How to quit Explorer, the executable, without shutting down or logging off: That is one way, yes. A much cleaner way that very few people are aware of is this: Go to Start > Shutdown. When the dialog appears, hold CTRL+ALT+SHIFT and press Cancel. Explorer will cleanly unload all of it’s resources and shutdown. To [...]
There’s an upcoming conference actually called “Web Services: Not Really. Oh Really?”.. The big SOAP boys are now admitting they f’d up big time. Snicker.
Hmm: And that is the fact that Java is designed to be dynamically extensible not monolithic and static as is the prevailing pattern pursued by Sun’s JDK development team and the world of J2EE. Remember, Java in it’s early days was all about code-downloading and dynamic extension. Yet, all of those leading the Java masses [...]
XML for documents and JSON for data? Sounds right to me. Now if only someone would produce a sane data-centric API that can gain wide acceptance (at least within specific communities, if not cross-language) then we can finally stop using SAX and the DOM and a zillion attempts at ‘fixing’ them for the common data-centric [...]
Always nice to see in writing JSON has actually eclipsed S-expressions for me as the most obvious way to structure data. JSON effectively gives into the lure of alists and commits to them in a pretty obvious way. Also, in both JSON and S expressions, the concrete syntax is so trivial (and orthogonal to the [...]
Key questions – and some good answers – how to use REST instead of SOAP/WSDL for web services. Pragmatic answers to very relevant questions.
Why bother? I looked into this at JavaOne. JSR 277 looks to solve some of the same issues — critical ones, IMO — but… To recap, by example: * I use Library A + B. Let’s say they’re something significant and not easily not-used, e.g. Hibernate, Spring, … * A depends on Z version 1.2.3 [...]
In short, don’t impeach Bush or Cheney – as much as they might be due, it’s simply bad politics. No. Instead, go for lower-level officials: … Focusing On Bush Administration Officials Lowering the aim of an impeachment effort to focus on those who have aided and abetted, or directly engaged in, the commission of high [...]
Those who only know him from his 9/11 activities don’t know why he’s truly not electable: Those of us who live in New York can more easily remember that, directly prior to 9/11, Giuliani’s political career was considered by many to be washed up, and for good reason. Most people would credit him with conducting [...]
Now isn’t that refreshing. Not a foregone conclusion, but not improbable either. Amateurs talk strategy; professionals talk logistics. — Gen. Omar Bradley Even I know an army lives on its stomach, an old expression meaning the best army fighting force in the world isn’t very effective if they lack food, fuel and ammunition. And I’m [...]
Commands, compiler and linker options and related things to create and use shared and static libraries on many platforms (with all the biggies covered). Very handy. Wish I’d had this list a few years back (and not this list in its current state a few years back
“DataDraw is an ultra-fast persistent database for high performance programs written in C.” Nifty if you need it.
