[The Java Posse] Re: Rebuttal of groovy popularity assessment (episode #224)

2009-01-12 Thread sherod
The Groovy/Grails support in Netbeans is quite good, perhaps a little rougher than the Rails/Ruby support. Both are better than the JavaFX support, which continues to frustrate me on a daily basis *sigh*. On Jan 13, 2:58 am, greggobridges wrote: > On Jan 10, 4:40 pm, Dick Wall wrote: > > > Big

[The Java Posse] Re: why doesn't java allocate memory as needed (max heap size)

2009-01-12 Thread sherod
> swap if required. By my experience, that approach speeds up Ant and > Maven builds by order of magnitudes - makesNetBeansfly. > And a word of warning, Netbeans projects on a SMB share / windows network shared drive, has the opposite effect, it may make you want to kill Netbeans. Or others.

[The Java Posse] Re: why doesn't java allocate memory as needed (max heap size)

2008-12-31 Thread sherod
It's things like this that gives Java such a low reputation in some operational areas. This is how the 'real world' should work: System monitoring software watches memory usage on a process / machine. It alerts operational staff when it moved beyond acceptable bounds Investigation starts - actio

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX course

2008-12-25 Thread sherod
Data capture is pretty weak at the moment, you'll be bailing out to swing controls pretty quickly (e.g. want a multi-line text control?) Since all that's likely to change in 1.5 / 2.0 - you might want to leave that until the last part of the course and start with the bread and butter (animation, m

[The Java Posse] Re: Christmas Wishlist Trivia

2008-12-23 Thread sherod
- No more IBM software. - No more global Initiatives - No more politics - No more apathy - A warm puppy --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to jav

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX Script crash course. Shiny!

2008-12-23 Thread sherod
I've been working with JFX since launch and I'm comfortable with it being just beside the current Java. But I can't say I've ever bought into the whole 'OMG we need a better Java now!' argument, I mean if you want a hammer, buy a hammer, don't complain your screw driver should be more hammer like

[The Java Posse] Java FX update out

2008-12-19 Thread sherod
http://blogs.sun.com/javafx/entry/javafx_1_0_sdk_update Now with streaming video. Seems to work well with my quick checks. (Mac OSX) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post t

[The Java Posse] Anybody deployed OpenESB into a production environment?

2008-12-18 Thread sherod
If you have, feel free to drop me a line, I'd like to ask you some questions... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 T

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - Perhaps no JSR-295, 296 and 310.

2008-12-16 Thread sherod
It's ironic isn't it. Date handling is used in almost every Java program and yet 1 guy is working on improvements 3 hours a week. If a community wants to solve a problem, how about this one instead of yet another web frame work / app server / logging system? (Yes, I could follow my own advice a

[The Java Posse] Re: OT: content filtering on the net

2008-12-13 Thread sherod
This friewall idea is making us Aussies look almost as dumb as kiwis. :) On Dec 13, 10:51 am, "Peter Becker" wrote: > [was: Loose Coupling vs. Information Hiding and Ease of Change] > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Vince O'Sullivan > > wrote: > > > On Dec 12, 11:50 am, Casper Bang wrote:

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX in the wild?

2008-12-12 Thread sherod
Yeah, I started that last sentence in one state of mind and finished it in another... I think Java library integration and threading maybe - are the big thing. On Dec 13, 1:44 am, Joe Data wrote: > Hi! > > On Dec 12, 5:22 am, sherod wrote: > > > I think that showing some dee

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impression #2

2008-12-12 Thread sherod
orner   > of the editor buffer. > > -j > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 3:07 AM, sherod wrote: > > > > > > > Mercy.  Three pages and 63 posts is too much for me, so here is a new > > thread for further comments > > > Josh.  The preview feature you ment

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX in the wild?

2008-12-12 Thread sherod
x/ > > > Josh Juneau > > juneau...@gmail.com > >http://jj-blogger.blogspot.com > >http://www.gathereventplanning.com > > Twitter ID:  javajuneau > > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:07 PM, sherod   > > wrote: > > >> You've never seen my code *gri

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX in the wild?

2008-12-11 Thread sherod
You've never seen my code *grin* On Dec 12, 9:24 am, "Mark Derricutt" wrote: > Can't get much worse than some of the Air clients out there I'm sure :) > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:21 AM, sherod wrote: > > > As I tweeted, I'm trying. > >

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX in the wild?

2008-12-11 Thread sherod
As I tweeted, I'm trying. I can't promise 'decent' though :) On Dec 12, 7:44 am, "Mark Derricutt" wrote: > Has anyone seen any JavaFX apps in the wild yet?  I'm dying for a decent > Twitter client (esp. after twhirl's new update compains "this app requires a > version of air thats no longer ava

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 7 features - NO CLOSURES!

2008-12-11 Thread sherod
Wow. You've just summarized the last 12 months of popular topics on the group in three lines :) On Dec 12, 5:02 am, Hairless_ape wrote: > What the hell! No closures. Still broken generics. > > Ah well at least there will be invokedynamic. > > I'm afraid that with this, Java is dying. --~--~--

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

2008-12-10 Thread sherod
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_update_12 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to th

[The Java Posse] JavaFX: Impression #2

2008-12-10 Thread sherod
Mercy. Three pages and 63 posts is too much for me, so here is a new thread for further comments Josh. The preview feature you mention, is that Netbeans on Windows only? I can't seem to find it on OSX... --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becaus

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans funny OutOfMemoryError message

2008-12-10 Thread sherod
I had one the other day where I was using a data import tool that ran for some time and its concluding dialog of completion had only one button labeled 'Cancel' I must say I pressed it with some fear, but it seemed to not cancel the import, but just close the dialog box. On Dec 11, 1:00 am, "Vik

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Programming environment

2008-12-09 Thread sherod
Can't we all just get along? :o) On Dec 10, 1:27 pm, "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And with this I declare a new segment for the next posse: javascript of the > week! :-) > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Huh? You are very good at t

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

2008-12-07 Thread sherod
A word of warning to those Googling, unless its on JavaFX.com or posted after December 4th you should treat any other demo/samples/ education as an interesting historical artifact. The language and API has changed quite a bit - using preview code will result in a sea of compilation issues. On De

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-07 Thread sherod
You need to download the dtfx.js and modify it as the images are hard coded: if (width >= 100 && height >= 100) { imgURL = 'http://dl.javafx.com/javafx- loading-100x100.gif'; imgWidth = 100; imgHeight = 100; } else { imgURL = 'http:/

[The Java Posse] Re: Architecture - Multiple web apps operating on the same data

2008-12-07 Thread sherod
Can I suggest that if you are seriously building a banking system and you need to request architectural advice to an internet news group, that you need to cease the project now :o) But my thoughts: Don't cache above the database unless you have a specific problem with performance you need to sol

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-07 Thread sherod
I just wanted to say, ignore the tech talk, just watch the media player demo for the movie. I found it amusing :) http://javafx.com/samples/SimpleVideoPlayer/index.html There is a definite difference between Windows/OSX performance - that 1.6u10 really makes a different in start up times. Java

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-04 Thread sherod
.It came out 2 days ago and is a bug fix issue mainly. On Dec 5, 9:53 am, Matt Scully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .> but when did 6u11 come out?  Was that released today as .> well? .> .> --matt --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscri

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-04 Thread sherod
JavaFX.com is back again in full 'glory'. The examples I tried all worked, and pretty quickly. I would say the load times on some were as normal as one would expect from Flash (Excluding the 'approve this thing to run' dialog boxes). I better get back to my day job. --~--~-~--~~

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX: Impressions?

2008-12-04 Thread sherod
Guys, calm down :) I got the source code for the video demo version before the site went down and am running it on my PC. At first I thought, this is a load of shit, audio is cutting out, not playing video Then I figure out how the cube actually worked. At the moment, I have a spinning cub

[The Java Posse] Re: Episode 220 - Already Up...

2008-12-04 Thread sherod
I'm finding the Adobe sponsorship of RIA weekly (And the Adobe co- hosting) seems impacts on RIA weekly's impartiality. They've noticed they've asked some pointed questions of non-Flex technologies - but don't go to the same places when talking about Flex. Maybe its just my perception. On Dec 4

[The Java Posse] Adobe cuts 8% of staff

2008-12-04 Thread sherod
http://www.reuters.com/article/hotStocksNews/idUSTRE4B28D920081203 (A bit of balance after all that 'Sun cuts 18%, death of Java imminent' news :) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" gr

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

2008-12-02 Thread sherod
No technology on earth is able to accomplish this. :o) .On Dec 3, 11:41 am, "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .> Agreed - I also think the final, and most important question is:  Will .> knowing JavaFX get me laid? And if so, will it be more than if I knew >. Silverlight or Flash? :

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

2008-12-01 Thread sherod
It was late, I'd been drinking, one thing lead to another :o) On Dec 2, 12:12 pm, "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No no - we can blame you for listening to their podcast :) > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:58 PM, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

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

2008-12-01 Thread sherod
Don't blame me, blame your marketing department - They can't keep their mouths shut. - :o) On Dec 2, 11:37 am, Joshua Marinacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sh! > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:35 PM, sherod wrote: > > > > > > > You might be interest

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

2008-12-01 Thread sherod
You might be interested to know that an Eclipse Plugin is in the works from Sun relating to JavaFX > Having to switch to a new non- > Eclipse editor isnt great.  Productivity is the key. > > Still it is an interesting technology and I can see some possibilities > for killer functionality in my ap

[The Java Posse] Re: Episode #218 - misinformation about Mono

2008-11-27 Thread sherod
I'd always pigeon holed Mono as being one of those Microsoft token efforts at cross platform 'openess' aimed at avoiding anti-trust lawsuits and generally put that little bit of confusion and doubt into the non-Windows community. (What with Mono being backed by Novell and Novell being backed by M

[The Java Posse] Re: Dick wall, an unsettling name

2008-11-27 Thread sherod
Agreed, a point I was trying to get across in my earlier posts on this thread, but much more indirectly than you have. On Nov 27, 9:08 pm, Martin OConnor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm glad to see that Dick, or indeed any of the other Javaposse have > not dignified this thread with a response

[The Java Posse] Re: Java builds (maven, ant), the java way is broken!

2008-11-26 Thread sherod
We use Nexus also. Works well. On Nov 27, 9:10 am, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brent, > > Have you tried Archiva? And if so, what are the advantages of Nexus > over Archiva? > > /Casper > > On Nov 26, 9:03 pm, Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I highly recommend using Nexus

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX/Flex "comparison"

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
). On Nov 26, 11:33 am, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That motorola demo works fine on the machine I'm on at the moment. > > And it's only Java is Java 1.5.0_06. > > The only thing that demo lacked was a custom loading screen and > removal of the stupid

[The Java Posse] Re: Dick wall, an unsettling name

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
http://home.st.net.au/~dunn/ozatwar/aussieslang.htm#r On Nov 26, 11:54 am, "Peter Becker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Mate -- try living in Australia one day: every word seems to ha

[The Java Posse] Re: Dick wall, an unsettling name

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
> Mate -- try living in Australia one day: every word seems to have a > rude meaning down under and "buggery" is just one of these words you > can put pretty much everywhere. I got into the habit of using it > before even knowing it's original meaning. Even your shell prompt gets > offensive duri

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

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
You are right, I was wrong, I can't believe something that I heard off marketing people turned out to be incorrect!! That *never* happens in my experience. *grin* On Nov 26, 12:56 am, Weiqi Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sherod wrote: > > The "This ain't your

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

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
Flash used to need convuluted tags :) http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_4150 On Nov 26, 3:44 am, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well pardon me for wanting a clean, clear and consistent deployment > model in my browser, without necessarily needing JavaScript t

[The Java Posse] Re: JavaFX/Flex "comparison"

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
That motorola demo works fine on the machine I'm on at the moment. And it's only Java is Java 1.5.0_06. The only thing that demo lacked was a custom loading screen and removal of the stupid 'verify signed application' dialog. Its the tiny little things like this that really, really, really matt

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

2008-11-25 Thread sherod
The "This ain't your Dad's Java" podcast title for today was "The one before the launch" and the marketing team have been tweeting all week about various prep things. It's going to be the 2nd of December. On Nov 25, 8:14 pm, "Adam G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know, why does i

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

2008-11-24 Thread sherod
How about: 'why do you think the java community has so much angst and loathing built up toward jfx?' On Nov 25, 6:14 am, mbien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 24, 7:53 pm, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> What's the > purpose of reviving the applet tag which was deprecated by > > W

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to sell itself or some of its assets?

2008-11-20 Thread sherod
The trouble I see in the blogosphere is there is a serious lack of friends out there for Sun, the open source types haven't bought the vision and are still treating Sun like its one of the other evil major vendors and the commercially aligned folk are tied to their old mindset's of paying big buc

[The Java Posse] Re: UI muscle memory kills me! Joe please Help!

2008-11-20 Thread sherod
I was intially going to say: "Madness!" as I've experienced this kind of auto popup thing before and found it inevitably automatically covered some aspect of the element I was looking at, or tried to auto guess a location and was generally annoying. But the fact it's always on the left hand side

[The Java Posse] Re: Twitter

2008-11-19 Thread sherod
I find its an excellent substitute for actual friends. That way I can live vicariously through strangers - see, Dick has new golf clubs, and, through twitter, I also feel I share in them. :o) Seriously, its just a fun toy, their business model is more difficult to find that a use for it. On No

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

2008-11-19 Thread sherod
I'm in the same boat, I don't commit the license type of every project to memory, but I confirm commercial restrictions on use, or know I have to arrange the purchase of the commercial version. It's up to Dick in the end, but that's the kind of purpose I use the podcast for, keeping up with devel

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

2008-11-18 Thread sherod
I am interested in the license info, GPL vs non-GPL is very important in what I do. I've never seriously used the word 'freetard', i think it could get you into trouble in some circles. I prefer the traditional Australian judgment of 'bloody idiot'. On Nov 19, 8:46 am, DAemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[The Java Posse] Re: Twitter

2008-11-18 Thread sherod
Are we restricted to only fake-stalking? j/k. On Nov 19, 8:43 am, kibitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I was already following @joeracer but now I can follow @dickwall > and @cquinn as well! Consider yourselves fake-stalked. And Tor, c'mon, > get on Twitter! I mean hey, @netbeans is there

[The Java Posse] Re: Eclipse on 64bit

2008-11-18 Thread sherod
Not PermGen space is it? http://tassos.blogentis.net/2006/06/08/eclipse-and-permgen-space Is there a technical reason for these kind of hard limits on memory types? It just seems to be a recipe for unneeded breakage of stuff On Nov 18, 7:46 pm, srakyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to sell itself or some of its assets?

2008-11-14 Thread sherod
k Derricutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   > > wrote: > > Rich Green has retired 6000 jobs cut :( > > >http://www.indicthreads.com/news/1272/sun_layoffs_rich_green_leaves_g... > > > If I wasn't already sitting down I think I'd have to.  Maybe I   > > s

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to sell itself or some of its assets?

2008-11-14 Thread sherod
1 in 5. That sucks. I wish them all the best. On Nov 15, 2:31 am, Joe Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here we go - Sun lays off 18% of their staff and restructures their > software > group:http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/14/news/companies/sun_microsystems/index... > > I guess we have to wait an

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans... nice!

2008-11-13 Thread sherod
I just discovered the search feature on the top right hand corner. When did that get there? (Please don't say its always been there) On Nov 14, 2:37 am, Tor Norbye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you guys running NetBeans with JDK6 -update1- or later? If so, the > look and feel should pic

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to sell itself or some of its assets?

2008-11-12 Thread sherod
On a serious note, I also found this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/06/sun_software_earnings_q1_2009/ "For the first quarter of Sun's fiscal 2009, Java pulled in $34m, an increase of 17.2 per cent on the year before. That compared to 20 per cent and 41 per cent for the proceeding years."

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to sell itself or some of its assets?

2008-11-12 Thread sherod
> bad during these times thou > > /derek > > sherod wrote: > > I attached a screen grab of SUN vs NASDAQ and Microsoft / Google / > > IBM / Oracle / Yahoo > > > Everybody has gone done, but Sun's decrease is much more profound and > > is well below the

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to sell itself or some of its assets?

2008-11-12 Thread sherod
I attached a screen grab of SUN vs NASDAQ and Microsoft / Google / IBM / Oracle / Yahoo Everybody has gone done, but Sun's decrease is much more profound and is well below the market. http://javaposse.googlegroups.com/web/suncap.JPG?gsc=aToTdBYAAACmKAbXu_rFUyV3j_5vCDIO2eLEDst71Ngwix2Erb-dvw It

[The Java Posse] Re: UI design ideas ..

2008-11-12 Thread sherod
I like the Office 2007 Ribbon and you can be assured MS did a vast amount of UI testing on it, read more about the process here: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/ I'd go with context specific display of options. If you've never read Jakob Nielson's work look here: http://www.useit.com/ I think m

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to Distribute MSN Toolbar with Java

2008-11-10 Thread sherod
You hadn't noticed that I've been quiet lately? On Nov 11, 3:12 pm, "Mark Derricutt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pray tell sherod - how did you drive the boat from the workshop without the > original car?  Or a trailer? > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:0

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to Distribute MSN Toolbar with Java

2008-11-10 Thread sherod
I fail to see what's wrong with downloading a system level - supposed to be invisible - application and ending up with a free word processor. I put my car in for an oil change last week and it came back as a boat. I was chuffed. On Nov 11, 12:40 pm, Casper Bang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I al

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun to Distribute MSN Toolbar with Java

2008-11-10 Thread sherod
"Starting Monday, when Internet Explorer users download the Java Runtime Environment, they'll be offered as part of the setup process a download of the MSN Toolbar. The toolbar includes a search field and news headlines. The Java Runtime Environment is the engine that runs Java programs on compute

[The Java Posse] Re: SwingX is dead, long live JavaFX (hopefully)

2008-11-09 Thread sherod
My comment about 'apparent death' was not based on the belief either 295 or 296 were actually announced as abandoned, but since 296's last SVN commit was 3 months ago, and up until 3 weeks ago 295 hadn't had a commit in 12 months neither could be accused of being particularly lively. (The world i

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

2008-11-08 Thread sherod
This is actually a good podcast, if you want to hear about Java: "The Business" Quote sure to cause this group to erupt: "Ranting about if closures are includes in Java SE 7 becomes highly irrelevant..." I took that quote out of context to stir interest, go listen to the podcast. :o) Patric

[The Java Posse] Re: SwingX is dead, long live JavaFX (hopefully)

2008-11-08 Thread sherod
With the apparent death of JSR 295 and 296 I give thanks that we decided to use Eclipse RCP as the basis of our desktop application development. On Nov 8, 9:34 am, robeden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys - > > I'm sure through Dick's wandering through the world of Java posts > you've probab

[The Java Posse] Re: NetBeans... nice!

2008-11-07 Thread sherod
I have issues with reliability in eclipse, esp once I get a few plugins going. And it's plugin ecosystem/discovery is a mess. I've been using Netbeans RC for Grails/Groovy development for the past week or so, it's been good, and some of the performance oddites I seemed to experience in 6.0 aren'

[The Java Posse] Dragable applets...

2008-11-04 Thread sherod
I'm using a few widgets to track that little election thing thats going on in the States and I would dearly love to have dragged some of these election map widgets off my browser and onto my desktop. Sadly they are in Flash and refuse the budge from my browser :). Maybe that's the dragable apple

[The Java Posse] WYSIWYG editors and visual layout tools

2008-10-23 Thread sherod
Hi all Is anybody aware of any papers / articles / books which explain the principles behind doing a visual designer type tool that involves the dragging of visual objects onto a palette with auto layout and/or a wysiwyg text editor? It's always something I've been interested in find out more ab

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 6 Update 10 Shipped?

2008-10-21 Thread sherod
I've included 1.6.10 in our new installation package and ran one of the BA's through the installation process. I used the silent option on Java's install package, it went so smoothly I had to run java -version to see if it had worked :) I'm toying with using the kernel installer, but that might

[The Java Posse] Re: iPhonePosse

2008-10-08 Thread sherod
ah. My fear of annoying my wife far exceeds my fear of leaving my iPhone at home. North Sydney not scary? You obviously don't fear the roving fitness first promo people threatening to drag you off to the gym at the slightest provocation! On Oct 9, 12:56 pm, Michael Neale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

[The Java Posse] Re: Old Java versions in use

2008-10-02 Thread sherod
I find it ironic that the language designed to run everywhere now means you need to carry your JVM with you whereever you go. The next evolution seems to be 'carry your own appserver', with several recent OS tools I've used suggesting or requiring you to use their own tomcat or jetty instances.

[The Java Posse] Re: BIRT reporting tool and POI ?

2008-09-29 Thread sherod
Its been around a little while, we're using it on our project for PDF generation for a desktop application and a web application (Shared engine). It's pretty powerful (For something thats free), there is a pretty good report designer and it has lots of functionality for working with SQL data sour

[The Java Posse] Re: Never been able to run Netbeans 6+ on OS X 10.5 on Intel Mac core2 duo

2008-09-27 Thread sherod
7;-Dorg.glassfish.v3.installRoot=/Applications/NetBeans/ > > glassfish-v3-prelude-b15b' '-Dcom.sun.aas.installRoot=/Applications/ > > NetBeans/glassfish-v2ur2' '-Dorg.glassfish.v3.installRoot=/ > > Applications/NetBeans/glassfish-v3-prelude-b15b' '- > > Dcom.sun.aa

[The Java Posse] Re: Never been able to run Netbeans 6+ on OS X 10.5 on Intel Mac core2 duo

2008-09-27 Thread sherod
Have you checked permissions on the directory and executables? I was running Netbeans using sudo for a while due to some kind of issue with permissions, I can't recall if it was the same symptoms you describe. ranjith wrote: > I had a tough time running Netbeasn(both 6 and 6.5) on intel core2 du

[The Java Posse] Re: What CMS are people actually using?

2008-09-24 Thread sherod
ed directly from > > the admin UI (no need to change XML files and redeploy). > > > I am just wondering in general if there is a really good java CMS out > > there that everybody likes. But the lack of response to this post > > makes me wonder a bit... > > > Ruben &

[The Java Posse] Re: What CMS are people actually using?

2008-09-24 Thread sherod
I decided to check out Magnolia, the 'open source' label needs to be tempered by the fact that the enterprise license is $22,000 per annum! Ruben, are you familiar with Magnolia? It's manual seems to run to about 3 pages on how to create templates (that and some taglib docs), which seems a littl

[The Java Posse] Re: T-Mobile G1 "Google phone"

2008-09-24 Thread sherod
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/a-first-look-at-googles-new-phone/?em http://www.t-mobileg1.com/ Lack of playing video is a killer for me TV Shows and movies are now on the iTunes store in Oz and I can watch them on my phone on the train. (lets ignore the fact that I'm in contract for

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

2008-09-23 Thread sherod
Aggressive adherence to any particular ideology is never the best answer to any problem. A little 'help' can go a long way in the right places, I wouldn't turn myself in knots if I had a problem that inherently needed it. On Sep 24, 9:00 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've

[The Java Posse] Re: Choosing wide scale set of web Java client/server technologies

2008-09-23 Thread sherod
We're using ext-js and have gone HTTP POST name values pairs in one direction with JSON formatted responses on the basis of simplicity and noise to signal ratio is much better than XML. We toyed with ext-gwt but its not fully up to feature parity with ext- js and we needed all the features. We'v

[The Java Posse] Re: GC Notification

2008-09-19 Thread sherod
Looks like microsoft offers something for the CLR *sigh* http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/sasha/archive/2008/08/25/garbage-collection-notifications-in-net-3-5-sp1.aspx These might also help, I didn't see anything like this tho http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html http:

[The Java Posse] Re: java array question

2008-09-11 Thread sherod
A suggestion, perhaps this problem could probably be much easily solved in straight SQL. select username, month_number, sum(jobcount) from jobs group by username, month_number That will get you the sum of job counts by username and month. Then its a matter of turning the list of results into a

[The Java Posse] Re: Java 6 update 10 - Chrome - OSX?

2008-09-09 Thread sherod
Did anybody hear that thud? It sounded like a lead apple wrapped in an NDA. Dirk?.. Dirk!? Anyway, interestingly the 6 update 7 that is on developer access fixes one of my biggest Netbeans issues: AWT/Swing windows don't work with Spaces I also sent listener feedback about Java/Apple to

[The Java Posse] Re: moreBrowsers() == better?

2008-09-08 Thread sherod
More browsers = more pain, particularly if you are coding to the 'bare metal' of each browsers maximum capabilities although some of the frameworks make it easier to abstract away the truly odd bits. On one hand, more browsers == more innovation and competition, but it may be years before an inno

[The Java Posse] Re: Java Hotspot VM - an inferior web RIA runtime

2008-09-06 Thread sherod
As a purely unscientific asides loading this page, using a Javascript RIA based technology, adds 30MB to my Safari footprint http://www.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/desktop/desktop.html And loading this flex based demo site adds a 110MB http://flex.org/showcase/ It's interesting, a f

[The Java Posse] Getting Chrome working through NTLM proxy

2008-09-04 Thread sherod
Hi all. I've had a few people contact me directly about how I got Chrome working through an NTLM proxy. At the time, it turned out I actually hadn't, I suspect it was a temporary issue with the company proxy server that let me through, but the inquiries have made me seek a real solution. You c

[The Java Posse] Re: Groovy, Scala, et al - Can a serious Java replacement contender be slow?

2008-09-04 Thread sherod
I'm not sure what you mean by that (ie, do you mean it was, or it wasn't) I recall that "Starting Java..." was a cause of much groaning when Netscape 2 came out and I met my first applets :) Even now "Java is Slow" is the reaction from most rank and file people who aren't Java people, for exam

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome + Canvas + Gears + GWT + App Engine

2008-09-04 Thread sherod
-polish/2008/09/04/1220121390718.html On Sep 4, 5:22 pm, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Microsoft had that stack circa 1999 with Visual Studio and IE 4, it > all fell apart on the cross browser / interoperability thing. > > If Google is seriously intending to be The One True

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome + Canvas + Gears + GWT + App Engine

2008-09-04 Thread sherod
Microsoft had that stack circa 1999 with Visual Studio and IE 4, it all fell apart on the cross browser / interoperability thing. If Google is seriously intending to be The One True Stack for the web, then they are doomed to fail, I think the internet generates anti- bodies to kill off that kind

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-04 Thread sherod
ot working again :) On Sep 4, 4:03 am, "luis.cornejo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @Sherod, > > I was testing it out can you gives us the lowdown on how you enabled > ntlm? > > TIA > -luis- > > On Sep 2, 5:25 pm, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[The Java Posse] Re: GoogleChrome: delighted or disillusioned?

2008-09-03 Thread sherod
I took 1.6 u10 for a spin around the web and tried to find applets to try it out with. Any site older than 10 years or associated with the science community wee the best chance of finding something That said the applets lpased and ran much faster than I recall they used to. On Sep 4, 4:01 am, Ca

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

2008-09-02 Thread sherod
My history of reliability: Toshiba Tablet PC, >$4K - fan failure in 2nd year Dell Inspiron 8600, ~$2.6K - hard drive and video card failure in 2nd year Sony Vaio, $2.5K - mainboard failure in 1st year iBook G4 - track pad failure in first week, replaced with new laptop MacBook C2D, 2nd year, some

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread sherod
I take it back, it does work with NTLM proxy servers. On Sep 3, 7:59 am, sherod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, it doesn't work through a corporate ISA proxy server that uses > NTLM authentication, so I'm left to surf the corporate intranet. > > Wow, look at

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread sherod
Sadly, it doesn't work through a corporate ISA proxy server that uses NTLM authentication, so I'm left to surf the corporate intranet. Wow, look at those HR polices. Anyway, Firefox is the only loser with this browser as I think browser users fall into two camps 1. Ones who switch to the lates

[The Java Posse] Tracing JIT compiler for Firefox

2008-08-31 Thread sherod
Java gets the (usual) dishonorable mention with Mozilla implying that their tracing JIT compiler is superior to the JIT solution in Java. Anybody with stronger experience than I with this stuff care to comment? *Start quote* Traditional just-in-time compilers (like Sun’s Hotspot VM) are in thei