Thursday, October 3, 2002

More Typos. My most common mistake in Java is typing StringBugger. The F and G are right next to each other. [Joe's Jelly] I find I rarely make mistakes like that while coding Java—I use autocomplete for anything longer than three characters anyway. On the other hand, when pair-programming on a Java 1.1 project, and I was dictating code for my pair to type, I used to say things like “enumeration dot nextElephant”to see whether I could get him to type it by mistake. [The Desktop Fishbowl] As silly as it is, my most common typo is pythong... 11:45:03 PM

To HEAD or not to HEAD?. Ant 1.5.1 Released!. It doesn't appear like there are too many changes, but there's a new version nevertheless. As most of you open source developers know, it's much easier to keep up with the lastest version (or nightly builds) than to try to migrate when a new version comes out. If you don't, you mind end up with a XDoclet nightmare similar to the one I'm having with Roller. [We Build Web Apps] Raible brings up an interesting point here - I actually disagree. I used to be a CVS HEAD junkie, but lately I've started to realise that perhaps it is more productive to keep up with Open Source projects each time they release (take half a day to upgrade as needed). The alternative (living on the bleeding edge) often leaves you scratching your head, reading CVS commits etc - which can be very unpleasant after a while. YMMV [rebelutionary] I think it truly depends on what you are using the software for. If you are just doing things on your own then keeping up with the daily commits is generally fine. Before I got this iBook, I had one laptop using the CVS HEAD of GNOME and another using snapshots from Ximian. Sure, there were problems but generally they only lasted a day or even less if I updated CVS. On the other hand, using the HEAD in production code leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. We are currently doing that for a couple things at work and it hasn't been easy. One of the apps using HEAD is Subversion which is somewhat understandable since they aren't at 1.0 yet. Perhaps our use of HEAD will change once they hit that.. 11:41:01 PM

Yummy, Python and Cocoa.. Something I'll definitely be checking out. 5:25:50 PM

E-Mail Hits Snail-Mail Pace. Uh-oh, there's trouble at UUNet, the super-network that handles about half of all Internet traffic in the world. If your e-mail is slow on Thursday, that's why. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] this is killing me right now.. 4:15:01 PM

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