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So, Neal posts this to the Javalobby Forums. Yay, if you send a mail, and sign an NDA, you can get early access to JDK1.5. Just say “Neal sent you”. It then headlines in the Javalobby Newsletter. And then we all crashed poor Ms Yao’s inbox. Plus I can’t imagine how many email harvesters will now capture Ingrid’s [...]

I’ve been having a lot of success with Hibernate lately. Which is not to say I don’t mind writing SQL, but I do mind managing parent/child links in databases. But persistence still totally sucks. The only reason I’m trying to shoe-horn all my objects into a RDBMS is so I can report on the data. I remember reading this [...]

This is attempt to document the syntax available in the current JDK1.5 early access compiler (2_2-ea). The exact syntax is interesting to certain groups of people (IDE writers, Java language tool producers, emacs/jedit-mode authors, etc.). Having access to the syntax is useful so these groups can start implementing Java language tools before the JDK 1.5 betas start arriving.

It ends tonight. It ends tonight. See this Slashdot article for trailer downloads (or thematrix.com). I love these movies.

I updated my Cygiwn installation last night and noticed that I now have gcj, the “ahead-of-time compiler for the Java language”.

To start with, Thunderbird/Mozilla is pretty cool because it really understands the text/plain; format=flowed content type. This means that you type paragraphs as one big line but the email gets sent with paragraphs wrapped at (something like) 72 characters. And then when you view it again, the line wrapping gets removed and paragraphs flow depending on the size of the [...]

I discovered catalogs.google.com. It looks like Google have scanned in, OCR-ed, then indexed whole stacks of printed product catalogs. For example, a search for CPU cooler produces little JPEG extracts from printed catalogs, with the search terms highlighted in the JPEG I don’t think I will ever ceased to be amazed, pleased, and tickled-pink about the good things Google do. Google are even [...]

I replied to a post on the CJUG mailing list today. Ching was asking whether he should be bothered to get any of the Sun Java certifications. My comments:

This is a picture of my cat.

Okay. After about 10 years of using email I’m officially over it. It’s not that I don’t want to send emails; I do. And it’s not that I don’t want to read your emails, I do. Its just that, well, I’m over getting it, and I’m over storing it. I don’t know; somehow my requirements for receiving and storing [...]