Archive for September, 2004
Saturday, September 11th, 2004
Email, blogs, instant messaging... I don't have enough willpower to turn them off, or to ignore them if they're turned on. "I'll only check mail at the top of the hour," I tell myself, but then I hit a bug, or a compile takes more than ten seconds, or ...
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Saturday, September 11th, 2004
No, but it isn't healthy, and I see no signs of the situation improving. For those who haven't heard of it, Groovy is a scripting language designed to run on the JVM. It has (or had---see below) a Java-like syntax, but is freely typed liked Lisp, Perl, and ...
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Thursday, September 9th, 2004
I don't often quote Ronald Reagan, but in this case, he's quoting an old Russian proverb, so I guess it's OK. Doveryay, no proveryay: trust, but verify. We're running a training session for the incoming Hippo students on Saturday. Two of the outgoing students spent some time ...
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
I gave notice at Hewlett-Packard last Friday; I've enjoyed working with the Select Access team a lot over the past four years, and have learned a tremendous amount from them, it's time for me to focus on a few personal projects (including Hippo---I really would like to learn how it ...
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Monday, September 6th, 2004
Years ago, I was putting together a pine futon frame I'd purchased from Ikea. It was a pretty simple thing---just four uprights and some crosspieces. The whole thing was held together by eight bolts hidden in pre-drilled recesses.
The first seven bolts went in easily, but the eighth bolt ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Godfrey Nolan: Decompiling Java. APress, 2004, 1590592654, 264 pages.
I was excited when
I read the description of this book on APress's site, since
decompilation is one of those subjects (like debugging and linking)
that has been crying out for a good book for years. Unfortunately,
this book isn't good: it rambles, it ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
John Goerzen: Foundations of Python Network Programming. APress, 1590593715, 512 pages.
Goerzen's Foundations of Python Network Programming
looks at how to
handle several common protocols, including HTTP, SMTP, and FTP.
Goerzen doesn't delve as deeply into how servers work,
concentrating instead on how to build clients that use these
protocols.
Throughout,
Goerzen builds solutions to complex problems ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Budi Kurniawan and Paul Deck: How Tomcat Works. BrainySoftware.com, 2004, 097521280X, 450 pages.
Kurniawan and Deck's How Tomcat Works is a narrower
book than some, but
seems to be driven by the universal need to make sense of things. The book
delivers exactly what its title promises: a detailed, step-by-step
explanatio of how ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Joel Spolsky: Joel on Software. APress, 2004, 1590593898, 362
pages.
Joel Spolsky's Joel on Software
collects some of the witty, insightful articles he has written over
the past four years. If you're a developer, Spolsky's weblog is a
must-read: his observations on hiring programmers, measuring how well
a dev team is doing its job, ...
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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland: Better, Faster, Lighter Java. O'Reilly & Associates, 2004, 0596006764, 243 pages.
I sometimes think that Ecclesiastes must have been a programmer. "The
thing that hath been, it is that which shall be...and there is no new
thing under the sun." I don't know about you, ...
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