Marc, himself, his blogs, and you reading them...the eternal try-out.java.lang. and knowledge radius- October 15, 2003 Today one of the java.lang. secrets disclosed itself to me (through a willing hand from the maven user list) Runtime version inspection of packages (provided you have decent manifest.mf files, and do use maven if you don't) http:java.sun.comproductsjdk1.2docsguideversioningspecVersioningSpecification.htmlPackageVersioning http:java.sun.comj2se1.4.1docsapijavalangPackage.html The more you investigate, the more you learn that there is soooo much more to learn... specially about the stuff you...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/2003/10/15.html#a146 Maven - http:maven.apache.org- October 15, 2003 Being the local ant-hardcore peep in the company it's probably not the most logical statement to make... "maven rocks" Ok, they have some bugs still (and I have to admit I'm comming accross a number of them rather fast, at least faster then expected for something that is said to be quite widely used) but it largely "Just Works(tm)" and it really releaves a lot of the classical 'have to reinvent wheel' stuff I've been seeing at a lot of places. The list of offered plugins is really...http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/2003/10/15.html#a145 Joel on unicode and char encodings- October 15, 2003 The option is yours: "Read it, or start practicing on those submarine-onions..."http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/2003/10/15.html#a144 Relax and enjoy...- October 7, 2003 Sigh, gettogether stress... not too much visible I hope, but while things are slowly reaching the end I can't help feeling how some 'relax' is finally getting to me... sitting next to lenya-miki, exchanging kids-snapshots actually :-) now for really relaxing: I spotted a new wine-bar arround the corner here, looks like a possible escape (and refill-spot) to really chill down with the hard core after the diner here. I do hope to end up at a lonely table with some yanks and aussies again.....http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/2003/10/07.html#a143 Countdown started.- October 6, 2003 Thx to Jeremy popping in before breakfast we have the wifi set up and are ready to roll. Room is filling up with new faces to the known names... Here goes, let's dig this.http://radio.weblogs.com/0116284/2003/10/06.html#a142 |