Tuesday, December 10, 2002

Brett doesn't want to grow up :-) Cedric tells us to grow up  Code conventions (4). Be conservative when you write and open-minded when you read. [Otaku, Cedric's weblog] Cedric arguments about code conventions with Russ. Or better should I say: Russ starts an argument about Cedric's previous post about code conventions. I like Cedric's attitude and conclusion. [Patrick Chanezon's Radio Weblog] But that would mean I'd have to grow up, and stop being such a unprofessional git. Feh. It'll never happen. [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog Zilla] You'd be surprised at how fast it can happen to you :-) Having kids helps. working far from Silicon Valley can help as well. That said my best friend who's a banker recently made fun of me for still listening to AC/DC when coding. How can I explain him that Stockhausen's fine for design, but AC/DC's best for debugging ? I'm 34 already, but still have room to grow ! That said you can take a less passionate view on certain aspects of software design without necessarily losing this childlike capacity to get excited and full of wonder at what we can make these machines do. 5:29:53 PM    comment []

Scott McNealy interview in The Register Scott McNealy on: Sun's secret weapon and its biggest mistake (not you, Apple) By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 06/12/2002 at 14:08 GMT 5:03:10 PM    comment []

WebSphere Portal 4.2 ships WebSphere Portal 4.2 Debuting before end of year; IBM keeps pushing for ownership of enterprise desktop; shoring up content and portlets, disaggregating the buddy list. The new features are Click-to-action, better content management integration, presence ("awareness") through Lotus 4:03:34 PM    comment []

JavaBlogs is Mavenised btw JavaBlogs is Mavenised btw. I forgot to mention, javablogs.com is now completely built, tested and deployed with Maven! Congrats to the Maven guys on producing a kickass piece of software, that's only going to improve with age. (Oh - and if you want to peddle your Maven or javablogs suggestions, try #maven on irc.werken.com) [rebelutionary] Maven continues to spread. 12:27:18 PM    comment []

Pattern testing with aspects Pattern testing with aspects. I've just stumbled on a new project called Pattern Testing that looks interesting, particularly as its being packaged up as a Maven plugin. I remember Vincent telling me about it over lunch a few months ago. Vincent is one of the main developers behind it and he's also an active Jakarta committer and one of the main guys behind Cactus as well as being a committer on Maven and Struts. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog] 12:22:52 PM    comment []

New article on Jelly New article on Jelly. There's a new article at builder.com on Jelly, you can read it here... [jelly] 12:22:12 PM    comment []

JavaIndex JavaIndex. JavaIndex.org: Open-Source Java - conveniently categorized. [Semantic Web Blog, featuring RDF] 12:03:06 PM    comment []

Compile your old TRS-80 Model 1 BASIC programs for the JVM :-) Languages for the JVM. [bayard] responded in one of my comments sections with a great list of  Languages for the Java VM which includes over 160 entries. Some fascinating projects on the list. I never knew so many languages run on top of the JVM. [James Strachan's Radio Weblog] There's even a TRS-80 Model 1 BASIC Interpreter ! Going back to my childhood :-) 11:48:57 AM    comment []

Sun allows JBoss to be J2EE 1.4 certified ! JBoss Soon to be J2EE 1.4 Certified?. According to The Register JBoss has completed J2EE 1.4 support and could become the first appserver to be J2EE 1.4 certified. JBoss will not be a complete implementation of J2EE 1.4, though. The article quotes Marc Fleury saying that APIs for Web services were excluded because of a lack of demand. The APIs will be included should that change, he said. From The Register's article JBoss received the green light last week, after Sun told ComputerWire that it would allow all of the APIs contained in J2EE 1.4 to be open sourced. Fleury had expressed concern that certain critical APIs, including Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) 2.1, would be not be made available to open source organizations [TheServerSide.Com: Your J2EE Community] This is an excellent news ! I'm glad Sun finally opened up the J2EE APIs. JBoss will now receive the recognition it deserves. 11:33:08 AM    comment []