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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Friday, 31 May 2002

For those who care, my basketball team is coming in first, and next week we play the people in second place. Should be a huge game - anyone in Sydney, feel free to come along and support the rebel ;) 4:05:48 PM  comment []      Peter Zaharkiv on the Apple java-dev list (use archives/archives to read). Apple has made the noises of being the 'Java Platform', but has yet to deliver. But as Steve stated,in their defense, they're trying. That many applications can't be delivered on the Mac OS, is no failing on the developers part. I have been delivering applications to thousands of users ( Win, Linux, Solaris,Mac), but it's been a battle to maintain the Apple implementation. The applications always work 100% uniformly across Win, Linux, and Solaris in JRE 1.3.1 (same bugs and functionality), but 80% of the problems are always in the Mac implimentation. [cafeaulait.org] 3:56:01 PM  comment []      Decaffeinating Java is an article from Linux Magazine covering all the major Open Source Java projects (NetBeans, JBoss, Jakarta, Jetty etc). Probably not much new here for seasoned J2EE developers - but hopefully it's a good introduction for the Linux and broader OSS community. 3:13:33 PM  comment []      More feedback on Tomcat from Steve (he was a little more extreme than even I - "Tomcat is Dead"). I ran in circles for approximately 8 hours when I ran across Mike Cannon's article Is Tomcat Crap?  You can understand at this point I was pulling what little was left of my hair out by the roots and this was a life preserver to grasp in a sea of conflicting results.  Needless to say it gave me a completely different perspective on things.  This persepctive included the use of resin which I downloaded, installed....edited the config with what would seem to be logical values and *poof* (well, no actual *poof* per se...) it just worked.  [Java Geek] 3:01:47 PM  comment []      Found Steve's blog (Java Geek) today - good to find another J2EE / Java weblog. I should really put up a page with all of them that I've found over the past fortnight. Steve loves IDEA but says he can't use it until it supports JDK 1.4 - sad. What do you need JDK 1.4 for? 3:00:17 PM  comment []      The official word on JDK 1.4 for OSX Basically - will be only for 10.2 (Jaguar) and will not be out 'any time soon'. [dive into mark] 11:27:04 AM  comment []      Consulting 101: So You Want to Hire a Consultant, Do You?. [The FuzzyBlog!] 11:23:53 AM  comment []      Speaking of C#, I'm starting to think I want to get in to some .NET development. I think it'd be fun, and since I bought a copy of VS.NET (which is running very sluggish today), I might as well learn the stuff. My first project will be some C# support classes for OSWorkflow, tying in to the SOAP interfaces enabled by GLUE, the best SOAP implementation ever. Maybe I can convince Pat to work on a .NET SOAP interface for JIRA. IT would be awesome to have a native Windows executable that communicated via SOAP with a JIRA installation anywhere in the world. (And presumably also a VS.NET plugin for JIRA) [PSquad's Corner] 11:21:18 AM  comment []      The greatest show on earth. It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer. A good article, but my favourite quote is the introduction paragraph: "Soccer is in crisis. Soccer is the unchallenged titan of sports, standing astride the globe like a colossus in shorts and shinguards." [Salon.com] 11:05:31 AM  comment []      Looks like Icland is stepping up to be the first country to ditch traditional fossil fuels and move to Hydrogen power. And this is going to take them 30-40 years. I can only imagine how screwed we are when, in a hundred years from now, the US decided to make the switch and comes up with a 200+ year plan to make the migration. I think something drastic needs to happen before anyone will really care. Bush thinks that terrorism is our top priority when 3000 people die. What about in 50 years from now when the global temperature goes up 2 degrees and our coastal cities start getting a little more comfortable with with the ocean? There's going to be a helluva lot more deaths than 3000. Disclaimer: I am not an environmental nut, I barely even recycle, but I do think that we're screwed as a whole if Iceland is the only country that steps up to battle this problem. [PSquad's Corner] 10:59:57 AM  comment []      Fuming Over World Cup's Foam Ball - seems not everyone is happy with the chassis and durable gass-filed micro-balloons. [Wired News] 10:54:26 AM  comment []      Nurturing existing communities: Matt Mower takes my suggestion of NYCBloggers.com as a model for blogging community aggregation a step further: I know very little about my local community.  I know almost nothing about my neighbours.  I've been that way more or less since I moved to London.  It sucks.  It shouldn't be this way. Always interesting. [Curiouser and curiouser!] 10:51:02 AM  comment []      The World Cup soccer ball itself sounds amazing: "It is a truly revolutionary ball. The improved syntactic foam layer, consisting of highly compressible and extremely durable gas-filled micro-balloons, has remarkable energy return properties and additional cushioning for enhanced control and accuracy. A three-layer knitted chassis gives the Fevernova improved three-dimensional performance characteristics, allowing for a more precise and predictable flight path every time. Extensive tests with robots in the adidas football laboratory in Scheinfeld, Germany provide proof of the unprecedented accuracy of the Fevernova." It has a chassis? And durable gas-filled micro-balloons in the outer layer? Wow. I wonder how good the robot soccer players are! 1:22:30 AM  comment []