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2010-02-11 Thread John Wright
Is it good form to post job listings here? I'm not an agent, I run a small team of Java and .NET developers working in London (City) and need two Java Developers. Jobs are interesting and the money is very good. Given the talent level in this group - this would be a great place to ask! John --

[The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Okay. But other than a concerted effort by snoracle that involves a lot of marketing dosh, how do you propose we fix this, other than by doing what we're doing now: Inform and link? If sun wants to apply KISS to the process and boil down the feature list to a small easily explainable core, then,

[The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Steven Herod
It's at this point, I post this link: http://blog.bitquabit.com/2010/02/10/fightings-been-fun-and-all-its-time-shut-and-get-along/ On Feb 12, 1:31 pm, Jess Holle wrote: > On 2/11/2010 8:07 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote:>> There's an Mercurial plug-in > for Eclipse, too (http://www.vectrace.com/ >

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Jess Holle
On 2/11/2010 8:07 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote: There's an Mercurial plug-in for Eclipse, too (http://www.vectrace.com/ mercurialeclipse/). My point was that the Netbeans sources itself are stored in Mercurial (remember Tor talking about this extensively on a podcast), whereas the Eclipse guys dec

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Joshua Marinacci
> There's an Mercurial plug-in for Eclipse, too (http://www.vectrace.com/ > mercurialeclipse/). My point was that the Netbeans sources itself are > stored in Mercurial (remember Tor talking about this extensively on a > podcast), whereas the Eclipse guys decided to offer git as the > standard dist

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 2/12/10 00:17 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: NB: These aren't on the drop list because they were never on the go list. They were _in discussion_, quite a while ago, but they never made it even remotely close to the go list. ... but most people don't realize that. I think that the point of my

[The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
No, the list isn't incomplete. All the things you mentioned aren't _currently_ slated to be in openJDK7. For example, until about last week, the odds of JSR310 were looking very bleak indeed. Now that Open Gamma has hired Colebourne, partly so he can finish JSR310 on Open Gamma's dime, its looking

[The Java Posse] Re: Can you recommend a Java image manipulation library?

2010-02-11 Thread Phil
OK, in the end I used the java-image-scaling project - http://code.google.com/p/java-image-scaling - from Google Code to do my resizing. The project is very easy to use and has a fair few options. It has a dependency on JH Labs Filters - http://www.jhlabs.com/ip/filters and is nice and quick. As

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-11 Thread Marcelo Fukushima
UPDATE: Engadget is reporting that the production lines are being temporarily shut down in observance of the Chinese New Year. Im guessing neither? On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 6:34 PM, CKoerner wrote: > > A good sign or bad sign? > > > http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/02/11/palm-orders-halt-on-p

[The Java Posse] Re: The iPhone, Open Systems, and Leaving Sun

2010-02-11 Thread CKoerner
A good sign or bad sign? http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/02/11/palm-orders-halt-on-production-of-palm-pre-plus-palm-pixi-plus/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.co

[The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread mbien
regarding JSR-310 - date and time API http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/new_job_impact_on_jsr On Feb 11, 4:56 pm, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On 2/11/10 16:31 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:> Here you go: > > >http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ > > I know it - but it's not complet

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Joseph Darcy
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On 2/11/10 16:31 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > >> Here you go: >> >> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ >> >> >> > I know it - but it's not complete. For instance it doesn't mention: > > 1. th

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Viktor Klang
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On 2/11/10 16:31 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > >> Here you go: >> >> http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ >> >> >> > I know it - but it's not complete. For instance it doesn't mention: > > 1. th

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 2/11/10 16:31 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: Here you go: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ I know it - but it's not complete. For instance it doesn't mention: 1. that neither JSR-295 (BeansBinding) will be in Java 7 2. the fate of JSR-310 (Dates and Times) 3. anything of g

[The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
Here you go: http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ On Feb 11, 10:39 am, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On 2/9/10 15:17 , JodaStephen wrote:> Maybe something got lost in translation. > > > There is a new invokedynamic bytecode being discussed that would be > > used by other languages. There

[The Java Posse] Re: Another sign that Apple is going in the wrong direction

2010-02-11 Thread Karsten Silz
On Feb 11, 3:35 pm, Casper Bang wrote: > All I am saying is that I don't want a nanny telling me what I > can and can't do. If you infer something about yourself from this, > that's entirely on your part. Sorry, I misunderstood you there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[The Java Posse] Re: Another sign that Apple is going in the wrong direction

2010-02-11 Thread Casper Bang
> I would restrain from calling somebody a kid just because they don't > share your opinion. You're the one who brought up the issue with ratings and protections etc. All I am saying is that I don't want a nanny telling me what I can and can't do. If you infer something about yourself from this, t

[The Java Posse] Fwd: JSTL Error - org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate TagLibraryValidator class: org.apache.taglibs.standard.tlv.JstlSqlTLV

2010-02-11 Thread jitesh dundas
Hi Friends, I am getting this error if you guys could help. On my Tomcat 5.5. and JDK 1.5, this seems to work fine but on migrating to another server Tomcat 5.0.19, this gives an error:- --- org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Failed to load or instantiate TagLibraryVa

[The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Karsten Silz
On Feb 11, 12:15 pm, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > > I found this article to be a great > > introduction in how Git differs from CVS/SVN: > >http://alblue.blogspot.com/2010/02/git-for-eclipse-users.html(despite > > the title, Eclipse only comes into play in the very last paragraph - > > and yes, Eclip

[The Java Posse] Re: Another sign that Apple is going in the wrong direction

2010-02-11 Thread Karsten Silz
On Feb 11, 11:59 am, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > Your example is correct, but doesn't necessarily drive to your > conclusion. Summing up, you've said that Apple's restrictive rules make > it impossible for third parties to jeopardize the user experience. I > believe that it's up to the consumers to

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 2/11/10 10:45 , Karsten Silz wrote: SVN is the safe choice and improved branching in 1.6 a while ago (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn- book.html#svn.branchmerge). Git/Mercurial is more risky since general tool support is less mature. I found this article to be a great introduction

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Another sign that Apple is going in the wrong direction

2010-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 2/11/10 11:13 , Karsten Silz wrote: This is great - I like to be able to quickly use the apps. On Windows, developers feel the urgent need to re-invent basic UI concepts over and over. For instance, some fine folks at Skype thought it to be a good idea to create their own window style on Wi

[The Java Posse] Re: Another sign that Apple is going in the wrong direction

2010-02-11 Thread Karsten Silz
On Feb 10, 8:40 pm, Casper Bang wrote: > Yeah and also makes sure you can not install apps which: > - duplicate functionality (browser, messenger, podcast client) I am fine with the apps that are on there. > - do not conform strictly to Steve's HIG This is great - I like to be able to quickly u

[The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Karsten Silz
On Feb 11, 2:58 am, Henrique de Miranda Gontijo wrote: > Hi guys, > > I need yours advices about a great SCM tool to manage a project where we > work withs evolution and supporting. Because of the business rules there are > times we get working with 3 or 4 branches. The team is small - 3 guys. > W

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: FCM in bytecode, what's next? (ep 296)

2010-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 2/9/10 15:17 , JodaStephen wrote: Maybe something got lost in translation. There is a new invokedynamic bytecode being discussed that would be used by other languages. There is also the possibility that the design of closures in Java might act as a common standard for non-Java JVM languages.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: SCM advice

2010-02-11 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On 2/11/10 04:35 , Joshua Marinacci wrote: I have to say, DVCS's really proved their worth to me when I moved a project from Kenai.com to BitBucket. I just did an 'hg push' to the new repo and everything was there, including the entire history. It's been really great to work with. Ditto