java.net Weblogs by Daniel H. SteinbergWeblogs by Daniel H. Steinberg from Java.netGarbage Collection- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Do you ever miss the bulldozer You remember, in the early days, when it was time for garbage collection in a Java application everything would stop. To call out this advanced feature and to entertain you, you would see an animation of a bulldozer in action.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/720 Nothing but Java- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Since before java.net launched in June (before it was called java.net) we had this notion that the content would not need to be restricted to Java-centric topics but should be of interest to Java developers. There may be Perl or Python related content that might interest you.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/699 Deadlines- July 2, 2008 It doesn't seem as if more than a month has passed since we first told you the JavaOne submissions deadline was November 21. But that day has come and many of us will be flooding the server with submissions and requests for team passwords and logins we have forgotten.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/689 Securing the Wire- July 2, 2008 I received an email the other day informing me that my credit card had been improperly billed and that if I wanted it rectified all I had to do was reply providing them with my credit card number and expiration date.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/687 The Importance of Individuals- July 2, 2008 The JCP now has approximately the same number of individual members as corporate members (commercial entities and educationalnon-profit organizations). How will the increasing number of individual members effect the nature of this organizationhttp://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/683 Partial Eclipse- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Yesterday Sun announced that they would not be joining the Eclipse project. At least not now.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/751 Dynamic Magic- (Found July 2, 2008 ) Imagine adding methods and variables to objects at runtime. Seems odd - how do other objects know what methods they can call. Seems scary. Seems kind of cool.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/756 Going Native- (Found July 2, 2008 ) When you double-click an application, how do you know that it has been written in Java Is it important that you knowhttp://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/772 Have developers "forgotten their place"- (Found July 2, 2008 ) I don't know why the talkback to Kathy Sierra's blog upset me so much. She wrote a well reasoned piece on developercustomer interaction and JBob's response is that it "Sounds like developers have forgotten their place."http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/850 Open Source Developer Myths- (Found July 2, 2008 ) If you write it, they will come. This is the first of many myths that chromatic explores in his look at assumptions that open source developers work under.http://weblogs.java.net/pub/wlg/846 |