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Wednesday, 28 August 2002

Rick writes more about JCS. OK, so I read the docs. It looks seriously cool. The best part is it looks like I can centralise my caching between web tier and 'backend tier' (however you implement it) so that my refresh policies update across the tiers. Very cool. We're going to try to work this into JIRA 1.5 or 2.0. I also like the disk spillover option. RMI/distributed caching seems to require a lot of setup though. 10:41:05 AM  comment []      Apple's OSX Tech Talk - The Quartz Extreme demo. Transparent terminal window overlapping with a semi-transparent animated 3d demo, over a running QuickTime video. Composite that, inferior operating systems! That sounds geeky but fucking cool. Hardware accelerated OS GUI is very slick. 10:29:47 AM  comment []      Rick Salsa asks What the heck is .NET? and moreover, what does it have that J2EE doesn't? The thing that impressed me most was the HTML GUI component stuff. The fact that a select box automatically used DHTML/HTML/Winforms depending on where it was accessed is _very_ cool. [Rick Salsa] 10:27:25 AM  comment []      hahahahahaha [The FuzzyBlog2: user blogs] 10:25:54 AM  comment []      Bob is talking about Scrum a less frightening alternative to XP. Interesting. 9:46:34 AM  comment []      Omniscient Debugging: "Because the debugger knows everything" This is a very interesting project, and a very original debugger. The best explanation comes from the web page: The debugger works by collecting "time stamps" which record everything that happens in a program. A GUI then allows the you to navigate backwards in time to look at objects, variables, method calls, etc. This means that you can see which values are bad, then find where those values came from, who set them and why. This also means that there are no non-deterministic problems. You don't have to guess where the problems might be, you don't have to set breakpoints, you don't have to wonder which threads ran when, you don't ever have to repeat a program run. This is the debugger that you always dreamed about, but never thought was possible. It sounds like someone mixed AOP with a debugger, to give you Tivo style debugging - wicked! 9:05:58 AM  comment []