Pilgrim
Hey All Are you going to the JavaPosse Round-Up 2014? Are you seeking a house to share? I started the process fairly late this year due to other issues. I am looking for two other potential housemates to share house. Let me know asap Thanks -- You received this message because you are sub

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Attending Java Posse Roundup when coming from Europe

2012-10-21 Thread Peter Pilgrim
Hi Hopefully it will be starting around much earlier than this year. Say February, because I heard there was no snow on the ground. On Saturday, 6 October 2012 12:29:37 UTC+1, Romain PELISSE wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks Carl for the all those infos! Do you have already an idea on the > date of the

[The Java Posse] Re: London, possibly city living in general.

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Pilgrim
Should've been London one-day Travelcard of 5 or 6 zones that will work across Buses, Tube (the underground) and Overground trains. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.googl

[The Java Posse] Re: London, possibly city living in general.

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Pilgrim
Hi I am just catching up w/ JavaPosse thread. Sorry I have been on a California tour of JavaOne, Silicon Valley Code Camp and Silicon Valley JavaFX User Group talks and then seriously myself looking at business opportunities. Hi-fiving me is not the plans at the mo ... I live in the suburbs. I

[The Java Posse] Invitation for Open Source Project

2011-07-26 Thread Peter Penzov
Hi, I'm starting a open source project which involves web based Java, JBoss application server and JBoss Seam 3. I'm a student and I work on the project in my free time for training. Every one who want to take a part in this hobby project in his free time is invited. Send me e- ma

[The Java Posse] Re: [ANN][JPR Spin Off] The Collective Summer Camp UK

2011-07-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Jul 1, 3:35 pm, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > > Apparently, I am doing it for just one Saturday in London, England. > > Is that how long summer is these days in the UK? Seriously, though, come on down. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse"

[The Java Posse] Re: [ANN][JPR Spin Off] The Collective Summer Camp UK

2011-07-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Jul 1, 3:35 pm, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > > Apparently, I am doing it for just one Saturday in London, England. > > Is that how long summer is these days in the UK? It is example of my limiting belief. Seriously, the habit of many Brits, and northern European is fly to Spain (Costa del Sol),

[The Java Posse] [ANN][JPR Spin Off] The Collective Summer Camp UK

2011-07-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
? https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_GB&formkey=dDFRbXBMNklFWHRZUGtsbDZSZnFjTFE6MQ#gid=0 Do you want to come along on Saturday? See above ++++ Peter Pilgrim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" gro

[The Java Posse] Re: JPR11 Closing Session Video Available E343.5

2011-06-06 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
*DONE* On Jun 6, 2:45 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > Any chance you can make it downloadable too? :P > > On 6 June 2011 14:42, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > > > Ok! Go! > > > On Jun 6, 2:35 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > > > No we can't, it's marked private

[The Java Posse] Re: JPR11 Closing Session Video Available E343.5

2011-06-06 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Ok! Go! On Jun 6, 2:35 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > No we can't, it's marked private > > On 6 June 2011 14:32, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > > > Hi All > > > For all JPR11 attendees. Here is the video of the closing session > > event that I recorded. I e

[The Java Posse] Re: JPR11 Closing Session Video Available E343.5

2011-06-06 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Oops! Just a sec On Jun 6, 2:35 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > No we can't, it's marked private > > On 6 June 2011 14:32, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Hi All > > > For all JPR11 attendees. Here is the video of the cl

[The Java Posse] JPR11 Closing Session Video Available E343.5

2011-06-06 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hi All For all JPR11 attendees. Here is the video of the closing session event that I recorded. I edited the footage, annotated the names, and uploaded earlier. So you can see it now http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/?p=365 or here http://vimeo.com/20802566 See you now -- You received this messa

[The Java Posse] 2525 song - not just from Cleopatra 2525.

2011-05-11 Thread Peter
When I heard Dick singing the 2525 song in the most recent episode, I thought sure he was wrong in attributing it to a folk song. To me, it was the theme song to a cheesy Sci Fi show called "Cleopatra 2525". Imagine my surprise when I looked it up on wikipedia and found it was a real song, and was

[The Java Posse] Re: Possible Architectures of a Spring Framework Large Amount Memory 6GB+

2011-05-09 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
umber telephoneNumber). > > More verbose? Yes. But enough about me. Yes it was verbose. Add in the complexity of JMX configuration and actually the client wanted the configuration to be stored in a relational database, and the ability to reconnect after failure. > > On 8 May 2011 16:47, P

[The Java Posse] Re: Possible Architectures of a Spring Framework Large Amount Memory 6GB+

2011-05-08 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On May 8, 5:49 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > On 8 May 2011 05:34, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > > > Hello All > > > This is a very generic set of questions on Java EE or not, as the case > > may be, (some people name it as so-called SERVER CORE JAVA oxymoron- > &g

[The Java Posse] Re: Possible Architectures of a Spring Framework Large Amount Memory 6GB+

2011-05-08 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hi I will just say 6GB should have been 96GB of RAM on a (dedicated?) server. There was talk about wanting to potentially scale 5.0e06 whatsits per day to 100e06 to ensure capacity. Beyond that my lips are sealed. On May 8, 5:49 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > On 8 May 2011 05:34, Peter A Pilg

[The Java Posse] Possible Architectures of a Spring Framework Large Amount Memory 6GB+

2011-05-08 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hello All This is a very generic set of questions on Java EE or not, as the case may be, (some people name it as so-called SERVER CORE JAVA oxymoron- like marketing) and the Spring Framework What are the possible architecture(s) of a spring framework application which uses a large amount of memor

[The Java Posse] Video Recordings of Episode 342 JPR11

2011-05-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hello All Here is two video recordings of the Java Posse Round-Up 2011 podcast, episode 342, in to two parts. This JavaPosse and all of us who attending the Round-Up this year, Thursday night, 24th February in the parish church. http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/?p=350 Enjoy ;-) http://www.vimeo.

[The Java Posse] Re: Netbeans 7.0 beta 2 Scala plugin?

2011-04-21 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hi It is not as a good as IntelliJ IDEA 10.2 Community Edition with the auto completion. Control+Space gets you only so far. It works as advertised. You can navigate to the scala library runtime. So far so good with NB 7.0 FCS On Mar 10, 12:36 pm, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > none at all ? :-) > > On

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

2011-04-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
still developing a lot more Clojure code in comparison to Java? And thanks for this response and evidence, I think that this very credible marker on the Beyond Java on the JVM universe. > On Mar 29, 5:27 am, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > > > Hey All > > > Which companies / organi

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

2011-04-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Mar 30, 10:09 pm, Josh Berry wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Oscar Hsieh wrote: > > Just out of my own curiosity, a quick check on wikipedia > > > > As for comparing it to scala, I really don't care which came first.  I > think everyone agrees that the Java ecosystem was rather clo

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

2011-04-01 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Mar 30, 4:56 pm, Joe Sondow wrote: > On Mar 30, 2:02 am, mP wrote: > > > At most Grails & Griffon by their very nature are only available to Groovy > > users which again means they are qutie small compared to the rest. > > I didn't realize you were asking if there are libraries written in no

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

2011-03-31 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hi Josh Thanks for doing the detective work on what will be probably another web presentation. When both you and D.J are in London, I will be buying you both pints of beers. On Mar 30, 9:58 pm, Oscar Hsieh wrote: > Just out of my own curiosity, a quick check on wikipedia > > Groovy - "James Str

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
anguages happen but Java is still king and used for > almost everything here. > Juan this was great stuff! Loved it. > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Peter A Pilgrim > wrote: > > > > > Maybe it would help if those guys (and gals) from those countries > > actually c

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Mar 29, 2:25 pm, matthewjfarw...@gmail.com wrote: > Le 29 mars 2011 13:47, Peter A Pilgrim a écrit : > > > I may as well pack up my showel and toolbox and go back down the mine. > > There are no mines in the UK any more. Yes Matthew that is probably correct. The tin co

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Mar 29, 1:54 pm, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I work at a financial company (a forex dealer) in Toronto. My team is > currently starting to use Groovy in the periphery of what we do: things like > log analysis and other tools for in-house use. We plan to replace

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Mar 29, 1:54 pm, Jonathan Fuerth wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I work at a financial company (a forex dealer) in Toronto. My team is > currently starting to use Groovy in the periphery of what we do: things like > log analysis and other tools for in-house use. We plan to replace

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
wrote: > On 29 Mar 2011 12:47, "Peter A Pilgrim" wrote: > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
See intermixed On Mar 29, 12:36 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > On 29 March 2011 12:20, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > > > On Mar 29, 11:37 am, Martijn Verburg wrote: > > > Hey Peter, > > > > Well since you're form London as well I assume you've caught the ne

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
using Groovy of complexity in the past? Ta > > Cheers, Paul. > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Peter A Pilgrim > wrote: > > > Hey All > > > Which companies / organisation are using alternative JVM languages? > > What is the ratio of the alternative JVM la

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On Mar 29, 11:37 am, Martijn Verburg wrote: > Hey Peter, > > Well since you're form London as well I assume you've caught the news > of the Guardian moving some of its backend to Scala? Yes I know about the Guardian. I went to their presentation in January. The situat

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

2011-03-29 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hey All Which companies / organisation are using alternative JVM languages? What is the ratio of the alternative JVM languages to pure Java programming languages in such organisations? Perhaps organisation is too broad grain, what about teams, I would be interested in that too. I am trying to fin

[The Java Posse] Books on Technical Management and Leadership

2011-01-21 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
acquaintance. "To be a good Scrummaster, you need to learn coaching skills and to learn SCRUM is really rather simple, because the principles are easy to understand. Some suggested books: Flawless Consulting by Peter Block Becoming a Technical Leader by Gerald M Weinberg " -- You received th

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

2011-01-06 Thread Peter
It doesn't seem like a landslide to me. If you combine iThings you get 28% vs android's 29%. The percentages add up to 100, which implies the survey may have forced you to choose only one option, and is therefore silly in my view. Despite Steve's crusade against cross platform apps, I suspect ma

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

2011-01-06 Thread Peter
I vaguely recall the posse talking about, or at least mentioning, some nifty online diagramming tool. I could not find anything in the recent show notes though, and I wonder if I am remembering a much older episode than I think. Anybody remember better than me? In lieu of that, if you have a fav

[The Java Posse] Re: Xmas Present Speculation

2010-12-18 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Decided against the Tufte book it is too controversial. It is best to go look one of the books in real life and flick through them I said. On Dec 16, 8:38 pm, Kevin Wright wrote: > On 16 Dec 2010 20:21, "Peter A Pilgrim" wrote: > > > > > If there was only one Edwar

[The Java Posse] Xmas Present Speculation

2010-12-16 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
If there was only one Edward Tufte book to buy for Xmas, which book would it be? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ja

[The Java Posse] Can't wait for the discussion on this one... Apple bans magazine with articles about android from app store.

2010-11-29 Thread Peter
Apple says magazines related to android not welcome in app store. I'm sure Steve has a reason why this is better for users... http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/26/apple-bans-android-magazine-app/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" gr

[The Java Posse] Re: Name Value Parameter Pattern Plugin for IDE

2010-10-13 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
you can see I would have the IDE plugin. On 12 Oct, 16:22, Peter A Pilgrim wrote: > Hi Everyone > > May be even Tor can help. > > Has anyone come across a name value pattern plugin for NetBeans or > Eclipse IDE? > Given a class like this: > > class Node { >  

[The Java Posse] Name Value Parameter Pattern Plugin for IDE

2010-10-12 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hi Everyone May be even Tor can help. Has anyone come across a name value pattern plugin for NetBeans or Eclipse IDE? Given a class like this: class Node { private float x; private float y; private float z; } The plugin generates the accessors and builder chain mutators class No

[The Java Posse] Re: Dick's Crystal Ball: Oracle sues Google over Android. Facepalm!

2010-08-13 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
On 13 Aug, 03:29, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > I really, _REALLY_ didn't imagine this was actually going to happen, > but the concern raised a few javaposses back has come true. > > My immediate gut reaction to this news: WTF is Ellison doing? I know > oracle likes the whole "screw the long term

Re: [The Java Posse] Android and ESRI

2010-07-24 Thread Peter Becker
not have thought of anything SQL as fun, but when you can create new shapes by doing unions over SQL GROUP BY groupings you suddenly can whack out exactly the shapes you need in less than 5 minutes. The matching picture is only a few clicks away in GeoServer. I hope that helps a bit. Peter O

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is functional programming "abstract nonsense"?

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Becker
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html On 16/07/10 00:09, Nick wrote: I was thinking about this on the drive to work a few months ago. OO does mimic the way we view the world in its focus on objects or nouns. Think about how you would describe a scene to so

Re: [The Java Posse] Distributing Java program on Ubuntu 10

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Becker
h the OS updates. But that is a bit more involved. Peter On 15/07/10 21:47, rhythmchicago wrote: Hi, I'm looking for tips on how people have done this in the past. I finally got my company to sign off on shipping our system with Ubuntu and not Windows. While I use Ubuntu a lot, my p

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
7;d say we should just agree to disagree. Peter On 14/07/10 23:11, jitesh dundas wrote: I dont think so..It is actually our way of implementing hibernate..Are you sure that the performance based issues and the tuning parameters are being handled properly.. BTW, how many softwares do you know t

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
Rails, and Grails in particular. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
No, it doesn't. And it also supports JPA annotations, so you don't need any XML at all. Peter On 14/07/10 22:44, Kevin Wright wrote: hang on... does hibernate continue to read XML files after it's loaded? If so, then that would *definitely be a bottleneck! On 14 July 201

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
l hit those fast. I consider object-relational mapping a stupid idea, but unfortunately one that's hard to avoid in current enterprise development. Thus my cynicism. Peter On 14/07/10 22:40, jitesh dundas wrote: Precisely what I was about to say in a few minutes..Peter, you read my m

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
On 14/07/10 21:22, Moandji Ezana wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Peter Becker <http://peter.becker.de>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote: On 14/07/10 19:16, Moandji Ezana wrote: The thing I find most useful about Hibernate is that when you have a l

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
get rather complicated. Has anyone used LINQ? Does that make working with SQL nice enough to do away with an ORM? I still haven't tried LINQ -- I must admit that I treated Windows solely as a gaming platform for the last two years. I might learn some .NET on my new job. Peter -

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

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Becker
e decided the database has to be a commodity while at the same time the vendors did everything to avoid exactly that. The result is that RDBMS can be a pain, but that is no justification to claim relational algebra as a failure. I somehow hope the revival of the functional paradigm will move things

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

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Becker
On 13/07/10 22:41, jitesh dundas wrote: Have you heard of Hibernate/Spring for hiding DB related issues.. It hides them so well that it usually takes at least 10 times longer to fix them. It does so by layering a coat of its own issues over the DB. Peter (who tends to get cynical when

Re: [The Java Posse] Where in the world is the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child?) - and what about Android?

2010-07-13 Thread Peter Becker
fects and problems they face are quite different from what you might expect. Some things I remember are kids running through the curriculum too fast, parents borrowing the computer too much and the need for legislative changes to adjust how curriculae are handled. Peter On 13/07/10

Re: [The Java Posse] Geek time

2010-07-08 Thread Peter Becker
ivate email and feed reading happens on train and bus, plus some bits of coding and database work. My old netbook even copes decently running PostGIS + Geoserver :-) Kudos to the Ubuntu team -- with Windows XP it hardly coped with Adobe Reader (we are talking first gen Dell Mini 9 here).

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans code completion for logging

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Becker
At some level in the code IOException and SqlException are part of the domain model. They should just not be allowed to bubble up. Peter On 27/06/10 18:19, Kevin Wright wrote: There's a school of thought stating that checked exceptions are okay for domain-level concepts, but no

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Less IPhone

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Becker
t that there is an expectation coming from the current name of the podcast. Maybe they should pick a nice non-Unicode character and call themselves "the group formerly known as the JavaPosse" ;-) Just kidding. Peter On 24/06/10 06:41, Dianne Marsh wrote: Wow. I'm pret

[The Java Posse] Re: Project build with NetBeans or RAD

2010-06-23 Thread Peter Becker
ular IDE, so that means "ant" or "maven". I'm a bit old school, so I also like the command line. One frustration I had with maven (years ago, when I last looked at it) was perfectly illustrated by Peter Becker with his "mvn $GOAL" example. It was never obvio

[The Java Posse] Re: Project build with NetBeans or RAD

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Becker
ding an Ant build takes way longer. Peter On 22/06/10 21:21, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/22/10 12:46 , Wildam Martin wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:38, Peter Becker wrote: Maven might feel too complex or too limiting when you

Re: Project build with NetBeans or RAD (was: Re: [The Java Posse] Netbeans 6.9 Launched)

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Becker
for standalone tools or "tomcat:deploy" if we deploy to Tomcat Maven might feel too complex or too limiting when you come from Ant, but once you see the tool support it is more than worth it. Peter On 22/06/10 17:39, Wildam Martin wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:48, Fabr

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Not only Java

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Becker
On 18/06/10 01:22, Marcelo Fukushima wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Peter Becker <http://peter.becker.de>@gmail.com <http://gmail.com>> wrote: For me the big problem with Solaris (Open or not) is the lack of decent package management. Not only is the tool

[The Java Posse] JAVAWUG Time for Something Now

2010-06-17 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
Hi Dick Very best of luck with your brand new adventure with the Scala training with Bill Venners. It sound very exciting to working on Scala as a trainer. Recently, I trained under Martin Odersky with his Workshop in London. A no brainer! In case you missed my announcement, I am leaving the worl

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Not only Java

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Becker
stuff I need is just an "sudo apt-get install XYZ" away (with tab expansion on the package name ;-) ). Just my 2c, Peter On 17/06/10 00:16, Carl Jokl wrote: My private Web Server used to run Solaris 10. I have used OpenSolaris and know that Solaris is a powerful platform. Howe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Code generation becoming mainstream?

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Becker
t both problems were (a) not all that bad and (b) only affected a very small fraction of our overall work. I would definitely do this approach again. One day I might write it up -- I actually started a draft for a couple of blog entries, but never got around to fix them up. Regards,

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Less IPhone

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Becker
the iPhone, it also came with plans that included data. While I don't see the same extreme change happening in the market (since video telephony doesn't seem as useful), I could see Apple causing a bit of a shift in the market again. Peter On 16/06/10 04:00, Robert Casto wrote: S

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: OS-X - the abandoned platform?

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Becker
On 12/06/10 09:37, Christian Catchpole wrote: On Jun 11, 9:30 pm, Peter Becker wrote: Did I mention that I have a very strong dislike of that startup sound from the not-BIOS? :-) That's because it's a tritone, also known as "The Devils Interval" http://en.wikipe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: OS-X - the abandoned platform?

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Becker
#x27;d say the new Ubuntu looks way too much like MacOS), but sometimes they imitate quite well. KDE used to be the better Windows for a long time, now they have their own character. Peter On 11/06/10 19:08, Kevin Wright wrote: The problem with developing on windows is that servers are typ

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JCP.ORG down ?

2010-06-03 Thread Peter Becker
your network is disconnected from the world life gets much harder, though. And of course there is always the chance that people believed in the "nearly fixed" a bit too much. After all setting up an alternative page takes resources from fixing the real problem. Peter -- Yo

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Good gosh J7 lambdas/closures are looking worse by the day

2010-06-01 Thread Peter Becker
ingle expression is a bit high on parentheses overload for my taste. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send emai

Re: [The Java Posse] A Brain For your PC

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Becker
Oops, yes I did. Talking about ignorance... -- although I guess it's more general incompetence in this case :-) Peter On 25/05/10 09:38, Kevin Wright wrote: You mean segue, right? Though a thinking segway would be pretty cool! Especially if I could build one using Lego Minds

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The brutal truth

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Becker
I think with Apple it is all about the ability to design good user interfaces. Maybe more accurately: the perception thereof. If someone would manage to create the next great app that works across platforms, then that will weaken their position. Peter On 25/05/10 09:27, Kevin Wright

Re: [The Java Posse] A Brain For your PC

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Becker
s not whether machines think, but whether men do." (B.F. Skinner, via Civ4). Having dealt with semantic web technologies quite a bit I tell you it is mostly dreaming. If you want to deal with Java errors, grab PMD and Findbugs. Peter On 25/05/10 09:07, jitesh dundas wrote: Dear All, W

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The brutal truth

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Becker
Yes, Kevin. This is the walled garden thread, don't post anything that hasn't been cleared with the management. And never ever consider changing the subject line, otherwise you get into trouble with the Google overlords. Peter On 25/05/10 01:17, Rakesh wrote: I think you pos

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Android Market now with a bit of more information for developers

2010-05-21 Thread Peter Becker
ey just think there is no business case in following up with their customers. KDE/Netbeans coders really seem to appreciate the feedback and try to connect. No idea where Apple sits on that scale, but somehow I can't see them being too open about what's happening in the dev teams.

Re: [The Java Posse] For JC (and nostalgic posse fans)

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Becker
don't really know. Peter On 21/05/10 04:24, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: The evolution of PC audio as told by Secret of Monkey Island. Presumably the inspiration of the new Scalawags posse tune. Thought you guys would like it :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a324ykKV-7Y -- You rec

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is HTML 5 here sooner than we think?

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Becker
has created scenarios in which it is truly very hard for these organizations to upgrade the browser. That is largely a fault of bad practices at exactly those places that talk a lot about best practices :-) Peter On 21/05/10 04:26, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: People who are capable of updatin

[The Java Posse] [REMINDER][ANN] JAVAWUG PRO JAM 3 :: Impala Framework :: 26 May 2010 :: SkillsMatter, London

2010-05-20 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
order to attend http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/phil-zoio-javawug-projam-3-impala-framework/zx-548 The venue has graciously been organised by Skills Matter eXchange team. We all appreciate this generous gift. (http://skillsmatter.com) Peter Pilgrim, Founder and Organiser

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is HTML 5 here sooner than we think?

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Becker
, which will make it easier for the technically inclined to push their friends over to some other browser. It doesn't even have to be Firefox, the main change is that the (Internet Browser == IE) equation has been broken in people's heads. Peter On 20/05/10 17:51, Moandji Ezana w

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is HTML 5 here sooner than we think?

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Becker
possibly reduce functionality and performance. Unfortunately the people we deal with at the client usually don't have any influence over core IT decisions like that, which means the only thing they can do is pass the message on. Which all produces a very negative mood, but it seems the best we can

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is HTML 5 here sooner than we think?

2010-05-19 Thread Peter Becker
since removing IE is too hard and installing a second browser means supporting two browsers where one should be enough. MS played the game of cornering the browser market well, and while they are losing on some fronts, IE will stay with us for much, much longer. Peter -- You receive

Re: [The Java Posse]

2010-05-17 Thread Peter Becker
I believe he was actually a very fond Mac user in his days, but I also think he would question Apple's current direction strongly. Peter On 17/05/10 23:21, Rakesh wrote: "42" - the gift that keeps on giving. I'm sure if Douglas was with us today he would have somethin

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: H.264 explainers

2010-05-17 Thread Peter Becker
ize for a statistic. I personally think most people who want to save money on software licenses use pirated copies of Windows. I use Linux for the better product and better service. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse"

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: H.264 explainers

2010-05-15 Thread Peter Becker
the moment that means for me that even if I would like Apple products, I would not buy them, no matter what they cost. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@go

[The Java Posse] [ANN] JAVAWUG PRO JAM 3 :: Impala Framework :: 26 May 2010 :: SkillsMatter, London

2010-05-14 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
6-120 Goswell Road London, EC1V 7DP United Kingdom The venue has graciously been organised by Skills Matter eXchange team. We all appreciate this generous gift. (http://skillsmatter.com) Peter Pilgrim, Founder and Organiser Java Web User Group (JAVAWUG)

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Stupid Error Messages

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Becker
ust told me that username or password must be wrong. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+uns

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Flash demonstration on Android. Websites work, videos play, games run nicely. And Jobs said it couldn't be done.

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Becker
browsers. Not that I consider Flash a good thing, but that view you present doesn't seem to match reality too well. But maybe that was intended :-) Peter On 13/05/10 04:07, CKoerner wrote: "full web" is the support of HTML/CSS standards as was laid out when the we

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Friends of Linux?

2010-05-09 Thread Peter Becker
e I can think of: an Exchange replacement that is less pain than Exchange itself. Or alternatively: a decent groupware client that supports Exchange seamlessly. AFAIK neither exists. Peter If you want a server, it's a totally different story, you can setup LAMP stack in no time, where as

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Becker
ates in the Java world. If you want FP-free Java you have to take "Strategy" out of your pattern box, and also remove ActionListener and any similar interfaces. The people who ask for closures mostly want a nicer solution to exactly this class of problems. Peter -- You receive

Re: [The Java Posse] Friends of Linux?

2010-05-08 Thread Peter Becker
the whole Linux idea ridiculous not long ago. Most still decide against it (the MS Office lock in being a common reason), but at least the idea is taking serious. And I have converted some, none of which ever looked back. Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Objective C

2010-04-28 Thread Peter Becker
issues will be the ones that expect everything to be 100% like Windows. I don't have an opinion on Windows 7 yet, I had only brief encounters so far. End rant. Sorry. Peter On 28/04/10 09:09, opinali wrote: On 27 abr, 09:45, Christian Edward Gruber wrote: Hahahahahahahaha

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The 'Thoroughly Modern' Development Environment From Hell

2010-04-26 Thread Peter Becker
nd it integrates the ticket and wiki updates into the same stream. And you can browse the source code with all the version history right in place. Even if you don't use the wiki or ticket system, I find installing trac a worthwhile thing to do. Peter On 27/04/10 03:19, Artie Peshimam w

Re: [The Java Posse] Joe and my free market comments

2010-04-25 Thread Peter Becker
went wrong when the liberal parties around the world forgot about this distinction and turned capitalistic instead. Peter On 26/04/10 07:42, Frederic Simon wrote: Seeing the latest discussion on patent law and the feedback on the latest podcast, I wanted to share an experience I had with Joe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The 'Thoroughly Modern' Development Environment From Hell

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Becker
some admin can be used. I don't think most business folks want to know about merging and WebDAV won't let them do it properly anyway. I guess you could tell them to use the old school naming patterns if in doubt, but that means at least the conflict needs to be detected first. Pe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The 'Thoroughly Modern' Development Environment From Hell

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Becker
entirely lost due to concurrent updates and resulting overwrites. But if you aim at a non-dev crowd I'd seriously look for alternatives. Peter On 24/04/10 23:43, Edward Gabriel Moraru wrote: Be aware that the business people sometimes edit the same document, and SVN/TortoiseSVN doesn&#

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The 'Thoroughly Modern' Development Environment From Hell

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Becker
On 24/04/10 21:30, Eric Jablow wrote: On Apr 23, 7:46 pm, Peter Becker wrote: But let's think more practical. Number one I would sell is the move from CVS to SVN. CVS is just too scary due to it's lack of atomic commits. The consistent revision number across the repository is an

Re: [The Java Posse] The 'Thoroughly Modern' Development Environment From Hell

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Becker
environment is much less conservative: we are developing products for scientist at a university, some colleagues are pretty conservative, but since we have lots of independent small projects things can move at varying speeds. Peter On 23/04/10 22:43, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: My current

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: question about analog audio to digital conversion

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Becker
ering. Color range might be more interesting -- although I guess that depends on the type of show. Actually: the pitch range could help, too. I think you'd probably still anchor it on the time the logo appears, but then use some heuristic for going backwards. Peter On 23/04/10 06:50, Ke

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: question about analog audio to digital conversion

2010-04-22 Thread Peter Becker
sense to do your own encodings, although I suspect that older CDs might be a good starting point. Peter On 22/04/10 23:49, Kevin Wright wrote: The OP wasn't comparing vinyl to CD, he was comparing vinyl to whatever compressed format iTunes served up (presumably AAC or MP3) These are bot

[The Java Posse] [REMINDER][ANN] JAVAWUG BOF 56 :: JAVAWUG BOF 56 Open Railo and Actor Distributed Computing :: 27 April 2010 :: SkillsMatter, London

2010-04-21 Thread Peter A Pilgrim
= The Skills Matter eXchange 116-120 Goswell Road London, EC1V 7DP United Kingdom The venue has graciously been organised by Skills Matter eXchange team. We all appreciate this generous gift. (http://skillsmatter.com) Peter Pilgrim, Founder and Organiser Java Web

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Zero-based vs. one-based indexing

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Becker
f a famous person might not be a good idea at all. There are arguments for one-based indexing (matches externally expected behaviour, matches expectation of the un-trained) and a lot of the arguments for general superiority of zero-based seem either weak or specific to a particular view. If zero

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Zero-based vs. one-based indexing

2010-04-17 Thread Peter Becker
Reinier, you very conveniently pick pieces. Let me show you inline... On 17/04/10 13:16, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: replies inline. On Apr 17, 2:15 am, Peter Becker wrote: Traditionally zero is not a natural number. Who cares about natural numbers? You wrote: RULE 1: Counting

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