[The Java Posse] Re: JDK7 SNI support breaks code that works under JDK6?

2013-08-14 Thread Weiqi Gao
Or use a private (app specific) JRE and change the global setting there. On Monday, August 5, 2013 4:44:08 PM UTC-5, Paul Brabban wrote: In fact, I don't think I can even do it with exception handling as the connection object has nothing set after the exception is thrown. So it's globally

[The Java Posse] Re: Tips for effectively reading programming books

2012-06-12 Thread Weiqi Gao
to improve your memory. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:31:09 PM UTC-5, Joe Attardi wrote: Hi all, What are some ways you effectively absorb knowledge from reading programming books? For language or feature specific stuff, obviously

Re: [The Java Posse] They've finally done it! JavaFX on Linux

2012-02-11 Thread Weiqi Gao
I have put out more details in a follow-up post: http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2012/02/03/running_32_bit_javafx_2_1_beta_sdk_on_64_bit_ubuntu_11_10.html. -- Weiqi -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To view this discussion on the

[The Java Posse] Re: #369 - The listener's views

2011-11-07 Thread Weiqi Gao
: James Gosling, you can stop listening now. or Done with stuff, on with fluff. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@speakeasy.net http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- 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

Re: [The Java Posse] #362: Thanks for selecting my loop as a winner

2011-09-01 Thread Weiqi Gao
this oddity of the misused letters go the other way, leading Chinese people to mispronounce queen as cheen, for example? On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Weiqi Gao weiq...@gmail.com wrote: Java Posse, Thank you for making me a winner of the strangest loop contest. I should have mentioned

[The Java Posse] #362: Thanks for selecting my loop as a winner

2011-08-31 Thread Weiqi Gao
-Chee. The Chinese 'q' has the 'ch' sound. Off Topic is bliss, (but I'm sure there is a way to morph this into something Scala :) ) -- Weiqi Gao -- 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

Re: [The Java Posse] Running a Java process as a service on multiple platforms

2011-07-06 Thread Weiqi Gao
/restart just like any other services + I don’t have the latest Mac but I assume the experience is comparable to the above. I don’t know the details of how Tomcat did it. But if you can do what they did, I think your users will be happy. -- Weiqi Gao From: Alan Kent Sent: Tuesday, July 05

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: #354: Strangest Loop Competition, 2011 Edition

2011-06-18 Thread Weiqi Gao
/strange-loop-2011 https://thestrangeloop.com/ -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- 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] #354: Strangest Loop Competition, 2011 Edition

2011-06-18 Thread Weiqi Gao
, eat it BIATCH! On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Kirk kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com mailto:kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com wrote: for (;true;) {} shorter and also burns cycles ;-) Kirk On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Weiqi Gao wrote: I just

[The Java Posse] #354: Strangest Loop Competition, 2011 Edition

2011-06-17 Thread Weiqi Gao
(it won't be the strangest for sure) to get the balls rolling. It's a loop in C++: for (int i = 0; i 10; i++) {} It doesn't do anything except to burn cycles, but it is a loop in a language other than Java. ;) -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- You received

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

2011-05-21 Thread Weiqi Gao
beyond _my_ comfort zone) Michael Easter +1 -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- 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

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Bob Lee declines to support Java standardisation charade

2010-12-06 Thread Weiqi Gao
personal then i personally apologize. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- 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

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Bob Lee declines to support Java standardisation charade

2010-12-03 Thread Weiqi Gao
get elected because he didn't get enough votes. He was then invited to be part of two Expert Groups for these two JSR, which he declined. It's admittedly a bit confusing, but Liam has been right since the beginning about this. -- Cédric -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com

Re: [The Java Posse] Relative productivity of C/C++ relative to Java

2010-09-28 Thread Weiqi Gao
remember seeing Ted Neward blog about the surprise he felt when he peeked into the Boost libraries a few years ago. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

[The Java Posse] The www.javaposse.com website is down

2010-08-27 Thread Weiqi Gao
Greetings Java Posse, According to http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.javaposse.com It's not just you! http://www.javaposse.com looks down from here. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

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

2010-08-11 Thread Weiqi Gao
]));DWait.ready(cssms/chrome/ad-hug.css, new Function); }} /script -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- 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

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

2010-07-01 Thread Weiqi Gao
, you have to use Tabs for indenting and use Spaced for spacing. Using spaces for indenting would be evil. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ On 07/01/2010 05:27 AM, Paul King wrote: I tend to be in the 'tabs are evil camp' most of the time. Not that they are evil

[The Java Posse] #307 TIOBE: JavaScript drops in popularity

2010-05-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
In addition to the huge gains in popularity of Objective-C and Go, I also noticed the four-down-arrows drop of JavaScript (from 8 to 12). Anyone want to comment on why that is? -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Suns position on Delegates years ago

2009-12-03 Thread Weiqi Gao
-in to the Windows platform. Given this, yes, I think Sun had to go to court. RMI was worth defending for. JNI, not so much. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

[The Java Posse] Re: Netbeans 6.8 beta

2009-10-25 Thread Weiqi Gao
desarrollo integrado NetBeans 6.8 beta está disponible para descargar! Saludos -- Marcelo Morales -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

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

2009-09-11 Thread Weiqi Gao
this, it takes it as function application: the function + (the addition operator) is applied to the values of a and b given by the caller of the function. Now you can type (add 1 2) ;;; and clojure will produce the answer: 3 http://clojure.org // Ben -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com

[The Java Posse] Re: VMWare buys SpringSource - thoughts?

2009-08-10 Thread Weiqi Gao
Josh Long wrote: VMWare buys SpringSource - thoughts? http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/10/springsource-chapter-two/ Who will buy VMWare? I.B.M.? -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

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

2009-08-01 Thread Weiqi Gao
Mark Derricutt wrote: Why hasn't any one written a c# compiler for the jvm yet? Hasn't MainSoft written one? It goes the other direction as IKVM (MSIL = Java bytecode). It's been available for a long time. I don't know of anybody using it. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http

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

2009-08-01 Thread Weiqi Gao
, as mentioned in the show and earlier on the thread, Microsoft is paying for all the Linux/Mono stuff. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java

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

2009-07-11 Thread Weiqi Gao
other occasion, people beat Linux with Mac OS X? Surely Linux supports more hardwares than Mac OS X, doesn't it? -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[The Java Posse] Re: OT: Opinions on Mono

2009-07-02 Thread Weiqi Gao
, so I'm sorry, I can't take your disclaimer as a fact. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send

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

2009-05-06 Thread Weiqi Gao
--as a developer I know how much work it must have taken--it was a necessary first step in a much needed direction. We'll see where things will go soon enough. Overall I give JavaFX a 'B-' - ed -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog

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

2009-04-29 Thread Weiqi Gao
issues, like closures, immutability and if Dick loves the Groovy... :o) -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

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

2009-04-03 Thread Weiqi Gao
Josh Suereth wrote: Have you *ever* switched vendors for a product? Yes. If anyone haven't switched vendors for a product, she will, eventually. Products die. And unless you want to die with it, you switch. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog

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

2009-03-16 Thread Weiqi Gao
in the NetBeans code base to remedy such clashes. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email

[The Java Posse] Re: #229: The Pair class

2009-02-08 Thread Weiqi Gao
? this.cdr.hashCode() : 0); return hash; } } -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post to this group, send email

[The Java Posse] Re: #229: The Pair class

2009-02-08 Thread Weiqi Gao
Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: If you've been adding it to every project, why not make a jar out of it? Because that would be more work than writing the class. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Not just as a Swing replacement?

2009-01-28 Thread Weiqi Gao
. If there is another domain that exhibits characteristics similar to what the language will support, then yes, JavaFX Script may turn out to help a lot. These are observations from outside of Sun. The Sun folks on the list may provide insights from the inside. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com

[The Java Posse] Re: Apple Java on the Mac - What we have here is a failure to communicate.

2009-01-27 Thread Weiqi Gao
JDK is available on Windows. For a while, if you are on 32-bit Windows, you had a choice of which JVM to use: Sun's, Microsoft's, or IBM's. And browsers came with hard-coded embedded JVMs: Netscape Navigator used the Sun JVM and Microsoft IE used the Microsoft JVM. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi

[The Java Posse] Re: #225 - Wish list for Java 8 and 9

2009-01-16 Thread Weiqi Gao
is plausible? This is exactly how the Open Source Java theme played out. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse group. To post

[The Java Posse] Re: Ho Ho Ho

2009-01-14 Thread Weiqi Gao
have been a muuuch better idea. Come on guys! Nobody reads what the installation program says. They just click on OK and get on with their lives. What did your Firefox installation dialog box say the last time you installed it? What about Thunderbird? Chrome? Flash? Silverlight? -- Weiqi

[The Java Posse] #225 - Wish list for Java 8 and 9

2009-01-12 Thread Weiqi Gao
and file Java developers need to know Java *is moving forward* and not *standing still*, for some definition of moving forward. -- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

[The Java Posse] #222 - CORBA people don't want the ORB in the JDK either

2008-12-23 Thread Weiqi Gao
-- Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
or 140 characters, whichever is shorter. And you have to keep saying it for fifteen years or until everyone agrees with you, whichever is earlier. As an example, the message for object-orientation was: OO is encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. It lets you reuse your code. -- Weiqi

[The Java Posse] Re: Scala for the enterprise?

2008-12-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
ijuma wrote: On Dec 20, 2:35 am, Weiqi Gao weiqi...@gmail.com wrote: As long as you smart people are having discussions like this, us enterprise developers will just wait. :) You mean that _some_ enterprise developers will wait. Just in this thread, Peter said that he's using

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-10 Thread Weiqi Gao
easily.) -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[The Java Posse] Re: Episode #220 link - JavaFX binding demo

2008-12-07 Thread Weiqi Gao
carljmosca wrote: Is this demo current? The JavaFX binding demo link (http://jfx.wikia.com/wiki/Introduction_to_Binding_in_JavaFX) is JavaFX Preview SDK based and is not current. Good JavaFX SDK 1.0 sample programs can be found at http://www.javafx.com/samples/. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL

[The Java Posse] Re: What would you like to know about JavaFX

2008-11-25 Thread Weiqi Gao
Eric Klein, who I believe is one of the hosts of the Ain't Your Dad potcast, put the time at end of year 2008. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[The Java Posse] Re: What would you like to know about JavaFX

2008-11-24 Thread Weiqi Gao
what you would like to know about JavaFX so that we can pass the questions along. What will be the licensing model for JavaFX, especially for the parts that are not openly developed (everything except the openjfx-compiler and the Scenario scene graph library)? -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep #217: Licensing

2008-11-19 Thread Weiqi Gao
on their own time, I do not wish to add the extra work onto their shoulders (work that us listeners can do quite capably). They are busy creating and producing the podcast as it is. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You

[The Java Posse] Re: Ep #217: Licensing

2008-11-18 Thread Weiqi Gao
to mention license terms when a product is talked about on JavaPosse, my personal feeling is that it is not necessary. People can figure that out by themselves. If you have that extra 900 milliseconds, use it to talk about what the product does and how it does it. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED

[The Java Posse] Re: Hot news! JavaFX Desktop ship date Dec 2!

2008-11-08 Thread Weiqi Gao
. They apparently announced this at a presentation in Korea and the news wasn't passed along. Pretty cool! Patrick Thanks, Patrick. I did a little transcript of the relevant segment here: http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2008/11/08/javafx_december_2.html -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[The Java Posse] Re: Influential Java programmers should learn C#

2008-11-03 Thread Weiqi Gao
all ultimately fail. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[The Java Posse] Re: Can't wait for episode w/ Gafter

2008-09-26 Thread Weiqi Gao
, Jeremy Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume and hope it will be the next release. Really curious to find out what Gafter will be working on at Microsoft. Which is more significant? A java guy going to MS, or a googler going to MS? -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com

[The Java Posse] Re: the anti-helper class meme

2008-09-24 Thread Weiqi Gao
. The exception: + Merge helper and helpee into one class when sensible to do so. Any questions? -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java

[The Java Posse] Re: any comments on this new JCODER Java IDE?

2008-09-18 Thread Weiqi Gao
-the-future-of-java-on- -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

[The Java Posse] Re: Mac vs PC - $1075 premium for a comparable Mac

2008-09-03 Thread Weiqi Gao
. -- Weiqi Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ hlovatt wrote: I think there are two factors as to why PC manufacturers find it hard to compete with Apple at the top end: 1. They cannot distinguish their user interface; they get Windows. In a luxury branded car you get