The book got me thinking about two great big important complicated issues: the future of the JVM, and the right way to build Web applications but each of those deserves its own essay.
Still, it’s a solid piece of work see also over at . I hear loud complaints about every GUI-builder somewhat fewer about those in OS X anyhow, as far as I know none of the beyond-Java alternatives are rich-user-interface champs. I also disagree with Tate’s argument that Swing and SWT are useless, part of the problem not the solution. In other gripes, the book’s structure is a little messy, and the kayaking anecdotes that introduce each chapter could have been dropped without loss of value. It argues interestingly by looking back at the history of Java’s explosive rise from nowhere to world domination but at the end of the day I’m not sure the historical analogies are useful. Beyond Java assembles a lot of this testimony, claims that we’re at an inflection point, and goes on to speculate about what comes next.The premise of the book is really nothing new: There are a lot of problems out there for which smart, senior people are reporting that there are languages and/or frameworks that produce solutions quicker and better than Java. I think that the senior people in the Java groups at Sun, and all the other Java powers, should read and think about it (and for that matter the CLR people over at Microsoft). I just got around to reading Bruce Tate’s Beyond Java.Notes on the Santa Clara Convention Center/Westin Santa ClaraĪll content written by Tim Bray Copyright Tim Bray, some rights reserved, see /ongoing/misc/Copyright Upgrade Instructions Considered NecessaryĪnt: A Case Study in How Not To Write An Error Message Makes language and children of item optionalĪdds source, enclosure, category, and cloud elementsĮxplicitly allows escaped HTML in description element but doesn't identify itĬVS Tip 1: Checking out an Entire Sourceforge Project Read the rest in Don’t Invent XML LanguagesĮasy to cut apart and combine automatically And for a data format that didn’t exist a year ago, there’s a whole great big butt-load of software that understands it. Suppose the things in the list ought to have human-readable labels and have to carry a timestamp and might be re-aggregated into other lists. Suppose you think of your data as a list of, well, anything: stock prices or workflow steps or cake ingredients or sports statistics. It’s hobbled by poor implementations too but can you reallyīlame the poor implementers when the spec writers could neverĮxplain exactly what they meant? Proof of this is just how Poorly thought out, poorly designed, and poorly explained. I remain convinced that the whole CSS layout mess was Wouldn’t be real unit tests but they might be useful as sort Test suite that could be run against any Java program. Lately I’ve been thinking about a generic JUnit The way to look at a few Carrion Crows in a local park. The Escaliers du Marché to the Cathédrale Notre-Dame, stopping along Wednesday we took a day trip to Lausanne. Beth and I arrived in Geneva late Tuesday night on To iterate through the sites table in the database and print each The first thing I need is something simple. That took almost a full day.) so let’s see if we can build Rails seems to be installed and working (Finally. I’ve never even really thought of Cafe au. Syndication: RSS, ATOM, OPML, and All That Elliotte Rusty Harold Tuesday, Febru Syndication: RSS, ATOM, APP, and All That Syndication: RSS, ATOM, APP, and All That
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