The Cave

Incidental but handy nonetheless – a good quick description of VS2K8′s HotPatch feature (at the assembler level).

Great Python intro/tutorial if you already know how to program in another language and are looking to learn Python. But a bit extensive. There’s also Learn Python in 10 minutes which does a whirlwind tour of Python quickly, though a bit too much at once IMO. There’s the official Python Tutorial by Guido if you [...]

Cute. Of course, he’s right [On both Python and Java points <G>]

I’m @ the keynote where they just walked thru creating a “Friends location” application. Very nice GUI tools – better than almost any I’ve seen (and I’ve seen quite a few). Now going into demos of various developers who’ve built iPhone applications. BTW you can check Macworld’s LiveUpdate for the latest. First up, SEGA with [...]

Handy tips.

20 useful but not necessarily well known Java libraries. Good list to know. I’ve heard of most (though Joda Time wins the most-accurate-description award – “Date & Time that doesn’t suck”). JarJar and jDBI are new by me and sound very handy.

Slides from the session. Good stuff (and long overdue).

Why JSR 203 includes both methods: An existence check yields one of three answers: the file exists, the file does not exist, or it can’t say (due a permission problem for example). The exists and notExists are convenience methods for cases where you want to take action when a file is confirmed to exist (at [...]

Some valid criticisms of the new java.nio.filesystem package. For instance: Let me reemphasize: I want to be able to write code that inspects the local platform and behaves accordingly without using any platform dependent classes. I do not want to have to use any Apple specific classes just to read the Mac creator code when [...]

A GUI builder for GWT. How nice.

Coming along nicely. It’s still a shame Manhattan Associates was too short-sighted, greedy and stupid to fund it properly when it was called Core Presentation Services (CPS) 2.0, before it ‘moved’ to Google. But that’s another story.

Duh. Old news – this started about 3 years ago, though more so with leaders in the Java community. No surprise it’s become more common. NOTE: I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro

Yet more evidence why you should use Python