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Django Reverse-Engineer from Existing Legacy Tables
I've been playing a bit with Django, a Python-based web framework. One thing that people starting in Django seem to miss out on is the standard "how to I make model classes from my existing database tables"? That's not because you can't do th... |
4-Oct-2008 |
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Seam Leaves Home (on good terms)
In addition to cranking out a new stable release (2.0.1.GA) and a new early access release (2.1.0.A1), The JBoss Seam framework has been renamed to "The Seam Framework" and has a new website, http://www.seamframe... |
24-Mar-2008 |
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RepRap and The End of Want
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, one of the most pervasive inventions was the "replicator&quo... |
9-Mar-2008 |
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"The Web Beans Manifesto" is good.
Gavin King is often thought of as the developer of Hibernate, but he deserves as much credit for making Seam, the web framework that unifies JSF and EJB3. Now he's going for the standards hat, making Seam into "Web Beans", a Java Community Pr... |
26-Nov-2007 |
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Mac OS X Users want Java 6
This would seem surreal to a mainframe programmer of 20 years ago. Bloggers are putting the string 13949712720901ForOSX into their Blogs so that a Google Blog Search/Count can be used to show that a lot of people want Apple to release Java 6 for Mac OS... |
7-Nov-2007 |
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A Bigger, Better Tomcat Guide
My colleague in communications, Jason Brittain, has finished revising Tomcat: The Definitive Guide. The Second Edition was just released (October/November, 2007) and covers Tomcat 6.0. Coverage has been expanded in almost all areas; the first edition's... |
4-Nov-2007 |
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Beautiful Code
O'Reilly has opened a site called Beautiful Code with discussions and articles about the eponymous topic, partly by the authors of the eponymous book. Sample openers include "One of the reasons there's less beautiful code in the world than most of... |
9-Aug-2007 |
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The Open Source Cell Phone
I've wrtten here before about Asterisk, the open source PBX telephone system that runs on generic PCs (among other platforms). Now there's an open source cell phone! OpenMoko is the software project (see their wiki page first; the home page is kind of ... |
30-May-2007 |
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JavaOne Summary
This has been a very busy week at JavaOne, with lots of new announcments but few major ones. One of the largest announcements was a small but powerful technology called JavaFX, which is potentially very significant because it provides a compositional A... |
11-May-2007 |
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OpenJDK steps closer to full GPL open source
At this week's JavaOne, Sun announced that they have uploaded more pieces of the JDK to the open source repository. At the same time, they announced that there are some big missing pieces that will not be available under GPL until somebody replaces the... |
10-May-2007 |
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JavaOne is underway...
I'm on-site at JavaOne, finalizing my talk on Checking Java Programs. The conference seems as big as ever, to judge by the lineups for everything. Lots of good sessions. |
8-May-2007 |
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New Java Cookbook Recipes
Since I hope someday to release a third edition of the Java Cookbook, I've been thinking about what recipes need to be replaced, added, removed. I've set up a directory with some new/replacement recipes. Some are complete but some are just placeholders... |
2-May-2007 |
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Microsoft: Giant to Relic in under a decade?
My pal Lak recently resumed blogging and pointed to this piece on the 1999 verdict in U.S.A. v Microsoft. Back then Microsoft was the behemoth that crushed Netscape and nearly crushed Java, in the process diverting Java from the Applet to the Enterpris... |
18-Apr-2007 |
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Rails-like Web Development in the Java world
I've written before about Groovy, the scripting language that extends Java into a first-class extensible scripting framework. Given that Ruby on Rails has attracted a lot of attention, it was only natural that somebody build a framework using the ideas... |
7-Apr-2007 |
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New Book: Checking Java Programs
O'Reilly Media has published my first e-book, Checking Java Programs with Open Source Tools! You can read a bit about it on my little site or you can go direct to the O'Reilly site (the book sells for less than US$10; how can you resist?). |
3-Apr-2007 |
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New Blog, Same As the Old Blog
After using my own cobbled-together blogware for a few years, I realized I'd probably never find the time to "finish" writing it. So, I decided to get something better. Around this time somebody called my attention to a web-based blogging pac... |
23-Mar-2007 |
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The Failure of Software Packaging
There are too many packaging formats. And, projects that don't put up immutable numbered source archives in a standard format are the bane of the porting person's existence. |
19-Mar-2007 |
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Java's Printf vs OO
I still keep hearing that Java 5's printf mechanism is somehow "a throwback to non-OO techniques". I've heard this comment from several sources, that printf is anathema to an OO language. But I'm afraid I have never heard a rational defense ... |
16-Apr-2006 |
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Java in decline? Not!
Tim O'Reilly knows tech books better than probably anybody else on the planet. His book sales analysis really track what is happening in tech. And he notes that Java book sales are up by 5% (of the total market, not of previous Java sales) over the las... |
22-Jun-2005 |
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Now Java people are Feelin' Groovy
Check out my O'ReillyNet article on Groovy, the new scripting language for Java. Groovy has the power of Perl, Ruby or Python with most of the syntax and all of the APIs from Java. |
29-Sep-2004 |