Tag: ancient
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Re: Java I/O Sucks Goat Ass
Several folks seem to be on the Sucks-Goat-Ass Bandwagon: Kasia Trapszo with a nice comments thread going. Jermy Zawodny, indirectly through the above; also with comments. There’s a good reply that I/O isn’t so bad. Russell Beattie, as cited by Senior Doozer Goat Ass Sucking JSR pending…
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Yeti the Dog Miscellany
I’m sure all of you are thinking, “JavaOne, yeah, yeah, but what about that damn fine lookin’ dog of yours?” Well, thanks to the wonders of e-mail (have you heard of it?), I have these updates from the lovely Kim Skotak: Yeti likes peanut butter. He likes apple slices. He likes peanut butter on apple…
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JavaOne: JXTA
Project JXTA: Open P2P Architecture Platform (TS-2915), Tuesday As I said earlier, JXTA has been the most interesting thing so far. The Tuesday session was presented by Bernard Traversat; I believe he’s the JXTA bigwig at Sun. As a pronunciation note, everyone seems to say “Jux-tah,” not “J-X-T-A.” What is JXTA? In short, JXTA is…
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Lost Baggage
Here’s a little “trip tip” for you: don’t put your keys in luggage you check. It seems like a good idea, of course. But the key assumption that your baggage will arrive home at the same time you will — instead of 9 hours later…you know, around 2:30AM — may not pan out. In short:…
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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