bdittmer

Heh, I was just arguing with a friend who claimed that the Yankees winning was one of the few "successes" of capitalism this year. I quickly pointed out how inefficient they are as a team (using payroll/championships as the metric) and what they accomplished can hardly be considered a success.

Heh, if a java developer is worth his salt he will eventually be using idea. It's heads and shoulders above every other Java IDE out there.

Versus the (previously) most overrated team in the pac-10 :)

Checkout www.browsermob.com. They offer essentially the same service and let you try it out first.

What about the fundamental freedom to do what you please with your own creation? Stallman never talks about that freedom.

Did no one else anticipate this? Lots of other people have been doing this for awhile (mono foundation, unity, gambit scheme, etc.). Is this a game changer? Yes. It opens up the door to tons of developers. Will applications written in actionscript still have the same shortcomings as the other aforementioned languages? Probably. Looking at the AS apps in the store right now they all have larger than expected file sizes. Additionally I don't see any of them taking advantage of any of the latest API features rolled out in iPhoneOS v3. Each time Apple releases a new iPhone OS version (with all of the API changes/additions) all of these tools need to be updated and re-released. Moral of the story? If you want to take advantage of the latest API features and remain on the cutting edge of iPhone development it's best to stick with objective-c.

I find that this is the case with most articles posted on alternet.org.

I was wondering the exact same thing. That BA in a philosophy wasn't such a good idea after all, eh skippy? :D

You're slicing hairs here, was this really necessary?

Same.

And the person I was responding to deleted his/her post.

How is this not hacker news? Nmap is the port scanner / network security audit tool that everyone uses. It's a tested and true, classic piece of software.

http://nmap.org/images/matrix/reload_nmap_f.jpg

IT WAS IN THE FREAKING MATRIX!

I hate AT&T as much as the next iPhone owner but is this really something they need to concern themselves with?

Two points:

1. Does it matter? If it works and it's reliable (Spring has always fulfilled both of these requirements for me) then who cares what you call it?

2. You could build the same system in OCaml but good luck finding developers to work on it. Plus I don't know what kind of "enterprise" (database/web services/etc) support it has.

Coffee in the morning, tea in the afternoon. Best of both worlds :D

There are times I wish we could down vote submitted stories. This is one of them.

I don't think I was being hostile, just trying to inform. Down mod away though...

Ugh, not to be nit picky but it drives me crazy when people use i.e. incorrectly. What you actually wanted to use here is e.g. Here is a link that discusses the differences and how to use them both correctly: http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/abbreviations/f/ievseg.ht...

Did you read the article? He's talking about internal engineering efforts, not gathering requirements and general interactions with the customer.

I really wish the submitter would have just linked to the blog post here: http://shohagsust.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/unity-iphone-game....

I'm building an iPhone app with Unity3d right now and it's actually been a real pleasure. It makes building real 3D games dead simple.

I have a few apps that still run on 5.0.28. There seems to be some weird memory leaks in this version that require the tomcat process to be cycled about once a week but other than that it's pretty rock solid.

Field Runners definitely has increased my daily restroom time.

We use ant to accomplish the same thing.

This is transparency after the fact. The actual bill was only available for review for something like 10 hours before it was voted on and passed. 1100 pages in 10 hours? Great.

This information should available on ALL bills at least a week before the bill is voted on by congress. I for one am appalled at how this thing was driven through.

The reports of "raping and pillaging" during the Katrina crisis were vastly over exaggerated by the media.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/36327.html

I mean, the reporting was really over the top.

A quick google search turned up this company: http://www.mercdev.com/technologies/mac_os_development/

and they seem to have a pretty extensive client list: http://www.mercdev.com/our_clients/client_list/

Hrmmm...interesting but I'm not sure how useful this is. I do all my development on a machine with an internet connection and full-sized browser. Although I can see this helping settle bar bets related to certain aspects of the jquery api :D

Like your experience with Helma, Grails has also been a breath of fresh air. My biggest gripe with building web apps in Java is dealing with all the dependencies, setting up a project structure and making all the frameworks play nicely together...with grails none of those headaches exist...all the stuff you'd usually use is integrated nicely into a project and with almost zero configuration. The community is very responsive and new plugins are released on a weekly basis. I definitely recommend any Java developers out there take a look.

Grails (http://www.grails.org). A rails inspired Groovy framework that uses big boy frameworks (Hibernate, Spring, etc.) under the hood.

I'd like to hear some of your experiences using helma!