Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

I thought the Paul allen suit was dismissed, then re-filed within the deadline. I believe that the suit is still alive and well. I did a quick internet search, and I didn't see anything that updates the status since Paul Allen refiled the suit on December 29th, 2010 (the last day given to refi

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Episode 341

of > > the day's activities. > > > > This year, we had some themes that seemed to continue through the > > week's afternoon code rodeos; so what do the attendees think of > > planning some time on Friday morning for wrap-ups/summaries of the > > code rodeos

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Episode 341

At the roundup, you can also post a note indicating that you are wanting to learn more about it during an afternoon session (which are not recorded). Quite often, you'll get several people together with their laptops, a big screen, and then figure it out together. The recorded sessions are a great

Re: [The Java Posse] Day 0 Hackathon Location and Time

Try this site here : https://sites.google.com/site/javaposseroundup/monday-dojos If you don't have access, it might be that Bruce or someone else needs to let you in. This is what Dick has indicated on this: "OK - After chatting with Bruce, we are going to confirm meeting at the Cafe in Blue Mo

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Nokia goes Windows Mobile

Nokia has already admitted that they rejected the option of using android. http://www.mobilebusinessbriefing.com/article/nokia-admits-it-rejected-android On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Casper Bang wrote: > > As someone I can't recall offhand said: "Two turkeys don't make an > eagle". > > Tha

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: LOL! Tor is so Corporate

There isn't anything that prevents an app developer from releasing an iphone, ipad and ipod version in the same release. We have several apps on our machines that works on my iphone and my wife's ipad. Other apps have never released an updated version of their app for the ipad, and my wife just r

Re: [The Java Posse] Apple patents App Stores

Interesting -- Apple applied for this Trademark back in 2008 (7/17/2008). The US Patent office opened up opposition remarks on 1-05-2010. Why is MicroSoft just now remarking on this? In looking at the history of the trademark http://tarr.uspto.gov/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77%2F525433&action=Req

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: I'm glad I don't have to Fly right now

You're also assuming that the "terrorists" would use the same tactic. You're playing Whack-a-mole game at that point. If you only stop what has been known to work, then you will never adapt. Look at Israel -- they publicly denounced the machines as entirely too expensive and ineffectual. You know

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: I'm glad I don't have to Fly right now

Bruce Schneier (a famous security expert if you don't know who he is) wrote a blog post that has a large amount of links, quotes and articles on the subject as it stands in the USA. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:04 AM, CKoerner wrote

Re: [The Java Posse] If Android is not Java then why do so many classes have "java" in their name ? TIC

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/renaming-javarebel/ "Unfortunately, we have a little potential hurdle coming our way….. in the form of corporate lawyers ;-) Short story made shorter: We have been asked to remove the word “Java” from “JavaRebel”. You’ve probably heard this story before, so we

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Episode 303 - comments on the lost IPhone

I am not a lawyer, nor an expert on law Search warrants, felonies and the like in the United States are done by the police department, FBI, etc. Any criminal charges are done by the state of California, or the United States government. While it is fun to speculate that Apple purposely lost the p

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Roundup Google Group

The email should have come from either Dick Wall or Bruce Eckel. I believe the group name is JavaPosseRoundup. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Paul Truax wrote: > don't think so... although i get a lot of email...  maybe I missed it.  What > is the name and i can look for it and request access.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Could something like Carbonite solve Joe's backup needs?

motely On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:01 AM, "Vince O'Sullivan" wrote: On Feb 16, 3:16 am, Ryan Waterer wrote: Peter Krogh, which he calls Digital Asset Management Essentially, for a complete and total backup solution, we should follow a 3-2-1 method. 3 different locations (hard

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Could something like Carbonite solve Joe's backup needs?

While there are some fantastic cloud backup proposals mentioned, I think it would be wise to point out that pushing your data into the cloud isn't enough. In order to have a proper backup solution, we should have our data in several locations. Carbonite, Mozy and a few of the other proposals will

Re: [The Java Posse] The cult of Apple secrecy

Correct me if I'm wrong; the reason they pulled zfs was due to patent/ licensing issues that they were not able to resolve. I'll find links later if others do not beat me to it. Sent remotely On Jan 6, 2010, at 7:54 AM, Fabrizio Giudici > wrote: Spencer Uresk wrote: Is there some value

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why is Netbeans > Eclipse?

I have derailed this thread unintentionally. Please accept my apology for doing so. --Ryan On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > On Dec 23, 11:57 pm, Ryan Waterer wrote: >> Earlier you had mentioned that if I take a particular stance, I'd be >> mo

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why is Netbeans > Eclipse?

even > though the very thing you're clinging to is as bad or worse in the > desktop world. Thus, you're literally ranting: You're painting pretty > pictures of better worlds without stopping to think that these utopias > you are painting do not exist anywhere. Faulting on

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why is Netbeans > Eclipse?

27;t understand what this > has to do with the web. If you mean that the entirety of the web was a > bad idea - you can, but know that standing in the way of technological > prowess like an old grandfather yelling at kids to stay off the lawn > has never once worked in the history of m

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Why is Netbeans > Eclipse?

We have definitely gotten off topic! This is something that I've become much more passionate about in the last couple of years, and I appreciate Fabrizio for his viewpoints. We, as a group, tend to enjoy the newest features, the newest toys and worry more about the time to deploy, stability and fu

[The Java Posse] Re: JP 284 comments on finding passports

I'm thinking about adding a timer on it! When the timer reaches zero, it will beep at me, indicating where the passport is at. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Dick Wall wrote: > > Yeah - I had that thought myself afterwards. Attaching any kind of > electronic finder to it would likely have t

[The Java Posse] Re: No commercial motivation to make Java 'better'

I haven't touched this aspect in a month or two, but isn't there an option to indicate whether or not to download the latest version, and also an option to prompt the user to download the latest? --Ryan On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote: > > You can tell if draggable applets

[The Java Posse] Re: JVM garbage collection

If you are on Java 1.6.7+ (I think this is the version that it was released on), then you can use the jvisualvm command. As with any tool, it has its limits. However, you can get a heap dump, which will then show you how many times a particular object is created/destroyed, how it was used, etc.

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX - oddities in the language? Week 2.

While experienced programmers might not worry about the braces on a single line, they become invaluable to any junior programmers. I've trained a few in which they couldn't understand why the following code segment simply stopped working. (Let's not even start a discussion about System.out.printl

[The Java Posse] Re: Roundup 2010?

If you look at Dick's post, you will see that nothing is really set in stone. They are looking to shake things up a little bit more and see if they get better or worse results. He mentions that they could end up alternating a winter/summer conference through the years. In attending the last roun

[The Java Posse] Re: Is ODF in danger ?

I'll link to the Slashdot discussion that happened yesterday. There are a lot of excellent point and I won't attempt at bringing up them all. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/06/2322209/Microsoft-Patents-XML-Word-Processing-Documents Bottom line is that there is quite a few examples of prior

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

>From the Java6 JavaDocs on InputStream http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html close public void *close*() throws IOException Closes this input stream and releases any system resources associated

[The Java Posse] Re: Roundup 2010?

Dick has recently tweeted that he's looking forward to the 2010 Roundup. I would imagine that unless things drastically change that the Roundup will continue to thrive. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Joey Gibson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM, pforhan wrote: > >> >> Training budg

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX on netbeans 6.7.1 !

I completely agree with Bill. It is the easiest way to get what you want and not have to worry about any extras that could potentially cause problems. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Bill Robertson wrote: > > With NB, its best to download the smallest package and add to it > through the plugin

[The Java Posse] Re: A vote of no confidence in Sun's JVM Language implementations commitment?

As Tor indicated, every single employee at Sun is potentially on the chopping block. Whether Oracle's deal continues unobstructed by the department of justice, or Sun continues on its own, nearly everyone is unsure as to where Sun is headed. As Josh indicated, the great thing about Open Source i

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

already invented (TCP/IP, sending messages across country), it needed funding to expand and that is what Al Gore is claiming to have been a part of. --Ryan On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > > Ryan Waterer wrote: > >

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

Wait a minute here! Tor, are you actually saying that the media(newspapers, news stations, the intarwebs) might have actually made something up and reported it false? --Ryan On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Chris wrote: > > Yea, exactly, Al Gore invented the internet. Even Tor agrees. > > >

[The Java Posse] Re: Python's respect and Rubys derision

Bill Venners interviewed the twitter folks to set things straight about Scala, Ruby, RoR, etc. It can be found here: http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/twitter_on_scala.html As Phil indicated, they kept the RoR for the Website, but replaced the Ruby messaging with Scala. --Ryan On Fri, J

[The Java Posse] Re: Online project hosting?

You'd be surprised at what you can do with a Greasemonkey script. I would prefer if JIRA gave much more options of customization in the program. We use JIRA as our internal issue tracking tool and the end users absolutely hate interfacing with it. It is a constant struggle to get the end users t

[The Java Posse] Re: #266 - Linux has amazingly good hardware support

gt; by using iTunes as a tool for getting you to by Apple hardware. :-) > > Mark > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 6:59 AM, Ryan Waterer > wrote: > I have the exact situation with a co-worker. I need to completely > rebuild her machine due to a virus infection. I looked into

[The Java Posse] Re: #266 - Linux has amazingly good hardware support

I have the exact situation with a co-worker. I need to completely rebuild her machine due to a virus infection. I looked into Linux, but unfortunately, had to discard it since this person uses iTunes exclusively. While I could install Wine and have her use iTunes through Wine, I just didn't thi

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

IFrom the overall stats that I've seen from various websites that do publish their visits, IE6 still has a disturbingly large portion. From a technical site such as yours, it is quite surprising that IE6 has such a large percentage among the IE crowd! --Ryan On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:16 AM, vogel

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

A few things: 1. Dick, you guys rock. You do a fantastic job in the interviews, and I enjoy them immensely. Looking at the other thread after the BoF and questions, I would say that most appear to enjoy the interviews and the style. You're very well respected in the community, and this is just

[The Java Posse] Re: more jigsaw vs osgi vs javaposse

Whether the proposal supports groovy or not will indicate Dick's true feelings on the matter! On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote: > > vs the javaposse? the java posse has their own modules proposal? > awesome! will it support groovy? > > On Jun 26, 2009, at 2:24 PM, phil.swe

[The Java Posse] Re: web pagination - #247 - Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering

It's very well done! The best part is that is so seamless and the user doesn't even notice what is going on. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Joe Nuxoll (Java Posse) wrote: > > On June 19th, 2009 - you saw load-shedding technology in full-effect, > where the system is designed to make subtle c

[The Java Posse] Re: Hello

Welcome to the group! I did a search on the group, and here is a thread a couple of months ago that suggested a bunch of good books. Rather than list them all, you can go through and read what people suggested, and why. http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/98ba2721abf0d

[The Java Posse] Re: Package by feature or layer?

Erlend, Netbeans has come a very long way in the last couple of years. Since Tor has been talking about NetBeans, and the other Posse members have commented how fantastic it is, I decided to look into it again back in March. I now develop exclusively using Netbeans at home, and have started the

[The Java Posse] Re: 'Posse BoF 2009 -- the video

A (near Seattle) - and went to school in Santa > Clara, CA. We were lobbying for a bridge over Oregon. :-) > > - Joe > > On Jun 16, 11:54 am, Ryan Waterer wrote: > > Derail > > > > "Plus, I get to work remote 100% of the time from Oregon, so I > > can

[The Java Posse] Re: 'Posse BoF 2009 -- the video

Derail "Plus, I get to work remote 100% of the time from Oregon, so I can't really complain." I didn't know that you were an Oregonian. I have even more respect for you now! I'm stuck out in New Mexico right now, but the wife and I can't wait to get back to the NW. /Derail On Tue, Jun 16, 2009

[The Java Posse] Re: Joe, you should write a book....

I, as well, would love to read a book by Joe (and a few others in here). I believe there was an older thread discussing that same issue, and Joe indicated he'd love to at least write a couple of chapters. I think Joe's love for cars could actually be a big bonus. From my understanding, a lot of

[The Java Posse] Re: The Gimp

I use Gimp a couple of times a month at work. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Dick Wall wrote: > > Hi Josh > > I do use it whenever I need to do some graphics editing - on Linux it > really is the only option since Adobe still doesn't do Linux (outside > of flash anyway). I think perhaps the mo

[The Java Posse] Re: Help deciding on a design blog name

1. I would definitely read such a blog. I enjoy discussions about design and usability. The recent thread in this group was quite interesting and educational. 2. It's too damned late to come up with a name. I'll try harder tomorrow, I promise!However, I checked, and that domain is availab

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaOne keynotes suck

I agree; let the Java Posse run the keynotes (and get paid big bucks too!). On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Robert Casto wrote: > I have never gone, but watching the keynotes online, I have to agree. > > +1 > > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Mario Camou wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 16:5

[The Java Posse] Re: The new G1 garbage collector - only for pay?

ep them. > > The post I originally replied to made the assumption that having a more > up-to-date Java would be a good business strategy for Apple. > > Peter > > > > Ryan Waterer wrote: > > Just because you own a Mac, doesn't mean that you don't care about &g

[The Java Posse] Re: The new G1 garbage collector - only for pay?

Just because you own a Mac, doesn't mean that you don't care about Java. In all the companies that I've worked for, not a single one ever was on the latest, greatest small update of Java. In fact, the company that I work for just started switching to Java 1.5. All but one of the 3rd party vendo

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

hem. :) >> > >> > On May 28, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Michael Neale wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > > OH, also, and when you fix something, there will be the 10 angry >> > > emails from people who don't like it now, who liked it then, or

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

> > On May 29, 11:47 am, Joshua Marinacci wrote: > > > > > It sucks that this thread is going on right now during JavaOne prep. > > > I'd love to join in. I'll just say this really quick: > > > > > Yes, UI design (and visual design in general) is an a

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

The tools help streamline parts of code that can be streamlined. "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." What is intuitive to one person can be cumbersome and clunky to another, or too simple and limiting to someone else. From my understanding, we want to design to a certain demographic, and ha

[The Java Posse] Re: New JavaFX (1.5 or 2.0) version at JavaOne?

I'm sure that this would be a fabulous JavaOne to attend! Best of luck to those presenting! On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Joshua Marinacci wrote: > it's only a little over a week till JavaOne starts. stay tuned! > > On May 22, 2009, at 8:38 AM, Ryan Waterer wrote: >

[The Java Posse] Re: New JavaFX (1.5 or 2.0) version at JavaOne?

There are a lot of indications that you'll most likely see something big at JavaOne. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Adam G. wrote: > > Hi all, > > we are working with JavaFX but sometimes still have bad feelings about > it, when it comes to the poor tool support, poor widget set and other > st

[The Java Posse] Re: ScalaWags deserves its own podcast

I think that the Java Posse strike a very nice balance between the different interests. The Java language and JVM covers a very wide spectrum of topics and interests today. The Posse helps all of us stay informed in these areas. While I'm personally not always interested in these other topics

[The Java Posse] Re: Enough with the whip noises

As long as they avoid Rick Astley! On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Mark Derricutt wrote: > It scares me that my mind just ran through a virtual posse cast with the > news being read out in progression of devo, james brown, marvin gaye, and > ending up with a sultry barry white number... > > "we

[The Java Posse] Re: Enough with the whip noises

Please keep the whipping noises. You guys make me laugh with the way you guys do the whipping noises. It's awesome! Now there is an idea/ challenge. Do an entire podcast/interview by burping!!! Ok, just kidding. That would be quite painful. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Casper Bang

[The Java Posse] Re: ScalaWags

I think that you're onto something here!!! On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Mark Derricutt wrote: > How about pirate chipmunks? > > -- > Discouragement is a dissatisfaction with the past, a distaste for the > present, and a distrust of the future - Maree De Jong, Life NZ. > Website: http://www.

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

Very true statement there. Coming from a full, rich world of IDE support in Java, it's a bit disconcerting to play in Java FX. However, I'm sure that the mighty Tor will have this all fixed for us very soon. After all, he codes in his sleep doesn't he? :) On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Bill

[The Java Posse] Re: Microsoft and Java

I can verify that I experienced the same -- the world must be coming to an end! :) I'm too lazy to get up and boot up the windows machine to see if I get the same experience through windows. On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Bill Robertson wrote: > > > I don't believe that. Microsoft got burned

[The Java Posse] Re: DB2 is nowhere?

I understand why a lot of companies like an all in one solution. It is easy, convenient, and usually makes integration smoother. Like others have mentioned, it usually means better support. However, in my experience, I've seen CTO's, architects and whatnot steer towards the all in one solution

[The Java Posse] Re: "swimming pools, which kill far more kids"

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Christian Catchpole < christ...@catchpole.net> wrote: > > > Ide love to see some stats on eclipse related suicides. > > IntelliJ is the only IDE I know that has actually created life. > > Let's get a comparison of all the IDEs since the dawn of time. I heard from

[The Java Posse] Re: "swimming pools, which kill far more kids"

The next section on the same page indicate ( http://www.cdc.gov/HomeandRecreationalSafety/Water-Safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.htm): - *Children:* In 2005, of all children 1 to 4 years old who died, almost 30% died from drowning.1 Although drowning rates have slowly declined,1, 3 fatal

[The Java Posse] Re: When will JavaFX be ready to replace Swing?

Thanks for the information Josh! I've been really excited about JavaFX and have a small piece integrated into our internal reporting APP here at work. While it was do-able, there were serveral sections that I felt were just "hacks" to get it to work correctly.I'm really looking forward to wha

[The Java Posse] Re: Noro Virus on JavaOne 2008, Swine Flu on JavaOne 2009?

I see the true problem is that when will people believe the media and health officials when we have a true pandemic? At this point in my life (in my 30's), I've heard of too many scares to believe the media or even the health officials at all. I understand they are simply covering their asses (i

[The Java Posse] Re: Where the heck are the posse hats?

Awesome video! Congrats Carl! That looks like a very sweet ride. That's definitely Joe with his in-car video. On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > Because Carl isn't wearing the right hat, and assuming that's Joe, he > isn't wearing any hat! Bah! > > http://www.yout

[The Java Posse] Re: Requirements capture / design software?

I quite enjoy StarUML. Unfortunately, it's no longer maintained. Although, I think there are a group of developers trying to fork a branch since the project owner won't release the code. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:12 AM, Gabriel C. wrote: > > If you can live without the fancy stuff , StarUML is

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans: Maven + JavaFX project?

I've been working with Netbeans and JavaFX recently. It's still very early, so I wouldn't be surprised if the two don't play very nice together.To give you an example of how early -- code completion and code formatting barely work, and only if you're lucky. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:00 AM,

[The Java Posse] Re: Code definition

I agree with you completely. However, as we all know, there are places that have horrible practices and you soon realize that you need to leave the company because no viable change will ever happen. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Viktor Klang wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:56

[The Java Posse] Re: Code definition

In my experience, some developers are more concerned about their quantity of code output. These developers are usually too busy to explain the what, the how or the why anywhere -- not in the javadoc, not in the checkin comments, not in any documentation, and not in comments. As such, these deve

[The Java Posse] Re: Suggestions with XML parsing

I'm ashamed to know that it's related to World of Warcraft. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Wayne Fay wrote: > > > Sorry for the question, but why JAXP? Why not agreeing an XSD with the > > people responsible for the other application and then to use a XML > > Binding tool like JAXB or XMLBeans

[The Java Posse] Re: Java coming to Google App Engine

That's how long it took for myself as well. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:06 AM, pantsula wrote: > > "Thanks for signing up to try Google App Engine for Java! Your > account has now > been activated, so you can begin building applications with our new > Java > runtime." > > Took about 4 hours for me

[The Java Posse] Re: [ep #238] Can you think of a reason to use EJB?

Viktor, Isn't that the truth! I can't believe the murder that some third party "solutions" get away with. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Viktor Klang wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Ryan Waterer wrote: > >> "Do you know why your pre

[The Java Posse] Re: [ep #238] Can you think of a reason to use EJB?

"Do you know why your previous company, or any other for that effect would want to limit open source software?" A company that I've worked at in the past had this belief that if they didn't pay for the product, then it must be crap. In essence, if someone isn't charging you for their product, t

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

ive me > a good reason why. Doing all of that right away in the interview process is > just giving everybody a head start on the relationship. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Ryan Waterer wrote: > >> All, >> >> I think that this is a fantastic discussion.I wante

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

All, I think that this is a fantastic discussion.I wanted to throw in my two cents: I think that if you require applications to submit a sample application before and interview, you will scare away the good developers. In my experience, most good developers in my experience switch jobs throu

[The Java Posse] Re: #235 and #236 links not working

Craig, Are there any links in particular that don't work for you? I've been able to click on several links from the website(http://javaposse.com/) for both episode #235 and #236. --Ryan On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Craig wrote: > > The links for #235 and #236 podcasts are not working, both