Erik's Weblog

Grab life by the ball...

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:08:16 GMT

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A true underdog story...

We went to see Dodgeball on Saturday afternoon. Brainless, but funny.

Patched, again.

JReleaseInfo 1.2.0 was released with my second patch. Nice.

The Pulse

Erik's Pulse has been published.

Quirkz

I reported a bug in Quartz 1.4.x. No response yet.

Share this...

Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:28:38 GMT

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CC Share

Clevercactus (Diego's company) has formally announced the first public beta release of Clevercactus Share.

I've been using it for a while now. It rocks.

Riddick

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 13:02:41 GMT

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Riddick

We went to see The Chronicles of Riddick yesterday. I'm not a big fan of Vin Diesel, but he keeps on making good action-packed movies. I guess he's growing on me.

Peeved

Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:57:56 GMT

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Development Tools

Someone a while back posted a list of the development tools they use on a regular basis. I figured I would do the same. Here goes nothing...

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Version Numbers

How comes there are so many companies that do not list the current version of their software offering? I'm so freaking tired of having to hunt down for version numbers. Stop wasting my time, and list the version numbers at the top of all product pages.

Even better, create a feed for updates so I can subscribe to it.

Random Thoughts

Fri, 4 Jun 2004 14:42:53 GMT

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OSS Java

So now than Sun said open source Java will happen at some undetermined point in time, everybody is doing the happy-joy-joy dance.

How quickly you forget?

Don't you remember when Sun said it would have Java standardized?

Way to go, Sun. Keep on dangling that carrot...

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Hitched!

Matt is getting married. Congrats!

His parents must be ecstatic. He's finally moving out.

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IDEA vs. Eclipse

I've read/heard it a thousand times, Eclipse is faster than IDEA, and it still makes me laugh. They both are slow as molasses at times.

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Jtest

I'm playing with Parasoft Jtest. I find it quite interesting that they are using Eclipse as a framework. At least it makes for familiar ground. The verdict so far: good. It's extremely slow, but it does generate useful tests and reports.

Amazon Tag Library

I wonder if there is a need for a tag library, like the Google TagLib, but for the Amazon API. Arjun has suggested it. I don't really know how much work it would be, but if there is some interest... Let me know.

Amazon

Talking about Amazon. I had an interesting chat with someone working there yesterday. I found out a bit about the technology behind the scene, and how they handle 600 hits per second. Fascinating stuff.