Lasse's OLD weblogBlurts on Java and Software EngineeringA typical blogger's apology- March 30, 2004 I apologize if I have wasted numerous minutes of your valuable time over the past few weeks, posting almost nil content. I've been very busy at work, which sometimes shows in my private time via a temporary lack of interest to do anything even remotely work-related. In addition, I've been spending quite a lot of time learning Jini and writing a related article about it (to be published soon in the JavaRanch Journal, if all goes well). Oh, and if my apology actually meant something to you,...http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/a_typical_blogger_s_apology A little surprise regarding Groovy's JSR review ballot- March 30, 2004 IBM didn't post their usual multi-paragraph comment warning about the apocalypse coming :) Seriously, congratulations to the Groovy guys! (again)http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/a_little_surprise_regarding_groovy Project Crystal Ba... Sorry... Looking Glass- March 29, 2004 At the risk of sounding like an amplifier for JavaBlogs.com, I must say that Sun's Project Looking Glass might have potential. I heard about the project some time ago but never really got to actually check it out. Now that I did, I'm impressed. I hope it turns out as good as it looks. Obviously there's not that much value in hiding application windows by rotating them (I wonder how much crap they're gonna get about the associated mouse gestures...) but extending the concept of a desktop into...http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/project_crystal_ba_sorry_looking Have you read LSD- March 28, 2004 It just dawned on me that the title of Poppendiecks' Lean Software Development form the acronym "LSD" :) I had trouble keeping a straight face in the tram 15 mins ago when I had this revelation... Sorry for the pointless interruption. Please continue your regularly scheduled duties.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/have_you_read_lsd FishEye looking good, but so is Confluence- March 25, 2004 If there's anything you can be sure about in the computing world, it's The Cortex producing yet another beautiful product for a software developer. In fact, Atlassian's Confluence ain't looking bad either. Take a look at the live guinea pigs at Codehaus and ThoughtWorks.http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/fisheye_looking_good_but_so Humour: Microsoft slaves- March 24, 2004 Thanks, Cameron, for making me smile :)http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/humour_microsoft_slaves Too simple scripting languages- March 22, 2004 I've wondered one thing for a long time already: what's so wonderful in using a scripting language that doesn't have curly braces, a.k.a. squiggly brackets JythonPython, RubyJRuby, JaclTcl, Smalltalk (yes, not exactly "just" a scripting language but still...) all seem to favor a minimally verbose syntax with as little characters as possible to type. I've always felt this is too simple because, to me, the lack of curly brackets and even "pointers" (".", "-", ":" or whatever your favorite...http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/too_simple_scripting_languages JavaRanch won a Jolt Productivity Award!- March 18, 2004 Yes, you heard me. JavaRanch.com continues picking up prizes from the annual Jolts. The other two Productivity Award winners in the Websites and Developer Networks category were the O'Reilly Network and Tigris.org. The Excellence Award went to IBM developerWorks this time, which is without a doubt a great resource. Congratulations!http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/javaranch_won_a_jolt_productivity Lean Six Sigma and competing Spikes in XP- March 17, 2004 A quote from Poppendiecks' article Why the Lean in Lean Six Sigma: Toyota has a different approach, one that is much faster and delivers products of superior quality that consistently outsell the competition. Toyota builds sets of possibilities to satisfy customer needs and then, through a series of combining and narrowing, the new product emerges. The combining and narrowing process is paced by timeboxed milestones that define stages of the narrowing process. Milestones are always met,...http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/p_a_quote_from_poppendiecks One Groovy JSR- March 16, 2004 What do I hear Groovy has a JSR I think it's great to have yet another "grassroots" project make its way to becoming a JSR and, hopefully, be included into the standard J2SE platform one day. I do wish they would've refrained from describing Groovy as an agile, dynamic programming language. What's so agile about Groovy Nothing, except that you can get certain types of work done faster compared to writing strongly typed Java code. Anyway, congratulations to James and the Gang!http://www.jroller.com/lasse/entry/one_groovy_jsr |