New Weblog- December 9, 2004 My weblog has moved. You may now find it here at netzooid.com. The new feed.http://envoisolutions.com/people/dan/archives/000088.html Open Xource Antipatterns- December 7, 2004 OpenXource has rcently opened its doors (virtually). It is the creation of Bob McWhirter of The Codehaus fame. They provide "opensource strategy consultation and assistance with fostering communities around client's commercial offerings." Their Crossings articles are a great analysis whats right and wrong with companies in the world of open source. My favorites are the anti-patterns. For instance, the Ignore Established Tools pattern (a.k.a. "That's not how we do it around here."): A...http://envoisolutions.com/people/dan/archives/000087.html Tune Tag Fixes- December 6, 2004 There is now a new Tune Tag update which actually works since Amazon broke things when they changed their schema. Download here. For those who don't know what Tune Tag is: Tune Tag is a Windows iTunes add-on which can: Download artwork for you automatically from amazon. Link you directly to amazon.com for the album of the curreont song on (even those on internet radio!) Allow you to tag songs (particularly those on...http://envoisolutions.com/people/dan/archives/000085.html Delegates in Java- December 6, 2004 I've been using C to do various things (like Tune Tag - due for an update) and I really like the language features that it offers. One of the ones I miss most in java is delegates. Delegates make it easy to listen for events. Instead of having to implement an interface, I can just add my method which listens for the event to the delegate. An example: public delegate void Logger(string msg); public void addDelegate() FigureHandler += this.myLoggerMethod; public void...http://envoisolutions.com/people/dan/archives/000084.html |