doesn’t think JDK1.5 is so scary. Maybe he’s right, but…
Monthly Archives: June 2003
You know you’re a nerd when….
June 16, 2003 – 4:39 pm
You know you’re a nerd when you use vi/perl substitution commands to fix your spelling mistakes in an instant-messenger chat:
Real Life Redux: I blog therefore I catch-up-with-friends?
June 16, 2003 – 3:09 pm
I got an email JohnnyL, an old work-mate, today: Hi Matt, how are you? I read your blog every now and then so live in a vague state of thinking that I talk to you more often than I do LOL. This kinda works in reverse. Upon occasion, I’ve had to stop myself from saying [...]
I haven’t typed an import statement in over a year
June 16, 2003 – 11:49 am
I’m reading The Pragmatic Programmer at the moment. Chapter 3 has a section about using power-editors; it has an example showing how easy it is to sort lines of the import section of a Java file in Emacs or vi. Reading that felt strange. I remember doing the same thing in Emacs before, but I [...]
Fw: .Net is I.T. ‘asbestos’, and Enterprise software on a PC is a “known bad thing”
June 6, 2003 – 9:43 pm
via CNET, via Jim Fenner. Mostly just FUD, but this time spread by PeopleSoft and not Microsoft. But still, couldn’t pass up some good Microsoft bashing.
wx4j: Finally, a wxWindows wrapper for Java
June 6, 2003 – 8:39 am
http://www.wx4j.org/ (via here) In the back of my mind, I’ve had a pet-project to write a Java wrapper for wxWindows, because wxWindows is pretty cool. But (thankfully) Dave Dribin has beaten me to it.
Another new Java language feature in Tiger… varags!
June 5, 2003 – 5:39 pm
There is yet another new Java language feature, that is neither JSRs 14 nor 201.
Python is slithering onto my radar, again
June 4, 2003 – 11:50 am
I’ve written maybe 10 “real” Python programs. Not “real-world” in the sense that they were used in commercial applications, but “real” in the sense that they were completed programs, often “glue” programs, that solved a real problem (often just a problem for me or my work mates). That probably includes about 2 or 3 Jython [...]
Java becoming a LanguageForSmartPeople, not a LanguageForTheMasses?
June 3, 2003 – 8:29 pm
I’m in the processes of wading through the language changes in the new JDK 1.5 early access compiler. I’ve always enjoyed a reputation as a language lawyer, so I probably have a brain that is geared towards understanding new syntaxes and languages. In fact, I’m really interested in what are often considered “hard” languages, like [...]
