Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

2014-11-18 Thread Phil Haigh
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[The Java Posse] Re: Restful interfaces

2014-02-01 Thread Phil Haigh
I think in an ideal world most developers would want to do things the right way. That means having (a) the time to do it all and (b) the knowledge to know exactly how to attack it. In the real world though not many of us know exactly the right way to do all of REST correctly (admission - I don’

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 2 Messages in 1 Topic

2013-10-19 Thread Phil Haigh
Maybe we'll get an update at Devoxx during the Java Posse Live slot. On 19 Oct 2013 06:56, wrote: > Today's Topic Summary > > Group: http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/topics > >- No more podcasts? <#141cf48e1507a1ca_group_thread_0> [2 Updates] > > No more > podcasts?

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 1 Message in 1 Topic

2013-06-07 Thread Phil Haigh
My personal experience of Oracle (Developer 6i) and Sun (java programmer, web component developer, enterprise architect) is that it makes almost no difference. In the UK at least. As a recruiter I hardly ever came across certified individuals, and even when I did I only really used it to slim down

Re: [The Java Posse] Episode 404...

2013-01-23 Thread Phil Haigh
On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:16:10 UTC, Jon Kiparsky wrote: > > > What's the insult? > > Here we go: " > > Hopefully you understand that the word "hillbilly" can be offensive to > people? > Yes, that's intentional. " By his own admission, the use of a term that he has acknowledged can be o

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: New Opera Browser - Very Strange

2012-11-23 Thread Phil Haigh
Shakespeare was a 16th century playwright. Saying that he wrote opera is akin to saying Turing contributed to the Open JDK. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Coordinating jobs

2012-10-29 Thread Phil Haigh
I recently worked on a Grails app that ran as four nodes; one node performed job scheduling and announced itself as the 'master' via a UDP broadcast. If I remember correctly it would send a UDP periodically; when other nodes stopped receiving, another would assign itself as master, start broadc

[The Java Posse] Re: it ain't over yet (java 7 security hole(s))

2012-09-01 Thread Phil Haigh
On Friday, 31 August 2012 20:39:54 UTC+1, bsmith.occs wrote: > > > http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/08/critical-bug-discovered-in-newest-java/ > > > Researchers said they've uncovered a flaw in the Java 7 update > released by Oracle on Thursday that allows attackers to take complet

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Project Jigsaw probably pushed back to Java 9

2012-07-19 Thread Phil Haigh
> > > Because this proves - again - how deeply shallow and mercantile Java's new > owner is. > > It's sad really... > > >> >> Oracle is in the business of making money through its technology. Jigsaw is not a priority because it has no direct, positive impact on its ability to make money. Why

Re: [The Java Posse] Mono FUD? No, it's called "being rational"

2012-06-21 Thread Phil Haigh
So are these Microsoft-announced (but not yet available) features, or Mono-only extensions? Just askin'. On Wednesday, 20 June 2012 15:33:41 UTC+1, Ricky Clarkson wrote: > > "[Mono] is always going to be playing catch-up" - not in all areas. New > language features are often available to end us

Re: [The Java Posse] Mono FUD? No, it's called "being rational"

2012-06-21 Thread Phil Haigh
On Wednesday, 20 June 2012 07:59:47 UTC+1, fcassia wrote: > > > > But wait, it gets better: > > - > > But why is his company Xamarin suddenly dropping Moonlight? de Icaza > explains, "Silverlight has not gained much adoption on the web, so it did > not become the must-have technology that I t

Re: [The Java Posse] good stuff on patents

2012-06-21 Thread Phil Haigh
The way I read it, Cedric is expressing an opinion, not a fact - so you shouldn't shoot him down for arriving at a conclusion that you've inferred. On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 16:15:14 UTC+1, rgoers wrote: > > > On Jun 19, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:28 AM,

[The Java Posse] Re: The new JavaZone-video - The JavaHeist

2012-06-21 Thread Phil Haigh
I've lived and worked in London five days of the week for the last five years and I've met plenty of people just like The Governor. Much as I don't use that language myself (ok, not much) I don't find it grates because it is part of the vernacular for certain areas of the city. On Thursday, 21

Re: [The Java Posse] The new JavaZone-video - The JavaHeist

2012-06-21 Thread Phil Haigh
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I particularly liked Mr Pascal's Facebook check-in list: "Gosling's Tavern", "Ye Olde Developer" (Nerds drinking - 58008 were here), "Gates Massage Parlour" (3505 were here) and "La Scala". And am I the only person who thought Mr Dot looks like Sebastian Vettel? -- You

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: API's can't be copyrighted

2012-06-21 Thread Phil Haigh
According to Tech News Today (well, yesterday, episode 526) this is just a mechanism to speed up the current process which in turn allows them to file for appeal more quickly. On Thursday, 21 June 2012 04:02:03 UTC+1, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > Speaking of which, Oracle just agreed to zero damage

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: James Gosling Says He Doesn't Care About Java

2011-06-30 Thread Phil Haigh
Well I don't totally disagree with you - I found the register article to be lightweight and not fully considered - almost to the point of unconscious(?) self-ridicule - if the cloud is what you define it to be, Oracle can define it on their own terms. Neither do I take the James Gosling comment

[The Java Posse] rss4jsp version 0.1 released

2008-11-25 Thread Phil Haigh
All, I'd like to announce the release of version 0.1 of rss4jsp, an all-new content syndication tag library built on top of Project Rome. rss4jsp allows developers to quickly and easily embed RSS feeds into their JSP pages with no requirement to write a single line of Java, or to have a d