Re: [The Java Posse] Task Managers

2011-10-05 Thread Tim
On android take a look at astrid. It syncs to Google tasks... On Oct 5, 2011 6:04 AM, "Vince O'Sullivan" wrote: > I've got half a mind to write my own task manager because I haven't > yet found anything that does quite what I want. However, my > requirements include maximum task portability with e

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: A better experience on Ubuntu

2011-10-04 Thread Tim
Has anyone tried out the Ubuntu monospace font? I haven't gotten around to it myself (may not be a great programmer's font) but it should render nice on ubuntu. On Oct 4, 2011 8:49 AM, "Fabrizio Giudici" wrote: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:40:34 +0200, Rakesh > wrote: > >> so I can change the L&F of

[The Java Posse] Re: What is your favorite programming font?

2011-05-26 Thread Tim
When I first read that article I tried a few of them and settled on Droid Sans Mono. I've been very happy with that. -- Tim On May 25, 6:45 am, Chris Koerner wrote: > Just readhttp://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/and I was > curious what the Posse fans like to use

[The Java Posse] Re: What is your favorite programming font?

2011-05-26 Thread Tim
files with long lines and have the IDE wrap them intelligently when it displays them. As far as I can tell Eclipse doesn't do that. Do any others? -- Tim On May 26, 3:07 am, Casper Bang wrote: > I just find that monospace fonts cater better to "pattern recognition" > when

Re: [The Java Posse] What's that javascript book the posse is always recommending?

2011-03-27 Thread Tim
JavaScript the good parts On Mar 27, 2011 11:10 PM, "Brian Leathem" wrote: > Well always is probably to strong a word, but on more than one > occasion I've heard the posse members mention a particular javascript > book. Something along the lines of "the definitive guide" or "the > good parts", or

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Correction: Now evidence shows Google DID NOT steal Oracle's code.

2011-01-23 Thread Tim
Groklaw's very insightful input on this. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110122054409107 -- 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

Re: [The Java Posse] Correction: Now evidence shows Google DID NOT steal Oracle's code.

2011-01-21 Thread Tim
Wow! Quite a different tale. Thanks for the post. On Jan 21, 2011 4:47 PM, "Reinier Zwitserloot" 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

[The Java Posse] Re: Patent cold war coming to an end, take 4: Microsoft v. Motorola

2010-10-02 Thread Tim
No, Microsoft is based in that district. From the court's website: "This court serves the area west of the Cascade Mountains and from Oregon to the Canadian border." That would include Redmond, so it's the logical place for them to file. On Oct 2, 1:48 am, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > ... > Mic

[The Java Posse] Re: Netbeans UML plugin status ?

2009-12-11 Thread Tim Davenport
Unfortunatly SOA, UML and Visual Web plugins are unfunded and will not be released going forward, The conspiracy theorist in me knows that the free SUN, SOA especially, solution were as good or better than the Oracle offerings which cost 100's of thousands of dollars to license in production. The t

[The Java Posse] Re: Closures, too much or too little?

2009-11-19 Thread Tim
Did Reinhold present something different from http://www.javac.info/closures-v06a.html ? That appears to be a new (simplified) version of BGGA written by Neal Gafter. It also refers to a separate spec for "control invocation syntax". Has anyone seen that? -- Tim On Nov 19, 2:16 a

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

2009-09-10 Thread Tim
More importantly, they add regularity. The only semantic difference between: if (expr) doThing1(); and: if (expr) { doThing1(); doThing2(); } is an extra statement. So why should the syntactic difference be greater than that? -- Tim On Sep 10, 5:32 am, Ben

[The Java Posse] Re: closing streams correctly

2009-06-04 Thread Tim
On Jun 4, 5:25 am, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Dominic: That is -extremely- bad and buggy code. NEVER use that, ever. > > The problem is this: > > If the try block does NOT throw an exception, but the close method > DOES, then you should not swallow that exception like closeDontThrow() > suppose

[The Java Posse] Re: closing streams correctly

2009-06-04 Thread Tim
efinitely not  for > > > an OutputStream. If there is buffering going on, flush will get called > > > via the close method, triggering an exception and your data would not > > > have been written. With your example you would never find that out. > > > > You only wan

[The Java Posse] closing streams correctly

2009-06-02 Thread Tim
In Joshua Bloch's Automatic Resource Management proposal (http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddv8ts74_3fs7483dp) for project Coin he wrote: Even the "correct" idioms for manual resource management are deficient: if an exception is thrown in the try block, and another when closing the resou

[The Java Posse] Enough with the whip noises

2009-05-12 Thread Tim G
Please, for the love of God. No more whip sounds on the podcast. I get the joke, but the sound is excruciating. Besides that I enjoyed #249. Thanks! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse

[The Java Posse] Re: Why don't people use Java 6 in production? Maybe this is why...

2009-05-12 Thread Tim
I'd say a more likely reason a lot of companies have not shifted to haven't shifted to Java 6 on the server is that ~35% of the app server market belongs to IBM Websphere, the latest version of which only supports Java 1.5. Most large Enterprises just can't go to 6. On May 10, 8:54 pm, Mark Derr

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

2009-04-06 Thread Tim Büthe
On 6 Apr., 11:57, Viktor Klang wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Tim Büthe wrote: > > On 6 Apr., 09:43, Viktor Klang wrote: > > > > That one gave me the chills... > > > Am I weird to want to understand stuff _before_ I use them? > > > jep, yo

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

2009-04-06 Thread Tim Büthe
On 6 Apr., 09:43, Viktor Klang wrote: > > That one gave me the chills... > Am I weird to want to understand stuff _before_ I use them? jep, you totally crazy. You have to do it like this: Read one or two random chapters of a book on programming, no matter what language it is. Everybody knows, t

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

2009-04-03 Thread Tim Büthe
On 4 Apr., 02:23, Robert Hanson wrote: > So yeah, in general I recommend testing.  It separates the "I am Java > certified" practitioners from the geniuses. Yes, a test is definitely needed. I saw Java certified whatevers who don't understood call be reference versus call by value or didn't kne

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

2009-04-02 Thread Tim Büthe
ing, does stuff like this. Check out http://www.fogcreek.com/ to see what I mean. BTW: Is it desired to post job advertisements here in the group? regards, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Th

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

2009-03-31 Thread Tim Büthe
ogramming quiz to the job advertisement?** Why / Why not? I already posted this question on stackoverflow.com, right here: http://tinyurl.com/dlsexz regards, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

[The Java Posse] Re: Heads up! 232 coming, but so is tempo posse!

2009-03-15 Thread Tim Keith
I agree. Although after listening for a while it seems like they've all had too much coffee. Kudos to Reinier and Steven. On Mar 15, 12:22 pm, Justin wrote: > I have listened to a couple of the sped up podcasts and am loving > them. This is the only way for me to listen now. > > Thanks, Justi

[The Java Posse] Re: a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-29 Thread Tim Büthe
emailing (right now). Therefor, I left the E-Mail app deactivated, as I can see in the dashboard. But users see an E-Mail link on there google apps startpage and can use it to send mails (but not receive, because our DNS records does not point to google) Tim On 26 Jan., 22:28, Tim Büthe wrote: >

[The Java Posse] Re: Video calling? Not in a millions years.

2009-01-29 Thread Tim Büthe
but it was a pain in the ass. Nowadays, I do it without thinking about it. Tim On 28 Jan., 22:27, Casper Bang wrote: > The hearing impaired are very pleased to now be able to make phone > calls among themselves, so I wouldn't call it a solution looking for a > problem. And I suspect

[The Java Posse] Re: a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-26 Thread Tim Büthe
you can use SSL for gmail and gcal.  If you use the "better GCal" > firefox extension it will force SSL.   huh? You don't need no extension for that. Theres a checkbox in the options that says "always use htts" or something like this However, I think you

[The Java Posse] Re: a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-26 Thread Tim Büthe
found two more similar services: zoho.com and zimbra.com. Some opinions on those two? Thanks, Tim PS: the topic should be "webapp" not "wabapp", sorry... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[The Java Posse] Re: WidgetFX and transparency on Ubuntu

2009-01-22 Thread Tim Büthe
On 21 Jan., 18:42, Bill Robertson wrote: > Its not supported because its not done yet, but they did not want to > delay the launch > > http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/entry/a_word_on_linux_and That's interesting, thanks a lot! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[The Java Posse] Re: WidgetFX and transparency on Ubuntu

2009-01-21 Thread Tim Büthe
ou get no 6u10 for it, you out of luck regarding shaped windows and transparency. Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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@

[The Java Posse] Re: a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-21 Thread Tim Büthe
I'm looking for. Is someone of you using this? Is it possible to just use the calendar without E-Mail and address book and stuff? thanks, Tim On 21 Jan., 11:12, jpf wrote: > You can try the free Sun Java Communications Suite. > > http://www.sun.com/software/communications_suite/get.js

[The Java Posse] Re: WidgetFX and transparency on Ubuntu

2009-01-21 Thread Tim Büthe
s a big Linux supporter. (Same goes for Google's Chrome, but that's another story...) That said, I'll take another look at JavaFX and WidgetFX in some weeks or month or when I read some news about Linux and Mac OS support. Till then, the

[The Java Posse] Re: a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-21 Thread Tim Büthe
the google grid, you know? Right now we using http://www.planscalendar.com/, but this one sucks. I'll try http://www.bedework.org/bedework/ that's looks promising, but I couldn't found an demo. I'll get back when I tried i loc

[The Java Posse] Re: WidgetFX and transparency on Ubuntu

2009-01-21 Thread Tim Büthe
transparency is really not supported I can stop searching and just wait... Tim On 20 Jan., 21:38, Casper Bang wrote: > It's an early access, not beta, which can explain the AWT issue. You > can get it here:https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html > > /Casper > > On Jan 20, 8:

[The Java Posse] Re: WidgetFX and transparency on Ubuntu

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Büthe
ing is messed up and how to choose version number. In my opinion, the only way to do it, is like Ubuntu does, timely. So the marketing guys and developers have nothing to argue about. Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[The Java Posse] a good calendar wabapp to install in-house?

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Büthe
od alternatives (mediawiki, moinmoin, jira, bugzilla), but not for the calendar. regards, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to java

[The Java Posse] WidgetFX and transparency on Ubuntu

2009-01-20 Thread Tim Büthe
tizen, we are lost... Hopefully somebody can provide some background informations on this. regards, Tim --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send ema

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 64bit plugin - b02 available

2008-12-11 Thread Tim
Awesome news. Just tried it out on Ubuntu 8.10 and it seems to work great! On Dec 11, 2:49 am, sherod wrote: > Not sure if this has been mentioned elsewhere. > > But an Early access build of update 12 with 64bit plugin is available, > details here: > > http://blogs.sun.com/vita/entry/java_se_6_

[The Java Posse] iTunes issue with episode 207

2008-09-25 Thread Tim Davenport
Episode 207 will not download from iTunes... getting the following error ...An unknown error occurred (-39) Please check the URL is correct and the connectin to the network is active and try again. Episodes 205 and 206 downloaded fine --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You re