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Weblogs by Daniel H. Steinberg from Java.net

If you act now - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Bill Joy says, "If I were to propose one thing that we as the human race need to do, I'd say we can't let the future just happen anymore."
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/536

Figuring out what went wrong - (Found July 2, 2008 )

All of a sudden it seems as if everyone is talking about exceptions. Recent featured articles on java.net have recommended everything from using them in a fine grained way to turning to a scripting language when you just need to get something done and don't want to worry about types or exceptions.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/543

Seeking grand challenges - (Found July 2, 2008 )

How do you go about finding a grand challenge The problem has to be worth solving and, to be grand, should require significant effort with a hope of being solved.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/545

Autoboxing - imagining the spec - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The java.net bloggers are at it again. This time the topic is autoboxing and there's a twist - we only kind of know what we're talking about.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/463

Sockets and Airplanes - (Found July 2, 2008 )

The Peer-to-Peer Sockets Project has a vision of "returning the end-to-end principle to the Internet. The vision includes a P2P DNS server known as DisDNS which their wiki page describes as "a distributed, secure, human-friendly Domain Name System."
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/460

Maven and Ant - (Found July 2, 2008 )

When Ant was created there was a particular itch being scratched. The traditional make didn't seem to fit the requirements of a Java based project. Ant was a small utility that was quickly adopted by Java developers.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/458

Reducing Spam - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Last night I cleared my email at around midnight. This morning at six I logged on and downloaded 97 messaged, 85 of which were correctly identified as spam and transferred to my junk mailbox. Nine more in my inbox were unidentified spam. Leaving three legitimate messages.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/413

Head First Preschool - (Found July 2, 2008 )

Last week I received quite a bit of feedback from those who plan to successfully apply the lessons from my eldest daughter's second grade experience to their work. Today my youngest daughter returns to preschool and there are valuable lessons to be learned from her Montessori setting.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/415

Uncle Bob on going meta - (Found July 2, 2008 )

It is natural to want to proceed from the concrete to abstractions. You want to make general statements about the world around you based on your observations. You do, however, need to keep in mind that your generalizations are based on a finite set of data points. As you continue to observe the world you have to note the cases that don't fit your model and ask whether you need to reexamine your model.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/420

Changing Browsers - (Found July 2, 2008 )

We referenced the W3C patent article yesterday in a featured story and now today in a news item. The document begins a discussion of possible effects of the Eolas v. Microsoft case.
http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/425