JetBrains, who teased us with Scala support early on but it turned out to be just some dudes playing around until they got pulled back to their real work on a Groovy plug-in (because that was the serious language with the businessy future… last year) is planning to support Scala in their next major version. It will be a separately installed plug-in, and if you download an IDE snapshot you can test it out already. And there’s a discussion forum all about this plug-in. For serious! Way to go j.b.! They could have owned the market a year ago when there were no usable Scala IDE plug-ins close to being finished, but it’s not too late to win some new customers by being the best. Certainly we’ll be paying attention (and spieling). { previously }
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Out of the internet. This weblog will return to regular service on or about June 15.
n8han
Jun 2
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Friggin’ tips: when Ubuntu wants to reboot because of package upgrades, it creates the file /var/run/reboot-required. Check that space occasionally on servers where you don’t use the graphical desktop and won’t see reboot notifications.
n8han
Jun 16
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Web development with Wicket, Part 1: The state of Wicket: “How is stateful Wicket programming different from traditional Web programming? What are the advantages and disadvantages of stateful development, how is it best leveraged in an application, and how can it be eliminated if necessary? To answer these questions, we will walk through the creation of a stateful Wicket application, then mercilessly eliminate the application’s server-side state, to see what we’re left with.” Just like in ESotSM!
n8han
Jun 16
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Earlier we suggested that JavaScript might be the upstart that snatches the cross-platform appish crown from Flash, just as Adobe is elbowing past Java applets. RoughlyDrafted sees a particular JS framework as the lever: ”SproutCore doesn’t compete against the use of Flash to make animated ads or navigation applets, but rather in deploying full, highly interactive applications, the target of Adobe’s Flash-based AIR platform plans.” But with Processing.js popping the web’s eyeballs, that caveat is unnecessary. The only question is whether SproutCore will integrate with P.jsp or make a new library that hews closer to Cocoa’s Quartz.
n8han
Jun 17
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Parallelism: The False Hope Of Apple’s Snow Leopard
n8han
Jun 19
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WebKit getting flashy: “What struck me watching these demos is that you could build a really slick web app UI using stuff like the canvas tag, SVG, and advanced CSS.” Okay, then. Apple must be building a JS vector animation library (+tools) to compete with ActionScript / Flash. That was probably the plan even before Adobe revealed their scheme to invade the desktop by AIR. { previously }
n8han
Jun 20
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Criminal intent: Intentional Programming is “ludicrous because it shouldn’t work, because if it would, it would have been implemented ages ago and we’d all be much happier. This is not a new problem. Yet Simonyi seems to have made it work somehow.” { previously }
n8han
Jun 21
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Technically moving: if you noticed the downtime on Saturday morning, that was server move attempt #1. There will be more, although now the DSL company is sending us a second modem to test at new loc prior to moving the server. They sort of had to because Verizon loves to say that service has been activated at an address when in fact they are just playin’. Verizon, please: Don’t play.
n8han
Jun 22
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Oh brother: “C++ eventually sucked up all the oxygen and Smalltalk is now only a language for hobbyists and the occasional programming god. I think this is the most likely threat to the Rails surplus, that C# or Scala or something can do a good enough job that people can double their productivity with far less of a change in mindset or tools, and eventually no one will care about the ten times (or whatever) productivity of Rails. ‘Good enough is good enough.’” Scala, the language where everyone is always complaining about its brainy functional mindset and lack of handholding tools, is now the terrible heir to C++ that will squander Rails’s 10x productive gain by being only a 2x language or framework (or whatever). { via }
n8han
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n8han
Jun 25
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technically.us, fixed. That is, set up at its new physical and IP addresses.
n8han
Jun 26
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OMG, Wicket 1.3.4 is out. Whoever kidnapped Martijn’s cats, please return them now that your demands have been met.
n8han
Jun 27
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The prick leagues: “If you’re thinking in terms of a couple hundred dollars, your app probably isn’t even going to get listed in the App Store. The App Store isn’t going to be like VersionTracker or MacUpdate, where every piece of junk gets listed as it’s submitted.” Awesome, can’t wait to have nothing to do with Apple’s corporatist wet nightmare of the future of installable software. One HP Mini-Note, please!
n8han
Jun 27
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The Pig Leagues: “I seriously hope Gruber did not mean what he said, or that I am reading meaning into it where there is none. My app ThisService, which I wrote principally for him by request, has to date made less than $100 through donations. Is John suggesting that it is junk, or that junk that is free should be accepted?” Oh, the irony. But as long as S.J. likes the Crap Store ”just the way it is,” don’t expect dissent from his most popular lackey. Next item… the prig leagues! { previously }
n8han
Jun 29
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Databinder 1.2.0 has arrived, the version that declares its independence from Hibernate. Now you can download template applications for Wicket with Hibernate, ActiveObjects, or Cayenne. Support for each one is provided in separate, organically grown modules. (Don’t panic.)
n8han
Jun 30
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