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

Monday, 19 August 2002

Some great new blogs have been added to the list of Java and J2EE Weblogs - check 'em out. A great way to start the week: The Saturn Times - Gerald Bauer is one of the web's biggest proponents of Web Start, this is his blog. Ovidiu Predescu's Weblog - Ovidiu is an architect with HP during the day, and at night he hacks on Cocoon 2 and AntEater. moatas - Another Java blog starting up. He (or she?) has written a SQL viewer for IDEA - rock! Pushing The Envelope - Darren Hobbs on Java, agile methods, cool Open Source stuff and other random wanderings. He likes OpenSymphony and my blog, must be a good guy. 10:30:22 PM  comment []      Digging through my old email, I found this great quote from from Lance regarding developer source: Interesting effect that we have experienced from "developer source" licensing. Our poor little startup couldn't afford to license Resin, but whenever we ran into a snag or wanted to add a feature we'd write some code and send it off to Scott Ferguson at Caucho. Usually he'd include the idea, though he often re-implemented it (don't know if that implicates the quality of our code, or if Scott just has his own very strict ideas of "how its done"). I don't know why Jive hasn't similarly benefited. I'm sure if we'd ever used it we'd have done the same thing for them. If I can't pay money, I try to pay with participation. 10:16:35 PM  comment []      Thomas has posted an english translation of Implementing OSCache which I mentioned a few weeks ago. Thanks Thomas! 10:06:49 PM  comment []      Some small links from other Java blogging gurus: Russell has some good thoughts about the perils of perfection. I agree, sometimes I try to be too good a developer - which slows down the pace. KISS is the first rule. Get it Done is the second. Joe loves Phoenix now - make up your mind mate David says Roller almost supports Postgres - woop! One more reason to start using it soon. Rickard is absolutely going to town with AOP Random Thoughts. This is solid gold stuff people. 7:47:24 PM  comment []      Mike Roberts is blogging.... pah.. and the first thing he does is shoot me down :) [Joe's Jelly] woop - another Java blogger. Mike is cool, he's currently integrating JIRA for Thoughtworks. What's not to like about that? 7:37:31 PM  comment []      John Markoff has an interesting article on the New York Times about Apple's possible new device: "Mr. Jobs and Apple decline to confirm those plans. But industry analysts see evidence that Apple is contemplating what inside the company is being called an "iPhone." " 7:28:48 PM  comment []      I tried to use MailSmith as an Entourage replacement for about an hour this evening. It's very cool, I love the scriptability, the powerful text editing and the lightweight - but I've thrown it away already. Entourage (despite all it's failings, like the inability to export, to sync with Palm etc) is still the best mail app I've ever used. In case you're wondering, I'm not an M$ sympathiser (I'm using OSX for f'ks sake) but it is good. Here's why I can't live without Entourage anymore: Received since launch view - this is awesome. It shows me every mail that I have received since I started Entourage in one place (sorted by date received of course). When everyone filters their mail into a million separate folders, viewing incoming emails is a complete pain in the ass. The inbox is now useless (as it only contains spam) and you need to click around to view new mail. With this view created I can quickly overview all incoming mail as it arrives. Slick. I never knew how much I missed this feature until I didn't have it for an hour. Flagged mail - I like to click the 'Flag' button and flag mails to return to later. Then I have a view setup to view different types of flagged mails. For example, mail in the Atlassian folder receives greater answering priority that the rebelutionary folder - sorry guys. I thought Labels in MailSmith might do this, but then I still need to click around the folders in the query results window to view mails. Clickable URLs - Why oh why aren't URLs in MailSmith clickable? Surely this is a basic tenet of any mail program today! (No, command-click doesn't count - it requires two hands) No HTML mail - Actually, this isn't such a big deal (the text rendered view usually looks ok) but there should be a single button to click to open mail in the browser (it's 3 clicks at the moment by my count). The "fuck me" interface - As a good designer friend of mine always says, successful applications have "fuck me" graphics. I like the configurability of MailSmith (deeply integrated scripting is very cool) but it's just... boring looking? 7:23:44 PM  comment []      Yet another guru arrives in the blogsphere. Graham Glass (of "TME" and Glue fame) has a new blog. Not much there yet, but we're all hoping he will catch the blogging 'bug' and start dumping some genius thoughts on the world. 5:50:29 PM  comment []      JBoss has Top 10 reasons to pay $90k for your next app server. Laugh a little, then get scared - and then send this to every CIO you know. Any server that's over $2k is going to be crap. I'm not sure why, it just always works out that way. Call it Mike's Law of App Servers. 9:19:36 AM  comment []      I found a really great Java newsletter today - the Java Specialists' Newsletter. It's not the usual ad-filled drivel that most of the Java content sites put out, this one actually has really useful looking articles on quite advanced topics. Check it out. 12:13:09 AM  comment []