Joke of the week- October 17, 2003 WinFS "uses NTFS," Bob Muglia, senior vice president of Microsoft's enterprise storage and enterprise management divisions, told CNET News.com. "We built on top. NTFS does what it does incredibly well." LOL Found at cnet I can't believe that they really believe that NTFS does it's job well. Some months ago I did some very simple tests using a Java programm that created and deleted a lot's of files (several hundreds to several thousands) in one directory, and NTFS didn't scale very...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/joke_of_the_week Mozilla Firebird 0.7 is out ...- October 15, 2003 .. and especially the "Bookmark all tabs in a folder" feature rocks !http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/mozilla_firebird_0_7_is javablogs really doesnt like me- October 10, 2003 I had several times problems, with javablogs.com not showing my posts. But now, even after fixing my rss page, I can't get it to show my post. The old trick of just updating the blog on javablogs also doesn't work anymore. Any help would be appreciatedhttp://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/javablogs_really_doesnt_like_me what's wrong with Ant (and Maven)- October 7, 2003 dehora analyzes,whats wrong with Ant. He's so right ! He also has an opinion about maven: Which leads us onto maven. The main objection to maven is that it's a patch around deficiencies in Ant. Every time I use maven it feels like theres something inherently wrong with it. It's building on the wrong kernel for the job, much like NT did with DOS, which has the effect of making it something of a stovepipe system. Despite the amount of effort that has gone into maven to help you with Ant..http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/what_s_wrong_with_ant SearchAssist is pretty cool- October 2, 2003 SearchAssist is pretty cool. Just read this article about SearchAssist. SearchAssist is neat little tool written in Java that adds a sidebar for searching bookmarks to Mozilla.Also the latest Mozilla seems to have something similar build in, SearchAssist retrieves the bookmarks from a webserver. It IMHO shows the potential of using Java applet technology and Mozilla's crossplatform XUL interface language. The funny thing was that I found my own page within the bookmarks of the...http://www.jroller.com/nil/entry/searchassist_is_pretty_cool |