October 21, 2003
I am not alone!
Looks like I'm not the only one who hates NullPointerExceptions.
Re-reading that rant, I noticed that I've blocked out 3 of the 5 annoyances. I'm advancing more than I thought.
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October 16, 2003
Java not cross-platform?
Dave writes:
Maybe Mono and Linux will succeed where Java and the Java platform failed. They
will finally make cross-platform work, or at least the Windows/Linux part, and
no longer just a silly concept.
I don't understand this. I develop software in Java on Windows every day, and deploy it to Unix every day. Even better: the same code is deployed on a Unix and on a Windows machine. It does work for me. Why is Dave still calling it "a silly concept"?
Assimilation
This must have hurt: Koen
admits Eclipse is handier than IntelliJ IDEA. I know of some people out there who still don't believe this. I'll wait until their assimilation is complete...
October 15, 2003
Everything you wanted to know about CVS
... available in one handy book:
The CVS Book. Probably exists for some time now, but I've never seen it before.
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October 13, 2003
Musical OSS
I'm catching up on weblogs after a week of holiday, and the more I read about
the GetTogether, like
this (music to explain pipelines? How the hell did he do that?), the more I regret I wasn't there... More luck next year, I hope.
Beer: the American way
Put beer in a big open vessel. Put the vessel on ice. Leave it for a couple of hours. It will taste great!
Or apparently, that seems to be the American way to do it. *shivers*
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Cocoon GetTogether
What happens when you put a bunch of geeks together, to finally meet IRL? They
start tapping away on their laptops. You have to be a geek to understand :-)
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Scenery
Markus shows us Ghent. Hmm, and to think that I've walked on that spot quite a few times, without noticing how beautiful it actually is. It takes a foreigner to point out the nice things in your country...
The same thing happened last Saturday in Antwerp, when I went shopping with the family. We saw a lot of tourists gazing at stuff, and only when we started wondering what was so interesting, we saw the beauty. Belgians are just not chauvinistic enough, I guess.
October 01, 2003
Pop-ups
Hear hear:
kasia in a nutshell: Life with pop-ups. The people with the money make the laws. It has always been so, and it will always be. Consequence: the laws will always allow the people with money to make more money. Or do you think people in the Middle Ages
really wanted to give 10% of their crop to the Church or their Lord?
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