Evil Open Source
In my personal top ten on open source software initiative with some original sin inside them. Note: this is not a negative review, is only a snapshot of the world …
Changing Eclipse JVM
Sometimes Eclipse Ganymede will not run if it is unable to find a jdk 1.5 or greater. Sometimes Eclipse Ganymede hangs abruptly if you delete the jdk it was using …
Dynamic languages troubles
I have read http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/chandler-failure and I think it is very danger way of exposing concepts.
In the article pointed out, the quite dead Chandler project is compared to the multi-billion Eclipse project. And then a too easy analysis is done against dynamic languages, where Java is the absolute winner.
I will try to fix some of the things said there, and to add also my two cents here :)
Will Zend slash rubyonrails?
Let the Zend Framework introduce itself as a Borg would do: "Hi dear RubyOnRails. Hi all. I am the Zend Framework, a small work (about 5 tons of code) done …