Wednesday, December 11, 2002

Interview: McNealy Unplugged Interview: McNealy Unplugged. Sun CEO compares company to Rodney Dangerfield [InfoWorld: Top News] 6:33:30 PM Google It!      comment []

James Gosling's Jackpot Project James Gosling's Jackpot Project. James Gosling, trying to recover lost ground in the IDE wars, is now working on a new project called Jackpot.  IDEA and Eclipse are so far ahead of the game that's its doubtful that Gosling can add anything new.  However, you can't count out the father of Java and Emacs(?), he just might pull a rabbit out of the hat! What's been released to date is a metrics module (might be good to integrate with Maven) and a class file library (doesn't BCEL do this already?).  Nothing appears revolutionary, but its worth investigating. The goal seems to build some kind of  analysis engine that will slice and dice code, and perhaps add some refactoring capabilities (described elsewhere as an AST transformation library with fast pattern searching).  Also on tap is an architecture that supports dynamic creation of specialized editors for code (apparently with emphasis on preserving comments and whitespaces). [::Manageability::] 6:30:52 PM Google It!      comment []

RDF Query by example , Libby Miller RDF Query by example , Libby Miller. Three principles for creating interoperable data: Use the RDF information model: nodes and arcs Use universal resource identifiers (URIs) where possible: URLs, mailtos Define the structure of information: write schemas (spotted on Dave Beckett's blog ) [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF] 6:28:09 PM Google It!      comment []

IE and Mozilla side by side IE and Mozilla side by side. Scope is a multi-tabbed browser which displays web pages using either the IE or Mozilla engine - or both if you want to compare pages side by side. In addition to being extremely fast, Scope is very, very lightweight - only about 250k for the whole program! Kind of... [Blogzilla - a blog about Mozilla] 6:26:00 PM Google It!      comment []