Matt Croydon::Postneo

Day: December 12, 2002

  • Weblogs

    Here are some new blogs that I’ll be keeping track of:

    I stumbled upon all three in my referral logs today.  Also, Patrick pointed to Scorched3D, a remake of one of my favorite VGA games from back in the day.

  • Trellix.ToInterland();

    Dan Bricklin:

    This afternoon, Interland announced that they have signed a deal to acquire Trellix Corporation, the company that I founded.

    Good, Dan.  I think I know more people that are not happy with Interland than are.  Hopefully Trellix won’t suffer.

  • Moore’s Law

    Slashdot mentions that Moore’s Law has reached its limit.  You know what that means, right?  It’s time for another breakthrough in chip design.  A big one.  I can’t wait.

  • Learning to Program Computers

    Matt Kennedy unleashes his essay: Learning to Program Computers:

    The most difficult part of becoming a computer programmer is truly understanding what it means to “program a computer.” It’s possible to span an entire career in the industry without achieving this knowledge, but for those who do, it can often differentiate them from their peers.

    Go read it.  Math, logic, learning.

  • Novell UDDI?

    Infoworld:

    HOPING TO KICK-START adoption of the emerging UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) Web services specification, Novell on Wednesday introduced a UDDI server based on its eDirectory software. The offering is designed to add security and identity management capabilities to UDDI.

  • Just Say No

    Dave Johnson reminds us to just say no to System.out.println.  From the Websphere best practices white paper:

    Because System.out.println statements and similar constructs synchronize processing for the duration of disk I/O, they can significantly slow throughput.

    Yikes.  I didn’t know that either.

  • Eclipse-HOWTO

    Scott Storkel at OnJava has an intro to Eclipse:

    Eclipse also includes a number of unique features such as code refactoring, automatic code updates/installs (via the Update Manager), a task list, support for unit testing with JUnit, and integration with the Jakarta Ant build tool.

  • Web Design

    Ingo Rammer is looking for a web designer.

  • Blogger API 2.0

    Things are starting to pick up on the bloggerDev list.  The new API is being refined.  I posted to it this afternoon trying to justify (in my mind at least) the version change to 2.0.

    A major release (2.x.x), IMHO, is justified when either (or both):

    • Major revisions are made to the codebase or interface
    • Backwards compatability is broken

    Also, it’s okay to break backwards compatabiity every once in awhile.  Otherwise we’d spend too much time supporting the 1.0 release than implementing new features.  It does look like Steve is going to do his best to keep backwards compatibility with the Blogger API (1.0), tho it will definately be considered deprecated when the 2.0 API is finalized..