Ok, so I just announced the my new google code project, and I’m checking in the 0.00000002 alpha version of the code. And this is a media app, so I’ve got some test data, some mp3s. And I didn’t think before I committed, and low and behold subclipse is chugging away in it’s customary slow [...]
Amazon is the best place to buy books, cds, electronics and other memorabilia. But what happens if you want your hands in all the pies? After a sloppy launch of Kindle 1, a year ago, Amazon released Kindle 2, hoping that it would be the next best thing, something of a revolutionary device like IPhone. [...]
I haven’t posted in about 8 years or something like that. Besides being lazy and uninspired, I really haven’t learned anything new or exciting in the past 2 years. I have nothing to share that would be beneficial to all of you. However, some of you may benefit from what I have learned NOT to [...]
So, I was driving on I99, towards San Francisco, two hours away from the airport. I opened the browser on my iPhone. Hotels.com has an iPhone interface. Sweet. It was 9:50pm, I searched for hotels near the SF airport area for the same day. I got 6 results. Now for some reason, the radio was [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Class Formatter public interface Formatter <t extends Foo> { public List<list<string>> format(List<t> foos); } Class FooFormatter implements Formatter and is strongly typed public class FooFormatter<foo> implements Formatter { public List<list<string>> format(List<foo> beans) { return null; } } When you compile the above (or see the red marks in your IDE), you get the following compiler [...]
Eclipse Ganymede (3.4) was released yesterday and I had a first look at it by configuring both the versions — jee & java. Here are my first impressions and review after migrating my 3.3 workspace of projects into the new one: – Reduced memory foot print? No. Reduced distribution size? No. Java distro is 123MB [...]
[Update: 2 hours, something]. Look’s like the folks at Amazon, finally brought back the site again. Here’s a report at Wired [Update: 1 hours 30 minutes] Ok, they added a nicer error message. But click on the link, it gives back the same Http/1.1 Service Unavailable message back! What’s worst is — It does actually [...]
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Are you tired of being called a Java Developer or a J2EE Developer? Strange, how buzzwords end up becoming an essential noun in your technical life. J2EE, a.k.a Java “2″ Enterprise Environment has already become obsolete and the newer version 5.0 has grown increasingly popular in the last couple of years. However, the term J2EE [...]
James Turner just published a thought provoking article on oreillynet, The Worthlessness of Code: The cold reality that software companies try to ignore is that ANY major piece of software needs to be rewritten from the ground up eventually. They age, get bit-rotted, are obsoleted by new technology and generally become less and less supportable. [...]
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
LIB is LIHB, not LIBE! Do you put your executables in the BINE directory or program logs in the VAIR directory?!!! I rest my case.