Posted Mon, 23 Jan 2006 09:48:00 GMT
Guy Steele is clearly one of the people who is shaping today's computing science. He co-wrote the Java spec and is presently leading the team working on the future Fortress programming language.
This article - http://research.sun.com/minds/2005-0302/ on Sun's site is about him.
I don't know the guy, but by reading this article a few features of his character really stand out for me:
- Takes nothing for granted
- He's very thorough
- Knows how to sell
Now these skills, or characteristics are on very different levels. It's no good being a brilliant technician if you don't know how to trick people into buying your very clever stuff. It's no good being a sleek salesman if you have rubbish to sell. It clearly takes a lot of digging if you want to change the world for the better
Anyway, on the subject of Fortress, it looks great and other than the target audience at first glance I really don't see any big similarities with Fortran. So I'm joining the mailing list.... It's here: http://www.experimentalstuff.com/mailman/listinfo/fortress-interest.
The Fortress spec and other resources can be found on Sun's Programming Language Research web site, here - http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/
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Posted Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:43:56 GMT
This is part one of this very useful article on IBM's devWorks - http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-tapestry1/. There's a link there to part two.
It's not purely technical, but also discusses a development strategy.
The claim is that Tapestry is much easier to use than JSF and Struts and everything else. Well, I suppose not if you've spent years digging into Struts. That's really the big problem for all these frameworks. They probably are great, but people are just too attached to Struts by now. Anyway I think Tapestry and JSF at least must be investigated thoroughly.
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Posted Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:27:00 GMT
Here's what to do if you accidently remove the Detail Pane in the Variables view of WSAD or Eclipse 2's Debug Perspective. Unfortunately the menu item to switch it on or off only appears on right-click in the Detail Pane itself. This means that's once you've accidently removed that pane, there's no way to get to that menu item again (or I didn't find one). However, this can be fixed directly in the
/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.debug.ui/pref_store.ini file by setting org.eclipse.debug.ui.VariableView+org.eclipse. debug.ui.ShowDetailPaneAction=true.
In Rational Application Developer 6 and Eclipse 3, the Detail Pane can not be removed at all.
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Posted Mon, 09 Jan 2006 23:17:00 GMT
Here's the picture of Mavis on the box of version 2 of Mavis Beacon teaches touch- typing -
version 2
And here'the one on her latest v16 deluxe -
version 16
She ain't getting any older is she?....
I mean god bless her, she keeps getting prettier and prettier.....
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Posted Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:55:00 GMT
It was confusingly easy, thanks to the nice Typo software and rubyonrailshost. I'm going to use this to write down my thoughts on software development and all sorts of other IT and computing related subjects. Hehe, there's some seroius junk coming this way..... haha...
Anyway, I now have to figure out a way to make a separate site, where I can put non-IT stuff and make it look different and display different content, yet still use the same database and maybe even the same application instance.
Also, I have to move/copy all the notes that I have made elsewhere to here, so that I can access and seatch them from anywhere I happen to be.
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