Something on SWT would be great!
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I vote for Warner's! A perfect Tucson green!
p.s.
My wife says she'd like to see Tim's lizard coming out of Eduardo's cup...
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I don't know much about XML so this might be a stupid question, but is
there a good reason that closing tags are required to have the element name?
That is, instead of blop10/blop couldn't it just be blop10/?
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At 12:38 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Martin wrote:
My guess is to help humans match the tags that may be pages apart.
A good editor should be able to handle that.
At 08:10 AM 2/22/03 -0700, Vincent wrote:
I would assume it would make it easier for the parser to find problems like:
a1b2c3//
So a tag is
I'm looking for a tool but I'm not even sure what it might be called. What
I'd like to do, for example, is to be able to find all the places where a
cast is performed in Java source code.
What I picture is a tool that would parse source code and mark it up in
some specified way, perhaps with
I apologize for this being so far off topic but I was wondering if anybody
knows of any websites, blogs, etc. that are closely following the Aspen fire.
I ask because I'm out of town at the moment and I've been following things
on azstarnet and the TV station websites, but the stories often lag
A meeting next Tuesday would be fine for me.
Are there any issues with access at AMO?
p.s.
What's a holiday?
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Sounds like fun -- count me in!
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At 07:29 AM 2/9/2004 -0800, Todd Ellermann wrote:
Yes, You'll get the invite today.
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Todd,
You're the president of the Phoenix JUG, right? My note was asking about
the Tucson JUG meeting...
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At 11:16 AM 3/1/2004 -0700, you wrote:
Hey folks -
It's only a week away, howabout updating the website to show the future
meeting schedule (dates and speakers where known)? When folks browse the
site currently, they don't know there is a new meeting coming up or what
to expect.
I know it takes
In the last three weeks my incoming spam has risen from a long steady
90-ish a day to over 250 a day. Last night's TMDA report shows over 300.
Has anybody else been seeing any increases?
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I didn't mention it but what I use to deal with spam is TMDA -- a
whitelist-based challenge/response system. I adopted it last November
using a POP account at nightskyhosting.com and it's worked just great,
blocking about 18k+ spams, with zero false positives. Those writing to me
out of the blue
At 06:24 PM 4/30/2004 -0700, Tim wrote:
Just happened upon this site -- some interesting reading:
http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articleIndex
Years ago I worked for them as a subcontractor on a large C++ project.
They really know what they're doing. Bob Martin's latest design book,
Agile
Speaking of C#, here's the most recent entry in my journal:
Tuesday, 7/13/04 11:58am: I awoke from a frustrating dream. I was trying
to use Visual Studio .NET to set the properties on a bottle of Thousand
Island dressing.
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I'm teaching CS 352 (Systems Programming and UNIX) at UA this fall. Today
a student asked me what local companies I know of that are using UNIX. I
know of a few examples but I'd like to be able to cite some more.
If you know of a local company that's making use of some flavor of UNIX,
I'd
At 09:50 PM 8/31/2004 -0700, Tim wrote:
Is there a quick and dirty tutorial on creating plug-ins so I can start to
understand this code without reading the 979 page PDF on plug-in
development?
I think I recently saw a book on Eclipse plug-ins at BN on Broadway. It
might be (via Amazon search)
... :)
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If I had a blog I'm sure I'd have millions of readers. I'd draw them in
with some great quotes, like these:
When you come to a problem you can lean forward and code or sit back and
think.
-- Todd Proebsting
A month of coding can often save a day at the library.
-- Greg Thain
There is
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Does anybody know of any reputable companies/consultants that do domain
appraisal? Googling for domain appraisal turns up lots of companies but
most of them look like pretty marginal operations -- taking only PayPal for
payment, for example.
Every once in a while I do a headcount of the programming language books in
bookstores. Here's what I got tonight at the BN on Broadway:
Java 75
C++ 62
PHP 51
C# 38
C19
VB.NET 19
Perl 18
VB6 13
Python8
If I'm going to count PHP I suppose I should count
At 12:40 PM 7/6/2005, Tom Hicks wrote:
Personally, I would prefer Duke Vader from Jarwars :)
http://madbean.com/anim/jarwars/
This is truly a hoot -- be sure to take a look at it!! I love the part
where Duke's revising his code!
p.s.
http://madbean.com/anim/totallygridbag/ is pretty cute,
Is there is a meeting this month (tomorrow?) or is the party this weekend
taking its place?
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Here's an announcement of a CS colloquium that may be of interest to some.
Speaker: Steven P. Reiss, Brown University
Topic: Efficient Checking of Component Specifications in Java Systems
Date:Thursday, October 13, 2005
Time:11:00AM
Place: Gould-Simpson, Room 906
Abstract
Let's meet! Even if there's no speaker we could talk about whatever Java
junk is on our minds at the moment, not to mention further discussion about
a code sprint.
Duffy: Do you know if the Espresso Art room happens to have a projector?
Below is an announcement I got via a UA Computer Science mailing list. I
don't know if there any restrictions on attendance but if you're interested
you can certainly check with Anji Siegel (see below) and find out.
--
An invitation to join MIS for a presentation by one of Google's
Below is an announcement about the next
.NET meeting. Note that the group's website is
http://tucsondevelopers.net/
From: Gordon
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Subject: .Net Meeting Wednesday, Jan 18th
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:18:16 -0700
The next meeting is on Wednesday,
contribution, of course).
At 03:03 PM 1/31/2006, Chad wrote:
Cool. I was about to offer to pick it up myself just to get it
moving. Who's name would the account be under? I guess our
Treasurer? Wait - we still don't even have a replacement President
yet. Darn...
On 1/31/06, William H. Mitchell
yep, we need a projector. Sooo...how much is a projector? Oh,
about $800. Hmm...we have no budget, so, Hey Bill, could you donate
$800 so we can buy a projector? grin
If the JUG hooks me up with another contract like my current one,
I'll be happy to throw in a projector, too! :)
I haven't
July 8 or 15 would work well for my wife and I. Mt. Lemmon sounds
great. We could bring an avocado/black bean/corn/etc. salad.
As to picnic areas, I sadly haven't spent enough time on Mt. Lemmon
recently to suggest one over another.
Today's ServerSide newsletter has a link for a better-than-usual blog
on to ORM or not to ORM. (Executive summary: Can't live with them;
can't live without them!)
Here's the link:
http://www.theserverside.com/blogs/thread.tss?thread_id=41715asrc=EM_NNL_452368
At 05:25 PM 8/21/2006, Tom wrote:
I can do a presentation on SOA and ESB technologies, if anyone
is interested.
Sounds good to me!
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At 06:48 PM 8/30/2006, Martin wrote:
We are fortunate to have William Mitchell as a presenter for September. His
presentations are always interesting, informative, and spark a lively
discussion.
Translation: I hope William will take a few minutes to prepare for
his presentation *this* time.
Below is a posting that's circulating around the
CS department at the U. You might find it interesting.
From: Lester McCann
Organization: Univ. of Arizona CS Dept.
Subject: Potentially interesting Seattle Times story
Mentioned in today's ACM TechNews email:
Sounds great! Save me a seat!
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Last fall I requested an evaluation copy of AspectJ in Action for
possible use in a class I was teaching. Yesterday I received a
second copy of it. I put the duplicate up in the raffle at last
night's meeting. A friend who won it, Dave Bilgray, decided he
didn't want it, and not knowing I'd
I'll hijack your hijack!
With Ruby, I've been pleasantly surprised by the amount of difference
that no-compile-step makes. For scripting-type applications I've
used Icon for years and although Icon compilation is virtually
instantaneous, it's still another step. With Ruby it's
At 12:20 PM 1/13/2007, you wrote:
Will you be posting the presentation online somewhere afterward, so
those of us who can't attend can still benefit? :)
Sure.
However, I can tell you now it'll be largely derived from these slides:
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/classes/cs372/fall06/ruby.sli.pdf
I don't know what it's like elsewhere in town but at our house, near
Sunrise and Kolb, we've got about an inch of snow in places and it's
still coming down!
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If you're interested in learning a little bit about a Ruby this a
quick reminder that I'll be talking about Ruby at the Developer's SIG
on Tuesday night. See devsig.editme.com for the details.
I'll be focusing on the core language for this one; nothing on Rails.
Is there a meeting next week?
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Re Was it good?, I thought so!
Andrew did a great job of laying out the basic benefits and operation
of CAS. I feel like I've now got a good handle on it and have an
idea about when to use it, or not.
Duffy's talk, on Shibboweth*, was a little shorter and further into
an area that I don't
Developer's SIG Meeting
Tuesday, March 6, 7pm
E. Grant, TCS HQ
http://devsig.editme.com
Binary Rewriting and Automatic Code Compaction of an OS Kernel
Professor Saumya Debray
Warner's presentation got me to thinking about a variety of things
regarding DSLs. I was moved to blog about it:
http://williammitchell.blogspot.com/2007/03/thoughts-from-presentation-on-domain.html
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http://www.fortify.com/news-events/releases/2007/2007-04-02.jsp
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Something I heard years ago, and I wish I knew who to attribute it
to, is that there are three ways to learn a programming language:
Teach it.
Implement it.
Write a book about it.
(For best results, do all three.)
It's interesting to consider how the three fill in differing aspects
I started out on a list of things to see if/how a new language has,
but I suppose I've ended up with more of a wish list:
Operator overloading, with arbitrary operators
Support for functions as values
Curried functions
Anonymous functions
Function composition
Tuples
A follow-up to a Server Side article on JSF had an interesting graph
of job postings for various frameworks:
http://www.indeed.com/trendgraph/jobgraph.png?q=java+jsf%2C+ruby+rails%2C+spring+mvc%2C+webwork%2C+struts2%2C+tapestry+java
Of course, I had to try the graph with various programming
Sun announced on Thursday that they're changing their stock symbol
from SUNW to JAVA. Here's their press release:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-08/sunflash.20070823.1.xml
The article doesn't mention it but the javac in SDK 5_03, preview 3
will compile .sun files, along with .java files,
I'm not familiar with that book but 2000 was a loong time ago
with respect to Java enterprise development. It's hard to imagine
that there would be much relevant to today's landscape except for
maybe the stuff on servlets, and even that will be dated.
A book on Java EE 5 (the latest
In case you haven't heard, some folks in Phoenix have put together a
pretty impressive code camp for this weekend -- 97 sessions! It's
perhaps a little Microsoft-centric but there's lots of other stuff, too.
Here's a link: http://desertcodecamp.com/
I've got a previous commitment for the
Both proposed topics sound like fun to me but if I had to pick, I'd pick Antlr.
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Yes, thanks for that presentation last night, Warner. I'm looking
forward to hearing about Laszlo, too. Thanks also to VMS for hosting.
I like Chad's suggestion of Pecha Kucha. I'd never heard of it but
it sounds like an interesting discipline.
Re a Ruby/Python/agile language group, I'd
There's a key point on that page of t:fileUpload documentation: set
the form's attribute enctype to multipart/form-data.
Without that enctype, the setter indicated by the tag's value
attribute is simply never called.
I should mention that Andy is the one who pointed out that enctype issue to
Chris,
About the multipart data, it sounds like the Tomahawk Extensions
filter is perhaps all you're missing. Take a look at this,
http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/extensionsFilter.html, and see
where that leaves you.
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Every once in a while I encounter a situation where a code change or
a library change breaks something in a system but the problem isn't
noticed until long after the critical change.
I've never gotten up the steam to do it but I've often thought it
would be interesting to cook up a simple
I first heard about Scala from Howard Lewis Ship, and just yesterday
it came up in a conversation with Bob Martin. There's a lot of
interest in the language at the moment, and I'm looking forward to
seeing what Tom and Randy have to say about it.
I vote for the JRuby DSLs presentation. I attended a couple of
Brian's Hibernate presentations at NFJS last summer. He's an
excellent speaker, BTW.
As I've mentioned before, I liked Groovy from a distance but I found
it to be frustrating to use. My experience with Ruby was the
opposite --
I had a blast at last year's NFJS in Phoenix, so I'm definitely
planning on it this year. It looks like we've got five (Steve,
Bashar, Andy, Danny, and me) -- enough for the minimum discount --
maybe we can have a volunteer or a virtual rock/paper/scissors to
take the duty of seeing what's
Here's a Google tech talk on git, by Linus Torvalds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
(Executive summary of his presentation: If you're not using git,
you're an idiot, even if Google hired you. Any questions?)
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At 09:53 PM 7/10/2008, Chad wrote:
These kids and their new-fangled protocols. XML was good enough for
my grandfather, and it's good enough for me! Why, we had to make our
angle brackets out of two sticks and baling wire...
I took a look at that link but the documentation seems incomplete
http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/31/firebug-lite-extends-firebugs-reach/
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Just like last year, a lunch-time show of hands at NFJS for Who uses
Eclipse? seemed to raise just about every hand in the room. And,
just like last year, a follow-up from Neal Ford -- Who'd still use
Eclipse if they had to pay $400 for it? -- made every one of those
hands disappear.(*)
At 12:15 PM 8/14/2008, Chad Woolley wrote:
I use IntelliJ Idea and TextMate mainly now. I gotta say, I think
eclipse sucks next to Idea. If you are into a full-blown IDE (in
other words, don't like textmate/VIM/Emacs/etc), intelliJ is the best
one.
Chad: It sounds like you may be just the
At 12:40 PM 8/15/2008, Chad Woolley wrote:
Chad: It sounds like you may be just the person to help folks
decide [about InitelliJ]
Actually, probably not. I myself prefer to use TextMate ...
Well, I'd be happy to see a good demo of TextMate, too! :)
I've heard lots about it, and Andrew's
I count Tom as a good friend and valued colleague but I've got to
respectfully disagree with him on this point. I don't see a charter
on the JUG website but for History, I see this:
The Tucson Java Users Group was established to provide information
about Java and Java related technologies to
At 08:45 AM 8/31/2008, you wrote:
Thanks William, you are right, I moved the code down to the methods
and it works fine.
Good!
You said that in IRC you put the code in a paste bin and then send
a link, how do I do this or where can I find out more about this.
At 03:11 PM 9/9/2008, TR wrote:
Also any thoughts or volunteers for topics? I'll throw one out there
- 'Command line tools any programmer should know'
+1 on this. Long live the keyboard!
Maybe this fits with one of the topic ideas on the wiki -- Favorite
small tools - four or five 10-15
I don't know if anything is lining up for next week's meeting but if
not I've got an idea for a low-effort plan B: Destination Unknown Hack Night.
The idea is pretty simple -- show up, possibly with your laptop, and
in the span of two hours (or is it 90 minutes?), we quickly settle on
Liz: Welcome to the list. Meetings are on second Tuesdays. See
tucson-jug.org for details.
What sort of stuff is B/E Aerospace using Java for?
I forget where it's at on the JUG site but all new members are
required to give two presentations. What can we put you down for? :)
At 03:58 PM 10/9/2008, Dan Mayhew wrote:
I'm a newbie that would like to get involved with JUG in order to
improve my skills (I'm a 2nd year CS student).
I compliment you on your initiative. I'd personally like to see more
such forward-looking students.
I also have a project that I need
Maybe we could get Matt Peterson to walk us through some web
development with Lisp. He's done some work with that.
I know that Tom Hicks has done a lot with Lisp -- maybe he could
entertain us with something.
Lightning talk: We could get Andy Lenards to tell the John McCarthy
meets Python
At 09:37 AM 10/12/2008, Tom wrote:
I can put together 20-25 minutes on the top few featues of Lisp which
have made it so long-lived (with some examples). Let me know,
though, because I don't want to expend time if no one is interested in this.
Sounds good to me. I'd show up for it.
I think
I got a note from TR last night with an ambiguating typo but it
appears to approve Tom's proposed presentation on Lisp, in honor of
Lisp's 50th birthday this month.
I haven't been able to reach TR for absolute confirmation but Tom is
cranking out slides as I write this so let's consider the
Here's a Thanks to Tom for putting together a fascinating Lisp
presentation on a moment's notice. I loved the subtitle, Longevity
Secrets of an Ancient Language, or something like that. I look
forward to seeing his slides up on the JUG site.
An interesting self-contained study of Lisp is
Since there's some interest in Flex among our
members I'm forwarding an announcement for a
Tucson Adobe Group meeting -- the speaker is Joey
Lott, co-author of one of my favorite Flex books,
Programming Flex 3. His topic is How To Architect Flex Applications.
Here's the announcement:
Considering all the OT stuff I've posted over the years I hope the
group can stand one more from me! :)
A start-up I'm involved with, Good Call Sports, was fortunate to be
selected as one of twenty-five $25,000 winners in the first round of
the most recent Facebook Fund (fbFund) competition.
In case you weren't there last night, I'd thought I mention that
Andy's iPhone talk turned out to be a big draw. We got past some
hardware issues by using VNC to put Andy's display on the big
screen. The talk was great--nobody asked about raffling off Andy's
phone for compensation. We had a
12/16 would be best for me but I could probably make it on 12/9 or 12/11, too.
As to where, any place is fine with me. The two (?) previous parties
at Feast have been great; I imagine a third would be equally great.
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No matter when the party is I think I may have identified a possible
sponsor -- see below.
DALLAS -- President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush said
Thursday that they have bought a house in a wealthy enclave in Dallas
and will return here once the president leaves office.
...
The
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Sounds great! Count me in.
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Everybody wear your JUG LED beanies so we can find each other for a
beer after tonight's talk!
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Yes, this does look interesting. I'm looking forward to it.
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At 10:20 AM 6/2/2009, Warner wrote:
Leadership: TR left the reins of the JUG at the last meeting, was
there anyone interested in picking up the mantle?
I would like to nominate William Mitchell ...
A news item working its way through the grapevine is that I've
accepted a staff position in UA
This is just a quick reminder that tomorrow night, August 11, Travis
Hoffman is speaking on Grails+JSON+GWT: Or, how I learned to stop
worrying and love Google
Here's a link to the announcement:
http://www.mail-archive.com/jug-discussion%40tucson-jug.org/msg03281.html
Here's a belated Thanks! to Travis Hoffman for a fine presentation on Tuesday.
Keep your calendars marked for September 8, when Andy Barton will be
talking about IntelliJ.
We've got Andy Lenards penciled in for an October 13 presentation on
Apache Hadoop
A regular activity at No Fluff Just Stuff symposiums is a show of
hands poll for who's using what tools and technologies. When the
topic turns to IDEs, and the moderator asks, IntelliJ?, most of the
symposium speakers raise their hands, along with a few in the
audience. Then on Eclipse? just
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