According to this Infoworld article, Sun is finally addressing some of the big issues with their VM. I posted a couple of weeks back about how the Java community is re-learning why people did things the old way. Hopefully the Java researchers will figure out how to deliver Java as an os, but I think it will take a while to get it right. They will probably ship this in a year (ie. ages on the internet timeframe).
My advice to web devs: Just use PHP. It’s good enough.
Today was a great radio day. I usually scan 5 or 6 stations looking for something decent to listen to on the commute into work. I usually quickly go through a few of the lcoal college stations and Forum by Michael Krazny on NPR. Occasionally I listen to the other NPR station since they play Fresh Air at that time. Then, if all seems ho-hum, I listen to the news on Howard Stern and scan around for some decent music on the upper end of the dial.
For whatever reason, today, Live 105, KITS, here in the Bay Area had a DJ playing old Happy Mondays tunes from the late-late 1980’s instead of the usuall Howard Stern. Not only did they play the old tunes, but they played the good old remixes from that timeframe. The commute seemed to short. What a difference some good music makes.
(Other side note: a couple of mornings back, one of the college DJ’s was playing some old Electro that I have never heard before. Pretty damn cool. I mean its not hard to be distinctive from the regular radio rotations by playing a music genre that never gets played. BTW, IMHO, I think the Santa Clara University college station, KSCU, is the best of the crowd. It’s a shame their transmitter is so weak.)
Unit Testing support should be included with all versions of Visual Studio 2005 and not just with Team System.
If you want to read more about this, go here.
The Unit Testing stuff in the new Visual Studio looks awesome, and is something that could easily be a foundation piece for all versions. In other words, the architect and team versions do not depend on this feature to define them.
I am not a big NUnit, or Unit Testing guy. However, when I have used it in my Python code, it has saved me time and time again. I think it is rapidly becoming one of those essential things that all programmer IDE packages will have.
FROM THE WSJ: Could It Be … Satan? About 150 animals died in a fire that consumed the A-Dora-ble Pet Shop and several other businesses in Frankfort, Indiana, last October, but one survived. The red-ear slider turtle might simply have been lucky; that’s his name, after all, Lucky. But shop owner Bryan Dora has a different theory, pointing out that, since the fire — the causes of which still haven’t been determined — Lucky’s dark shell has developed what appears to be an image of Satan, replete with pointy horns and a goatee. Though Lucky seems to be doing fine, health-wise, since the fire, he also may be a crawling advertisement for the Prince of Darkness. “[Lucky] was saved for a reason,” Mr. Dora told the Associated Press. “Everything else had perished, even the other turtles; and I think that reason is basically to let people know that he [Satan] was down there.” Mr. Dora has produced a DVD telling Lucky’s story, which he plans to sell on the Internet. He also plans to auction off Lucky.
picture of lucky:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/11172215.htm
Could this be a battle between a cheese sandwhich and a turtle to determine the fate of humanity?
http://code.google.com/ is a new google site that releases some of their open source projects. So far, I don’t think it will be seen as useful to a lot of developers out there since these packages are fairly low-level, performance intense libraries (in fact heavily C++ biased). Great stuff for those of us interested in open source AND high quality code. For example, their TCMalloc looks really good.
As the weather changes to become warmer, our state flower, the California Poppy starts to bloom. I find it to be a really nice plant that has a very orange and distinctive flower. There is even a park here that is a reserve for the flower. Although I’ve seen the flower starting to bloom in a lot more places, I haven’t seen it come out in force (where it literally covers huge swaths like in that link above) on the Edgewood trail park.
(The above pictures were taken with my camera phone)
Wow. What a great movie. A funny martial arts movie… with dancing. Really Entertaining. I highly recommend it.
