Lasse's OLD weblogBlurts on Java and Software EngineeringA guy named Java- February 28, 2004 Hehe. This is so funny that I have to mention it... The day before, I briefly met a guy who's name was in fact "Java". Yes, that was the whole blog entry. No, I haven't hidden anything into HTML comments either. Go away ;)http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/a_guy_named_java Presentation: Eclipse Rich Client Platform- February 27, 2004 I just thought I should publicize that there's a very nice presentation of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. You can pick it up from http:www.eclipsecon.orgpresentations.htm.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/presentation_eclipse_rich_client_platform properties.xml- February 27, 2004 Thanks to the latest IBM developerWorks newsletter, I learned that Tiger (JDK 1.5) introduces the possibility to use XML files instead of (or in addition to, of course) the good old .properties. Nice. That's about it, really. Nice, but not useful enough to cause me going bananas and coding something, anything with the newly found toy. What I would've liked more would've been an extension to java.util.Properties -- something I call "property groups". Here's some "client" code for explaining what.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/properties_xml We only react on extremes- February 24, 2004 I just checked what the guys at TSS are up to, and found an interesting (from an amateur-psychological perspective) discussion about an article-ish blog entry by Dave Astels. The thing that interests me about this article and the discussion at TSS is how obvious it has become that you don't get attention unless you get that adrenaline going -- usually by making extreme claims such as "you should never wear shades of gray if you want to be productive". I'm not trying to discredit any specific.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/we_only_react_on_extremes Extreme Programming in BusinessWeek.com- February 24, 2004 It's always nice to see some light in the end of the tunnel when it comes to management awareness. Now if we could only get top management to read some literature from this century (actually, the past century would be an improvement as well:)...http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/extreme_programming_in_businessweek_com The price tag on a computer book- February 21, 2004 One of the two bookstores with any kind of selection in computer books had a sale today and I happened to pop in. I ended up buying two books (one on Jini and one on effective use cases) for 35 EUR, less than 50% of the books' list prices. This whole deal reminded me of something. I still have difficulty in believing my eyes sometimes when I browse the bookshelfs at local bookstores. For example, some two months ago Richard Monson-Haefel's J2EE Web Services was listed at approximately 80 EUR.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/the_price_tag_on_a Pool- February 21, 2004 The day before yesterday, I went to play pool with an old friend of mine. We do that every now and then -- not often enough, though. Anyway, after getting wiped 5-3 in 9-ball by my friend, his father and his friend joined us at the table and we switched to 2-vs-2. My friend's father has played all sorts of billiard for some 30+ years. He won the first game with a single shot and didn't give us too many turns after that... The rest of us didn't get a lot of time on the table but it sure was...http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/pool Book review: Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere- February 21, 2004 My review of Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere, 2nd Edition has been published at the bunkhouse and the book review forum.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/book_review_enterprise_java_programming Who's calling- February 20, 2004 I bumped into a thread at JavaRanch in which someone mentioned parsing the calling class' name from an exception stack trace. I remember someone on my blogroll had blogged about just that a few weeks earlier, but since Bloglines.com was down and I felt like playing around with IDEA, I decided to write my own implementation. Sorry. Of course, right after having finished coding, I went through the top candidates of who I thought could've been The One and finally figured out it was Cameron (with a.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/who_s_calling Bloglines.com crashed, plumber to the rescue- February 20, 2004 Bloglines.com had a database crash just some hours ago. It wasn't a big deal for me -- who cares if an aggregator site is down for a few hours on a friday, right Anyway, it became even less big a deal because of the absolutely hilarious out of order page :)http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/bloglines_com_crashed_plumber_to |