All my blog posts and articles
Page 135 of 142 (2821 total posts)
Continuing my complaintsabout Java Web Start, as if the message displayed on Windows under Java 1.5 isn’t bad enough, here’s what a slightly older version of Java displays on Linux:  just click here.
I’ve written about this before, and after all it is fairly (no, very) esoteric. Java Web Start is Java’s approach to installation and distribution and updating of Java desktop applications. It’s a really nice idea but it just is too full of problems. With a small project like BlogBridge, I guess it saves us some work, and so we use it, warts and all. Anyway, here is a bit that I found that articulatesin great gory detail all the problems. I concur and I suffer with you.
Well we’ve been busy little beavers and are getting ready to release BlogBridge Beta 2. It has quite a few nifty new features! I will write a little more about it tomorrow or Monday. We’ve done a total overhaul of the content of the web site (the look/design is unchanged.) Take a look at our Brand New Web Site An important change in opening the kimono a bit more is that you will find a direct link from our web site to install and run the beta. You are of course invited to join the beta group, but if you just want to play, go for it. Click here to download and run BlogBridge.
Dave Winer comments on the sale of OddPost to Yahoo. I’ve been an avid OddPost fan for a while and I am glad to see them succeed. It’s an impressive tour the force, an existence proof that you can build quite a nice UI in a browser. One critical detail whic...
Read more →In tracking down a ‘bug’ in BlogBridge I discovered that my RSS feed for this blog has abbreviated items, that is, without html and limited to a certain number of words. That’s not what I wanted so with this new posting I should have full items. To test this, this line is bold - And this line is bulletted
Did you know that you (or your teenager) can buy cool new ring tones for their cell phone? They cost a buck or two and are quite the rage, especially in countries other than the US 🙂 You probably knew this. Did you know that this buck or two is actually only good for a month or two of use of the ri...
Read more →Someone whose oppinion I listen to, Karsten Lentzch, recommends these books about user interface design: [Jeff Johnson: GUI Bloopers: Don’ts and Do’s for Designers](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558605827/qid=1088740910/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-8578301-0353756?v=glance&s...
Read more →Java Web Start is a piece of Java platform that’s meant to ease the deployment and updating of Java applications. It’s a great idea, but disappointingly implemented. There were several JavaOne sessions about Web Start. There are some great enhancements coming in Java 5.0 (1.5) A semi-miraculous JA...
Read more →I had never heard him speak – He’s a lot of fun to listen to – funny and with a sense of his audience. This was a shorter keynote then yesterday. This wasn’t the kind of rah-rah motivational speech that I was expecting. He did drive home a few points, clearly showing what he was most interested ...
Read more →What’s going on with Java version numbers? There was Java 2 (where the version numbers were 1.3 and 1.4) and the Tiger release just coming out is 1.5. The release after Tiger is going to be called 5.0?! What is going on? Talk about sowing confusion. Not that marketing ever was a Sun strength!
Everyone loves to beat up on Microsoft’s Outlook. Including me! See Outlook Haters Anyone? and Outlook 2003 Rant. It is true that Outlook is a bit of an...
Read more →I am here at JavaOne and living among a very different crowd than I’ve been in lately. It’s the gathering of the Java faithful, and there’s a different feel here compared with the world I come from, the Windows/Microsoft world. Here are some of my field notes and random impressions. The keyboards on Sun computers have different spacings and I keep making mistakes in typing. The mouse has two buttons and no wheel. But the right button does something different from what I am used to. And boy, just taking a screen shot of something, some process crashed and dumped on my screen. (The computer didn’t crash, just the process…) …more later
As you know I am attending the JavaOne conference. I jotted down my key takeaways during the keynote for myself, which I thought I’d share here. The keynote featured several Sun execs, particularly Jonathan Schwarts, their President and COO. Take Away 1: Java as a platform is incredibly ubiquit...
Read more →I am away from home, at my home in Curacao for a reunion of Salas folks from around the world. I saw an childhood friend of mine, Raul, who asked me ‘So what’s a blog, anyway’? I was taken aback, because, what would Raul be doing, reading my blog, and especially with the rather ‘odd’ image that I le...
Read more →Sorry to make my Blog x-rated, but this picture was just too much 🙂 “ A visitor looks at Rasputin’s [deleted] displayed at the first Russian museum of erotica in St. Petersburg. The museum was founded by Igor Knyazkin, the chief of the prostate research center of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.(AFP/Interpress/Alexander Drozdov)”. Via Yahoo News.
I shoulda known… There’s cross-platform and then there’s cross-platform. A week later, about 20 testers later, we’ve done 2 more sub-releases (up to 0.5.2 now) to shake out various platformy problems. It’s one thing to get it to run and another thing to get it to run right. **[Java WebStart:](...
Read more →Occassionally, I will have either an incredibly positive or negative reaction to a book, play or movie and I will be moved, who knows why, to write a bit about it here. Well, I just saw “The Day After Tomorrow”and it is totally lame...
Read more →For some reason, it is not possible to get at the Socket object that the URL object uses for its network I/O. And so, on the face of it, you can’t set or change the time-out time. However here are two, semi-kludge properties that Sun has provided us to overcome that deficiency: System.setProperty(“sun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout”, “10000”); System.setProperty(“sun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout”, “10000”);